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  1. A variational method to wear with embedded roughness
  2. Additive-manufacturing repair towards restoring fatigue performance of metallic component: Experiment and phase-field model prediction
  3. Solving adhesive rough contact problems with Atomic Force Microscope data
  4. Nonlinear anisotropic hypo-elastic continuum models for paper materials and their relation to statistical micro-mechanics
  5. Computational Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Methods for the Prediction of Fracture Processes in Photovoltaic Systems
  6. A novel in-situ micro-mechanical testing of paper fracture and its stochastic network model
  7. In silico model of colon electromechanics for manometry prediction after laser tissue soldering
  8. Phase-field modelling of failure in ceramics with multiscale porosity
  9. SIMP Phase-field topology optimization framework to maximize fracture resistance in FGMs
  10. A coupled approach to predict cone-cracks in spherical indentation tests with smooth or rough indenters
  11. A coupled approach to predict cone-cracks in spherical indentation tests with smooth or rough indenters
  12. Tracing Old Gestures: A Multiscale Analysis of Ground Stone Tools Developed on Sequential Lab-Controlled Replicative Experiments
  13. Shaping Silver Nanoparticles’ Size through the Carrier Composition: Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activity
  14. Locking treatment of penalty-based gradient-enhanced damage formulation for failure of compressible and nearly incompressible hyperelastic materials
  15. A comprehensive characterization of fracture in unit cell open foams generated from Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces
  16. Hygro-thermo-mechanical modeling of thin-walled photovoltaic laminates with polymeric interfaces
  17. DELAMINATION BUCKLING IN FOUR-POINT BENDING TESTS – AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
  18. A phase field approach to fracture for hyperelastic and visco-hyperelastic materials applied to pre-stressed cylindrical structures
  19. A combined phase-field and cohesive zone model approach for crack propagation in layered structures made of nonlinear rubber-like materials
  20. Non-linear thermoelastic analysis of thin-walled structures with cohesive-like interfaces relying on the solid shell concept
  21. A computational framework for rheologically complex thermo-visco-elastic materials
  22. Simulation of bridging mechanisms in complex laminates using a hybrid PF-CZM method
  23. Viscoelastic Effects during Tangential Contact Analyzed by a Novel Finite Element Approach with Embedded Interface Profiles
  24. Mechanical characterization and failure modes in the peeling of adhesively bonded strips from a plastic substrate
  25. SPH Modelling of Dam-break Floods, with Damage Assessment to Electrical Substations
  26. An Analysis of the Italian Lockdown in Retrospective Using Particle Swarm Optimization in Machine Learning Applied to an Epidemiological Model
  27. Phase field model for fracture analysis of functionally graded power-based shell structures
  28. Micromechanics of engineered interphases in nacre-like composite structures
  29. A phase field approach enhanced with a cohesive zone model for modeling delamination induced by matrix cracking
  30. Nondestructive monitoring of damage caused by accelerated ageing in photovoltaic modules
  31. SPH Modelling of Hydrodynamic Lubrication along Rough Surfaces
  32. Hierarchical porosity inherited by natural sources affects the mechanical and biological behaviour of bone scaffolds
  33. Fracture analysis of thin films on compliant substrates: A numerical study using the phase field approach of fracture
  34. Crack Patterns in Heterogenous Rocks Using a Combined Phase Field-Cohesive Interface Modeling Approach: A Numerical Study
  35. Characterization of wave propagation in periodic viscoelastic materials via asymptotic-variational homogenization
  36. Identification of Roughness with Optimal Contact Response with respect to Real Contact Area and Normal Stiffness
  37. A variational approach with embedded roughness for adhesive contact problems
  38. A modeling framework for electro-mechanical interaction between excitable deformable cells
  39. Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview
  40. A three dimensional adaptive multiscale method for crack growth in Silicon
  41. Peeling of thick adhesive interfaces: the role of dynamics and geometrical nonlinearity
  42. Design of thermo-piezoelectric microstructured bending actuators via multi-field asymptotic homogenization
  43. Fatigue crack growth in Silicon solar cells and hysteretic behaviour of busbars
  44. Modeling complex crack paths in ceramic laminates: A novel variational framework combining the phase field method of fracture and the cohesive zone model
