OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Fracture is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Recent advances on size effect in metal fatigue under defects: a review	45
Nucleation under multi-axial loading in variational phase-field models of brittle fracture	29
Fatigue fracture morphology of AISI H13 steel obtained by additive manufacturing	27
An efficient implementation of a phase field model for fatigue crack growth	22
Adaptive modelling of dynamic brittle fracture - a combined phase field regularized cohesive zone model and scaled boundary finite element approach	21
Fracture surface formation of notched 2017A-T4 aluminium alloy under bending fatigue	21
Fatigue crack growth behaviour of wire and arc additively manufactured ER70S-6 low carbon steel components	20
Uncertainty quantification in fatigue crack-growth predictions	18
Viscoelastic phase-field fracture using the framework of representative crack elements	17
Mechanisms controlling fracture toughness of additively manufactured stainless steel 316L	16
Finite element simulation of ductile fracture in polycrystalline materials using a regularized porous crystal plasticity model	16
Multi-adaptive spatial discretization of bond-based peridynamics	16
Coupling a discrete twin model with cohesive elements to understand twin-induced fracture	15
Fatigue behaviour of laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) Ti–6Al–4V, Al–Si–Mg and stainless steels: a brief overview	15
Fatigue life prediction of notched components under size effect using stress gradient-based approach	14
The revisited phase-field approach to brittle fracture: application to indentation and notch problems	13
A theory of viscoelastic crack growth: revisited	12
Compressive-shear fracture model of the phase-field method coupled with a modified Hoek–Brown criterion	12
Variational fracture: twenty years after	12
Experimental and theoretical characterization of mixed mode brittle failure from square holes	12
Modelling the nucleation and propagation of cracks at twin boundaries	12
Quasi-static anti-plane shear crack propagation in nonlinear strain-limiting elastic solids using phase-field approach	12
Determination of fracture energy (mode I) in the inverse fiber metal laminates using experimental–numerical approach	11
A hybrid phase field method for modeling thermal fractures in brittle rocks: fracture diversity from a modified driving force	11
A new quadrature algorithm consisting of volume and integral domain corrections for two-dimensional peridynamic models	11

Mode II fracture characterization of toughened epoxy resin composites	11
Role of defects on the high cycle fatigue behavior of selective laser melted Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy	11
A machine learning based sensitivity analysis of the GTN damage parameters for dynamic fracture propagation in X70 pipeline steel	10
Overview of three-dimensional linear-elastic fracture mechanics	10
Lengthscale effects in optical strain measurement for fracture characterization in simple shear	10
Energetically motivated crack orientation vector for phase-field fracture with a directional split	10
A particle interaction-based crack model using an improved smoothed particle hydrodynamics for fatigue crack growth simulations	9
Structural integrity of shot peened Ti6Al4V specimens under fretting fatigue	9
Three-dimensional modeling of fracture in quasi-brittle materials using plasticity and cohesive finite elements	9
Machine learning assisted detection and localization of mechanical discontinuity	9
Effect of heat treatments and loading orientation on the tensile properties and fracture toughness of AlSi7Mg alloy produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion	9
Beam network model for fracture of materials with hierarchical microstructure	8
Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture propagation in shale with plastic deformation	8
Scale effects in the post-cracking behaviour of fibre-reinforced concrete beams	8
Electrical and mechanical behaviour of metal thin films with deformation-induced cracks predicted by computational homogenisation	8
Phase field modeling of diamond-silicon carbide ceramic composites with tertiary grain boundary phases	8
Analytical corrections for double-cantilever beam tests	8
3D characterisation of hydrogen environmentally assisted cracking during static loading of AA7449-T7651	8
Simulation of dynamic brittle and quasi-brittle fracture: a revisited local damage approach	8
Adaptive multi-scale beam lattice method for competitive trans-scale crack growth simulation of heterogeneous concrete-like materials	8
Mode I fatigue limit of notched structures: A deeper insight into Finite Fracture Mechanics	8
Crack tip fields in anisotropic planes: a review	8
A simplified modelling of hydraulic fractures in elasto-plastic materials	8
Continuum damage modeling of dynamic crack velocity, branching, and energy dissipation in brittle materials	7
Interaction of crack and hole: effects on crack trajectory, crack driving force and fracture toughness	7
Relating matrix stress to local stress on a hard microstructural inclusion for understanding cleavage fracture in high strength steel	7
On the loss of symmetry in toughness dominated hydraulic fractures	7
Propagation mechanism of the hydraulic fracture in layered-fractured-plastic formations	7
A coupled axisymmetric peridynamics with correspondence material model for thermoplastic and ductile fracture problems	7
Crack propagation in gradient nano-grained metals with extremely small grain size based on molecular dynamic simulations	7
The J-integral for mixed-mode loaded cracks with cohesive zones	7
A multi-resolution approach to hydraulic fracture simulation	7
A phase-field approach to pneumatic fracture with anisotropic crack resistance	7
Fatigue crack separation and merging simulation using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics	7
Elasto-plastic fracture criterion for structural components with sharp V-shaped notches	7
Dynamic fracture analysis in Brazilian test: application to pharmaceutical tablets	6
On the fracture toughness of shape memory alloys	6
The effects of the microstructural characteristics of Fe–0.33C–1.2Mn–xNb–xMo steels on hydrogen embrittlement fracture	6
Influence of self-weight on size effect of quasi-brittle materials: generalized analytical formulation and application to the failure of irregular masonry arches	6
Stable and unstable viscoelastic crack growth: experimental validation of nonlinear theory for rubber	6
A phase-field-cohesive-zone framework to simulate multiple failure mechanisms of elastoplastic fiber-reinforced composites	6
Configurational force based analysis of creep crack growth	6
Investigation of mixed-mode fracture of aligned steel fibre reinforced cementitious composites	6
The J-area integral applied in peridynamics	6
Fatigue crack growth analysis of hydrogel by using peridynamics	6
Theoretical assessment of ELS test data reduction technique using virtual testing	5
Effect of hydrogen isotopes on tensile and fracture properties of Zr–2.5Nb pressure tube material	5
A non-iterative parameter identification procedure for the non-local Gurson–Tvergaard–Needleman model based on standardized experiments	5
Mixed-mode stress intensity factors computation in functionally graded materials using a hypercomplex-variable finite element formulation	5
Numerical prediction of fatigue crack growth based on cumulative plastic strain versus experimental results for AA6082-T6	5

Towards brittle materials with tailored fracture properties: the decisive influence of the material disorder and its microstructure	5
A fatigue life evaluation method for notched geometries considered the stress gradient concept	5
Ductile tearing of aluminium plates: experiments and modelling	5
Fracture mechanics based residual life prediction of railway heavy coupler with measured load spectrum	5
Torsion of an elastic medium containing a nanosized penny-shaped crack with surface effects	5
Tension-softening constitutive relation and numerical simulation method for mode I fatigue crack propagation in concrete	5
Statistical analysis of acoustic emission avalanches generated during the compressive fracture process, and Mode I fracture process in cementitious composites	5
Gradient damage model for ductile fracture introducing degradation of damage hardening modulus: implementation and experimental investigations	5
An analysis of deformation and failure in rectangular tensile bars accounting for void shape changes	5