Comprehensive implementations of phase-field damage models in Abaqus

Despite the versatility in modeling complex crack configurations, phase-field damage models for fracture usually count only on in-house codes, greatly restricting their potential applications. It is thus of vital importance to implement them in those commonly used commercial software packages like Abaqus. However, so far only the less robust Newton’s monolithic algorithm or the inefficient staggered solver has been considered. In this work,...