  45. Recent advancements on the phase field approach to brittle fracture for heterogeneous materials and structures
  46. Inkjet printed 2D-crystal based strain gauges on paper
  47. Fracture of solar-grade anisotropic polycrystalline Silicon: A combined phase field–cohesive zone model approach
  48. Surface-based and solid shell formulations of the 7-parameter shell model for layered CFRP and functionally graded power-based composite structures
  49. Long-term EVA degradation simulation: Climatic zones comparison and possible revision of accelerated tests
  50. A 3D finite strain model for intralayer and interlayer crack simulation coupling the phase field approach and cohesive zone model
  51. A nonlocal adaptive discrete empirical interpolation method combined with modified hp -refinement for order reduction of molecular dynamics systems
  52. Special issue on “Recent Advances on the Mechanics of Materials”
  53. A new analytical critical thrust force model for delamination analysis of laminated composites during drilling operation
  54. Partitioned coupling of advection–diffusion–reaction systems and Brinkman flows
  55. Strength prediction of notched thin ply laminates using finite fracture mechanics and the phase field approach
  56. Multi-field asymptotic homogenization of thermo-piezoelectric materials with periodic microstructure
  57. Identification of higher-order continua equivalent to a Cauchy elastic composite
  58. Revisiting the problem of a crack impinging on an interface:A modeling framework for the interaction between the phase field approach for brittle fracture and the interface cohesive zone model
  59. Concurrently coupled solid shell-based adaptive multiscale method for fracture
  60. A reaction-diffusion formulation to simulate EVA polymer degradation in environmental and accelerated ageing conditions
  61. Phase field modeling of brittle fracture for enhanced assumed strain shells at large deformations: formulation and finite element implementation
  62. A nonlinear finite thickness cohesive interface element for modeling delamination in fibre-reinforced composite laminates
  63. A global/local approach for the prediction of the electric response of cracked solar cells in photovoltaic modules under the action of mechanical loads
  64. A 3D coupled thermo-visco-elastic shear-lag formulation for the prediction of residual stresses in photovoltaic modules after lamination
  65. Mechanical properties of Graphene: Molecular dynamics simulations correlated to continuum based scaling laws
  66. A two parameter elasto-plastic formulation for hardening pressure-dependent materials
  67. Topology simulation and contact mechanics of bifractal rough surfaces*
  68. A finite element framework for the interplay between delamination and buckling of rubber-like bi-material systems and stretchable electronics
  69. An Electric Model of Cracked Solar Cells Accounting for Distributed Damage Caused by Crack Interaction
  70. Simulation of Spalling with a Non-planar Bi-layered Interface Due to the Reuse of the Substrate
  71. Simulated hail impacts on flexible photovoltaic laminates: testing and modelling
  72. Lattice orientation and crack size effect on the mechanical properties of Graphene
  73. Editorial of the Special Issue on the EUROMECH Colloquium 575
  74. A computational framework for the interplay between delamination and wrinkling in functionally graded thermal barrier coatings
  75. Node-to-segment and node-to-surface interface finite elements for fracture mechanics
  76. Special Issue on EUROMECH 575
  77. A geometrical multi-scale numerical method for coupled hygro-thermo-mechanical problems in photovoltaic laminates
  78. A thermo-visco-elastic shear-lag model for the prediction of residual stresses in photovoltaic modules after lamination
  79. From NASGRO to fractals: Representing crack growth in metals
  80. PERCOLATION PROPERTIES OF THE FREE VOLUME GENERATED BY TWO ROUGH SURFACES IN CONTACT
  81. Adhesive behaviour of bonded paper layers: Mechanical testing and statistical modelling
  82. Optimization algorithms for the solution of the frictionless normal contact between rough surfaces
  83. An anisotropic large displacement cohesive zone model for fibrillar and crazing interfaces
  84. Evolution of the free volume between rough surfaces in contact
  85. A power and energy procedure in operating photovoltaic systems to quantify the losses according to the causes
  86. Numerical modelling and validation of thermally-induced spalling
  87. Predicting the long term power loss from cell cracks in PV modules
  88. Topological characterization of antireflective and hydrophobic rough surfaces: are random process theory and fractal modeling applicable?
