Abstract

Progressive fracture in quasi-brittle materials such as concrete, rocks, soils, is often treated as strain softening in continuum damage mechanics. Such constitutive relations favour spurious strain localization and ill-posedness of boundary value problems, and call for some kind [...]

Abstract

As a program increases its size and complexity, it can rapidly turn into something pretty difficult to keep controlled and up-to-date, specially when the developing work is shared between an extensive group of people. Keeping this in mind, it is pretty straightforward to understand [...]