A phase-field thermomechanical framework for modeling failure and crack evolution in glass panes under fire

This paper presents a novel phase-field thermomechanical modeling framework for predicting complicated behaviors of thermal cracking in glass panes under fire. The main idea is to incorporate the proposed mathematical model, which calculates the exact deformation of the mesh elements, into the variational phase-field model to simulate the thermal fracture behavior in glass panes in an effective manner. The developed model improves upon previous...