  89. An Accurate Thermoviscoelastic Rheological Model for Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Based on Fractional Calculus
  90. Model order reduction applied to heat conduction in photovoltaic modules
  91. Nonlinear fracture dynamics of laminates with finite thickness adhesives
  92. A consistent interface element formulation for geometrical and material nonlinearities
  93. Image analysis of polycrystalline solar cells and modelling of intergranular and transgranular cracking
  94. A Multi-Scale Numerical Method for the Study of Size-Scale Effects in Ductile Fracture
  95. Flaw-tolerance of nonlocal discrete systems and interpretation according to network theory
  96. Partial-slip frictional response of rough surfaces
  97. Fatigue degradation and electric recovery in Silicon solar cells embedded in photovoltaic modules
  98. The effect of crack size and specimen size on the relation between the Paris and Wöhler curves
  99. Thermal Contact Conductance of Rough Surfaces
  100. A Generalized Electric Model for Mono and Polycrystalline Silicon in the Presence of Cracks and Random Defects
  101. Fiber-size effects on the onset of fiber–matrix debonding under transverse tension: A comparison between cohesive zone and finite fracture mechanics models
  102. Lagrange and his Mécanique Analytique: from Kantian noumenon to present applications
  103. On the dependency of the parameters of fatigue crack growth from the fractal dimension of rough crack profiles
  104. A coupled cohesive zone model for transient analysis of thermoelastic interface debonding
  105. A numerical investigation of the interplay between cohesive cracking and plasticity in polycrystalline materials
  106. A multiscale approach for the seismic analysis of concrete gravity dams
  107. Numerical Modelling of Microcracking in PV Modules Induced by Thermo-mechanical Loads
  108. A multi-physics and multi-scale numerical approach to microcracking and power-loss in photovoltaic modules
  109. Modelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties
  110. Size-Scale Effects on the Friction Coefficient: From Weak Faults at the Planetary Scale to Superlubricity at the Nanoscale
  111. Special issue on computational methods for interface mechanical problems
  112. Modelling strain localization by cohesive/overlapping zones in tension/compression: Brittleness size effects and scaling in material properties
  113. Stiffness and strength of hierarchical polycrystalline materials with imperfect interfaces
  114. Crack Propagation in Honeycomb Cellular Materials: A Computational Approach
  115. Size-scale effects on interaction diagrams for reinforced concrete columns
  116. A cohesive crack model coupled with damage for interface fatigue problems
  117. Special Issue on Fracture and Contact Mechanics for Interface Problems
  118. Special issue on fracture and contact mechanics for interface problems
  119. Structural integrity of hierarchical composites
  120. Contact conductance of rough surfaces composed of modified RMD patches
  121. Thermomechanical deformations in photovoltaic laminates
  122. Contact mechanics of microscopically rough surfaces with graded elasticity
  123. Seismic Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams: Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics Models and Size-Scale Effects
  124. Singular harmonic problems at a wedge vertex: mathematical analogies between elasticity, diffusion, electromagnetism, and fluid dynamics
  125. A theoretical approach to the interaction between buckling and resonance instabilities
  126. A dimensional analysis interpretation to grain size and loading frequency dependencies of the Paris and Wöhler curves
  127. A nonlocal cohesive zone model for finite thickness interfaces – Part I: Mathematical formulation and validation with molecular dynamics
  128. A nonlocal cohesive zone model for finite thickness interfaces – Part II: FE implementation and application to polycrystalline materials
  129. Dimensional Analysis and Fractal Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth
  130. Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics Approach to Plate End Debonding in Rectilinear and Curved Plated Beams
