Publications

Torres, D. E., T. Hu, A. J. Stershic, T. R. Shelton, and J. E. Dolbow. “A variational phase-field framework for thermal softening and dynamic ductile fracture.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 433 (January 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2024.117452.

Lopez-Pamies, O., J. E. Dolbow, G. A. Francfort, and C. J. Larsen. “Classical variational phase-field models cannot predict fracture nucleation.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 433 (January 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2024.117520.

Kamarei, F., J. E. Dolbow, and O. Lopez-Pamies. “Nucleation of Fracture: The First-Octant Evidence Against Classical Variational Phase-Field Models.” Journal of Applied Mechanics 92, no. 1 (January 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067146.

Saha, S., J. E. Dolbow, and O. Lopez-Pamies. “A Griffith description of fracture for non-monotonic loading with application to fatigue.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 191 (October 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105754.

Larsen, C. J., J. E. Dolbow, and O. Lopez-Pamies. “A variational formulation of Griffith phase-field fracture with material strength.” International Journal of Fracture 247, no. 3 (September 1, 2024): 319–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-024-00786-3.

Dolbow, John, and Oscar Lopez-Pamies. “Data from: A Griffith description of fracture for non-monotonic loading with application to fatigue,” July 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4wd4323c.

Liu, Y., P. Zhong, O. Lopez-Pamies, and J. E. Dolbow. “A model-based simulation framework for coupled acoustics, elastodynamics, and damage with application to nano-pulse lithotripsy.” International Journal of Solids and Structures 289 (March 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2023.112626.

Zhang, H., J. E. Dolbow, and J. Guilleminot. “Representing model uncertainties in brittle fracture simulations.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 418 (January 5, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116575.

Kumar, A., Y. Liu, J. E. Dolbow, and O. Lopez-Pamies. “The strength of the Brazilian fracture test.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 182 (January 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105473.

Xiang, Gaoming, Junqin Chen, Derek Ho, Georgy Sankin, Xuning Zhao, Yangyuanchen Liu, Kevin Wang, John Dolbow, Junjie Yao, and Pei Zhong. “Shock waves generated by toroidal bubble collapse are imperative for kidney stone dusting during Holmium:YAG laser lithotripsy.” Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 101 (December 2023): 106649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2023.106649.

Guével, A., Y. Meng, C. Peco, R. Juanes, and J. E. Dolbow. “A Darcy–Cahn–Hilliard model of multiphase fluid-driven fracture.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 181 (December 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105427.

Fei, F., A. Costa, J. E. Dolbow, R. R. Settgast, and M. Cusini. “A phase-field model for hydraulic fracture nucleation and propagation in porous media.” International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 47, no. 16 (November 1, 2023): 3065–89. https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.3612.

Costa, A., T. Hu, and J. E. Dolbow. “On formulations for modeling pressurized cracks within phase-field methods for fracture.” Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 127 (October 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2023.104040.

Liu, Yangyuanchen, Susanne Claus, Pierre Kerfriden, Junqin Chen, Pei Zhong, and John E. Dolbow. “Model-based simulations of pulsed laser ablation using an embedded finite element method.” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 204 (May 2023): 123843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.123843.

Fei, F., A. Costa, J. E. Dolbow, R. R. Settgast, and M. Cusini. “Phase-Field Simulation of Near-Wellbore Nucleation and Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS).” In Society of Petroleum Engineers SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference Rsc 2023, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2118/212251-MS.

Fei, F., A. Costa, J. E. Dolbow, R. R. Settgast, and M. Cusini. “Phase-field modeling of hydraulic fracturing under heterogeneities and/or layering of rock properties and in-situ stress.” In 57th US Rock Mechanics Geomechanics Symposium, 2023. https://doi.org/10.56952/ARMA-2023-0775.

Hu, T., J. E. Dolbow, and Z. Yosibash. “Towards validation of crack nucleation criteria from V-notches in quasi-brittle metallic alloys: Energetics or strength?” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 402 (December 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115419.

Costa, A., M. Cusini, T. Jin, R. Settgast, and J. E. Dolbow. “A multi-resolution approach to hydraulic fracture simulation.” International Journal of Fracture 237, no. 1–2 (September 1, 2022): 165–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-022-00662-y.

Talamini, B., M. R. Tupek, A. J. Stershic, T. Hu, J. W. Foulk, J. T. Ostien, and J. E. Dolbow. “Attaining regularization length insensitivity in phase-field models of ductile failure.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 384 (October 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.113936.

Geelen, R., J. Plews, and J. Dolbow. “Scale-bridging with the extended/generalized finite element method for linear elastodynamics.” Computational Mechanics 68, no. 2 (August 1, 2021): 295–310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-021-02032-2.

Hu, T., J. Guilleminot, and J. E. Dolbow. “A phase-field model of fracture with frictionless contact and random fracture properties: Application to thin-film fracture and soil desiccation.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 368 (August 15, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113106.

Geelen, R., J. Plews, M. Tupek, and J. Dolbow. “An extended/generalized phase-field finite element method for crack growth with global-local enrichment.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 121, no. 11 (June 15, 2020): 2534–57. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6318.

Jiang, W., B. W. Spencer, and J. E. Dolbow. “Ceramic nuclear fuel fracture modeling with the extended finite element method.” Engineering Fracture Mechanics 223 (January 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.106713.

Guilleminot, J., and J. E. Dolbow. “Data-driven enhancement of fracture paths in random composites.” Mechanics Research Communications 103 (January 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2019.103443.

Asareh, I., T. Y. Kim, J. H. Song, and J. E. Dolbow. “Corrigendum to “A linear complete extended finite element method for dynamic fracture simulation with non-nodal enrichments” [Finite Elem. Anal. Des. 152, 2018](S0168874X18305080)(10.1016/j.finel.2018.09.002).” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 157 (May 1, 2019): 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2019.01.006.