A FLEXIBLE COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR A HIGH-PERFORMANCE EXTENSION OF A QUASI-STATIC PHASE-FIELD MODELING TO A DYNAMIC REGIME

The dynamic aspect of crack propagation is a topic of deep interest in material science. The phase field fracture modeling has shown encouraging results in a dynamic framework but remains challenging in terms of the time discretization resolution. Though the implicit time integration methods are mainly used in the literature, they become limiting in nonlinear problems due to the resolution of the system of equations required. Thus, explicit time integration schemes are an alternative to avoid these massive matrix operations. This paper presents the approaches set up to adapt the coupled formulation to a full explicit time integration for both equations.
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