  131. Modelling fatigue in quasi-brittle materials with incomplete self-similarity concepts
  132. A generalisation of the Hillerborg's model for the analytical evaluation of ductility of RC beams in bending
  133. Limits to Plastic Analysis due to Size-Scale Effects on the Rotational Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Cross Sections
  134. Singular, hypersingular and singular free electromagnetic fields at wedge tips in metamaterials
  135. An Analytical Model Based on Strain Localisation for the Study of Size-Scale and Slenderness Effects in Uniaxial Compression Tests
  136. The coefficient of proportionality κ between real contact area and load, with new asperity models
  137. An integrated cohesive/overlapping crack model for the analysis of flexural cracking and crushing in RC beams
  138. Analysis of Snap-Back Instability due to End-Plate Debonding in Strengthened Beams
  139. A Mathematical Analogy and a Unified Asymptotic Formulation for Singular Elastic and Electromagnetic Fields at Multimaterial Wedges
  140. A unified fractal approach for the interpretation of the anomalous scaling laws in fatigue and comparison with existing models
  141. A top-down approach for the prediction of hardness and toughness of hierarchical materials
  142. The overlapping crack model for uniaxial and eccentric concrete compression tests
  143. A unified interpretation of the power laws in fatigue and the analytical correlations between cyclic properties of engineering materials
  144. Towards a Unified Approach for the Analysis of Failure Modes in FRP-Retrofitted Concrete Beams
  145. Asymptotic analysis in Linear Elasticity: From the pioneering studies by Wieghardt and Irwin until today
  146. Fractal and multifractal approaches for the analysis of crack-size dependent scaling laws in fatigue
  147. New Model for the Analysis of Size-Scale Effects on the Ductility of Reinforced Concrete Elements in Bending
  148. A fractal interpretation of size-scale effects on strength, friction and fracture energy of faults
  149. A numerical approach to modelling size effects on the flexural ductility of RC beams
  150. One, no one, and one hundred thousand crack propagation laws: A generalized Barenblatt and Botvina dimensional analysis approach to fatigue crack growth
  151. Inclusion of “interaction” in the Greenwood and Williamson contact theory
  152. Thermo-elastic mismatch in nonhomogeneous beams
  153. On the Stress Singularities at Multimaterial Interfaces and Related Analogies With Fluid Dynamics and Diffusion
  154. The effect of contact on the decohesion of laminated beams with multiple microcracks
  155. Size-Scale Effects on Strength, Friction and Fracture Energy of Faults: A Unified Interpretation According to Fractal Geometry
  156. Numerical analysis of fracture mechanisms and failure modes in bi-layered structural components
  157. Specimen shape and the problem of contact in the assessment of concrete compressive strength
  158. Self-similarity and crack growth instability in the correlation between the Paris’ constants
  159. Reliability of Micromechanical Contact Models: a Still Open Issue
  160. Analytical study of the singularities arising at multi-material interfaces in 2D linear elastic problems
  161. On the resolution dependence of micromechanical contact models
  162. Acoustic emission monitoring and numerical modeling of FRP delamination in RC beams with non-rectangular cross-section
  163. An analytical approach for fracture and fatigue in functionally graded materials
  164. Numerical evaluation of generalized stress-intensity factors in multi-layered composites
  165. Influence of the intermediate material on the singular stress field in trimaterial junctions
  166. On the Asymptotic Stress Field in Angularly Nonhomogeneous Materials
  167. Size-scale effects on the friction coefficient
  168. On the reliability of microscopical contact models
  169. A Coupled Contact and Decohesion Analysis of Laminated Beams
  170. A unified interface constitutive law for the study of fracture and contact problems in heterogeneous materials
  171. Micro-slip of rough surfaces under cyclic tangential loading