A 3D coupled thermo-visco-elastic shear-lag formulation for the prediction of residual stresses in photovoltaic modules after lamination

A 3D finite strain model for intralayer and interlayer crack simulation coupling the phase field approach and cohesive zone model

A Generalized Electric Model for Mono and Polycrystalline Silicon in the Presence of Cracks and Random Defects

A Mathematical Analogy and a Unified Asymptotic Formulation for Singular Elastic and Electromagnetic Fields at Multimaterial Wedges

A cohesive crack model coupled with damage for interface fatigue problems

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A computational framework for the interplay between delamination and wrinkling in functionally graded thermal barrier coatings

A consistent interface element formulation for geometrical and material nonlinearities ⬇️

A coupled cohesive zone model for transient analysis of thermoelastic interface debonding ⬇️

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A dimensional analysis interpretation to grain size and loading frequency dependencies of the Paris and Wöhler curves

A finite element framework for the interplay between delamination and buckling of rubber-like bi-material systems and stretchable electronics

A fractal interpretation of size-scale effects on strength, friction and fracture energy of faults

A generalisation of the Hillerborg's model for the analytical evaluation of ductility of RC beams in bending

A geometrical multi-scale numerical method for coupled hygro-thermo-mechanical problems in photovoltaic laminates

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A global/local approach for the prediction of the electric response of cracked solar cells in photovoltaic modules under the action of mechanical loads

A modeling framework for electro-mechanical interaction between excitable deformable cells

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A multi-physics and multi-scale numerical approach to microcracking and power-loss in photovoltaic modules

A multiscale approach for the seismic analysis of concrete gravity dams

A new analytical critical thrust force model for delamination analysis of laminated composites during drilling operation

A nonlinear finite thickness cohesive interface element for modeling delamination in fibre-reinforced composite laminates

A nonlocal adaptive discrete empirical interpolation method combined with modified hp-refinement for order reduction of molecular dynamics systems

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A nonlocal cohesive zone model for finite thickness interfaces – Part I: Mathematical formulation and validation with molecular dynamics

A nonlocal cohesive zone model for finite thickness interfaces – Part II: FE implementation and application to polycrystalline materials

A numerical approach to modelling size effects on the flexural ductility of RC beams

A numerical investigation of the interplay between cohesive cracking and plasticity in polycrystalline materials

article by Marco Paggi et al published September 2013 in Computational Materials Science

A power and energy procedure in operating photovoltaic systems to quantify the losses according to the causes

A reaction-diffusion formulation to simulate EVA polymer degradation in environmental and accelerated ageing conditions

A theoretical approach to the interaction between buckling and resonance instabilities

A thermo-visco-elastic shear-lag model for the prediction of residual stresses in photovoltaic modules after lamination

A three dimensional adaptive multiscale method for crack growth in Silicon

A top-down approach for the prediction of hardness and toughness of hierarchical materials

A two parameter elasto-plastic formulation for hardening pressure-dependent materials

A unified fractal approach for the interpretation of the anomalous scaling laws in fatigue and comparison with existing models

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A unified interface constitutive law for the study of fracture and contact problems in heterogeneous materials

A unified interpretation of the power laws in fatigue and the analytical correlations between cyclic properties of engineering materials

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A variational approach with embedded roughness for adhesive contact problems

Acoustic emission monitoring and numerical modeling of FRP delamination in RC beams with non-rectangular cross-section

Adhesive behaviour of bonded paper layers: Mechanical testing and statistical modelling

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An Accurate Thermoviscoelastic Rheological Model for Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Based on Fractional Calculus

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An Analytical Model Based on Strain Localisation for the Study of Size-Scale and Slenderness Effects in Uniaxial Compression Tests

An Electric Model of Cracked Solar Cells Accounting for Distributed Damage Caused by Crack Interaction

An analytical approach for fracture and fatigue in functionally graded materials

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An anisotropic large displacement cohesive zone model for fibrillar and crazing interfaces

An integrated cohesive/overlapping crack model for the analysis of flexural cracking and crushing in RC beams

Analysis of Snap-Back Instability due to End-Plate Debonding in Strengthened Beams

Analytical study of the singularities arising at multi-material interfaces in 2D linear elastic problems

Asymptotic analysis in Linear Elasticity: From the pioneering studies by Wieghardt and Irwin until today

Characterization of wave propagation in periodic viscoelastic materials via asymptotic-variational homogenization

Concurrently coupled solid shell-based adaptive multiscale method for fracture

Contact conductance of rough surfaces composed of modified RMD patches

Contact mechanics of microscopically rough surfaces with graded elasticity

Crack Patterns in Heterogenous Rocks Using a Combined Phase Field-Cohesive Interface Modeling Approach: A Numerical Study

article by José Reinoso et al published 13 March 2019 in Energies

Crack Propagation in Honeycomb Cellular Materials: A Computational Approach

Design of thermo-piezoelectric microstructured bending actuators via multi-field asymptotic homogenization

Dimensional Analysis and Fractal Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth

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Editorial of the Special Issue on the EUROMECH Colloquium 575

Evolution of the free volume between rough surfaces in contact ⬇️

Fatigue crack growth in Silicon solar cells and hysteretic behaviour of busbars

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Fatigue degradation and electric recovery in Silicon solar cells embedded in photovoltaic modules

scientific article published on 28 March 2014

Fiber-size effects on the onset of fiber–matrix debonding under transverse tension: A comparison between cohesive zone and finite fracture mechanics models

Flaw-tolerance of nonlocal discrete systems and interpretation according to network theory

Fractal and multifractal approaches for the analysis of crack-size dependent scaling laws in fatigue

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Fracture analysis of thin films on compliant substrates: A numerical study using the phase field approach of fracture

