A review of phase-field models, fundamentals and their applications to composite laminates

Innovations of advanced materials have been at the core of most engineering technologies, devices and systems. Composite laminates in particular have been extensively employed in many major and advanced industries including aircraft, maritime transport, and automobiles. Failure in composite structures is critical and often complicated, and that is the consequence of the evolution of and interactions among the constitutive fracture events (e.g.,...