Fracture of solar-grade anisotropic polycrystalline Silicon: A combined phase field–cohesive zone model approach

From NASGRO to fractals: Representing crack growth in metals

Identification of Roughness with Optimal Contact Response with respect to Real Contact Area and Normal Stiffness

Identification of higher-order continua equivalent to a Cauchy elastic composite

Image analysis of polycrystalline solar cells and modelling of intergranular and transgranular cracking

Inclusion of “interaction” in the Greenwood and Williamson contact theory

Influence of the intermediate material on the singular stress field in trimaterial junctions

Inkjet printed 2D-crystal based strain gauges on paper

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Lagrange and his Mécanique Analytique: from Kantian noumenon to present applications

Lattice orientation and crack size effect on the mechanical properties of Graphene

Limits to Plastic Analysis due to Size-Scale Effects on the Rotational Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Cross Sections

Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics Approach to Plate End Debonding in Rectilinear and Curved Plated Beams

Long-term EVA degradation simulation: Climatic zones comparison and possible revision of accelerated tests

Mechanical properties of Graphene: Molecular dynamics simulations correlated to continuum based scaling laws

Micro-slip of rough surfaces under cyclic tangential loading

Model order reduction applied to heat conduction in photovoltaic modules

Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview

Modeling complex crack paths in ceramic laminates: A novel variational framework combining the phase field method of fracture and the cohesive zone model

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Modelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties

Modelling fatigue in quasi-brittle materials with incomplete self-similarity concepts

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Modelling strain localization by cohesive/overlapping zones in tension/compression: Brittleness size effects and scaling in material properties

Multi-field asymptotic homogenization of thermo-piezoelectric materials with periodic microstructure

New Model for the Analysis of Size-Scale Effects on the Ductility of Reinforced Concrete Elements in Bending

Node-to-segment and node-to-surface interface finite elements for fracture mechanics ⬇️

Non-linear thermoelastic analysis of thin-walled structures with cohesive-like interfaces relying on the solid shell concept

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Nonlinear fracture dynamics of laminates with finite thickness adhesives

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Numerical Modelling of Microcracking in PV Modules Induced by Thermo-mechanical Loads

Numerical analysis of fracture mechanisms and failure modes in bi-layered structural components

Numerical evaluation of generalized stress-intensity factors in multi-layered composites

Numerical modelling and validation of thermally-induced spalling

On the Asymptotic Stress Field in Angularly Nonhomogeneous Materials

On the Stress Singularities at Multimaterial Interfaces and Related Analogies With Fluid Dynamics and Diffusion

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On the dependency of the parameters of fatigue crack growth from the fractal dimension of rough crack profiles

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On the reliability of microscopical contact models

On the resolution dependence of micromechanical contact models

Optimization algorithms for the solution of the frictionless normal contact between rough surfaces

scholarly article by A. Bemporad & Marco Paggi published September 2015 in International Journal of Solids and Structures

PERCOLATION PROPERTIES OF THE FREE VOLUME GENERATED BY TWO ROUGH SURFACES IN CONTACT

Partial-slip frictional response of rough surfaces

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Partitioned coupling of advection–diffusion–reaction systems and Brinkman flows

Peeling of thick adhesive interfaces: The role of dynamics and geometrical nonlinearity

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Phase field modeling of brittle fracture for enhanced assumed strain shells at large deformations: formulation and finite element implementation

Predicting the long term power loss from cell cracks in PV modules

Recent advancements on the phase field approach to brittle fracture for heterogeneous materials and structures

scientific article published on 02 May 2018

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

Seismic Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams: Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics Models and Size-Scale Effects

Self-similarity and crack growth instability in the correlation between the Paris’ constants

Simulated hail impacts on flexible photovoltaic laminates: testing and modelling

Simulation of Spalling with a Non-planar Bi-layered Interface Due to the Reuse of the Substrate

Singular harmonic problems at a wedge vertex: mathematical analogies between elasticity, diffusion, electromagnetism, and fluid dynamics

Singular, hypersingular and singular free electromagnetic fields at wedge tips in metamaterials

Size-Scale Effects on Strength, Friction and Fracture Energy of Faults: A Unified Interpretation According to Fractal Geometry

Size-Scale Effects on the Friction Coefficient: From Weak Faults at the Planetary Scale to Superlubricity at the Nanoscale

Size-scale effects on interaction diagrams for reinforced concrete columns

Size-scale effects on the friction coefficient

Special Issue on EUROMECH 575

Special issue on computational methods for interface mechanical problems

scholarly article by Marco Paggi et al published 7 August 2012 in Computational Mechanics

Special issue on fracture and contact mechanics for interface problems

Special issue on “Recent Advances on the Mechanics of Materials”

Specimen shape and the problem of contact in the assessment of concrete compressive strength

Stiffness and strength of hierarchical polycrystalline materials with imperfect interfaces

Strength prediction of notched thin ply laminates using finite fracture mechanics and the phase field approach

Structural integrity of hierarchical composites

Surface-based and solid shell formulations of the 7-parameter shell model for layered CFRP and functionally graded power-based composite structures

The coefficient of proportionality κ between real contact area and load, with new asperity models

The effect of contact on the decohesion of laminated beams with multiple microcracks

The effect of crack size and specimen size on the relation between the Paris and Wöhler curves

The overlapping crack model for uniaxial and eccentric concrete compression tests

Thermo-elastic mismatch in nonhomogeneous beams

Thermomechanical deformations in photovoltaic laminates

Topological characterization of antireflective and hydrophobic rough surfaces: are random process theory and fractal modeling applicable?

Topology simulation and contact mechanics of bifractal rough surfaces*

Towards a Unified Approach for the Analysis of Failure Modes in FRP-Retrofitted Concrete Beams