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Dynamic crack propagation with a variational phase-field model: limiting speed, crack branching and velocity-toughening mechanisms

Jean-François Molinari, Jérémy Bleyer

We address the simulation of dynamic crack propagation in brittle materials using a regularized phase-field description, which can also be interpreted as a damage-gradient model. Benefiting from a variational framework, the dynamic evolution of the mechani ...

2017

Dynamic fragmentation of a ring: Predictable fragment mass distributions

Jean-François Molinari, Anthony Christopher Davison, Sarah Levy

We employ a finite element framework, coupled to cohesive elements, to model material decohesion of a uniformly expanding ring. Our study focuses on the average fragment mass, the distribution of fragment masses, and the heaviest fragments. The computed fr ...

American Physical Society2010

Molecular dynamics nano-scratching of aluminium: a novel quantitative energy-based analysis method

Jean-François Molinari, Till Junge

Atomistic models for friction suffer from the severe length- and time-scale restrictions of molecular dynamics. Even when they yield good qualitative results, it is difficult to draw meaningful quantitative conclusions from them. In this paper, a novel app ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

A new formulation for imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions on non-matching meshes

Jean-François Molinari, Aurelia Isabel Cuba Ramos

Generating matching meshes for problems with complex boundaries is often an intricate process, and the use of non-matching meshes appears as an appealing solution. Yet, enforcing boundary conditions on non-matching meshes is not a straightforward process, ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Accompanying data for the paper "Two-scale concurrent simulations for crack propagation using FEM-DEM bridging coupling" : Mode-II

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Manon Eugénie Voisin--Leprince

Contributions Manon Voisin--Leprince: Contributed to writing scripts, launching simulations, and analyzing results Joaquin Garcia-Suarez: Contributed to helping analyze results Guillaume Anciaux: Contributed to supervising the project Jean-François M ...

Zenodo2024

Modeling Creeping Flow through a Closed Crack with a Self-Affine Geometry and an Extension to Permeability of Cracked Media, Poromechanics VI

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Vladislav Yastrebov

To model a creeping flow through closed cracks in cracked materials we study a normal mechanical contact between two elastic half-spaces with rough surfaces is studied. The roughness is modeled using a filtering technique in Fourier space: the root mean sq ...

2017

How roughness emerges on natural and engineered surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Ramin Aghababaei

Roughness, defined as unevenness of material surfaces, plays an important role in determining how engineering components or natural objects interact with other bodies and their environment. The emergence of fractal roughness on natural and engineered surfa ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2023

A finite geometry, inertia assisted coarsening-to-complexity transition in homogeneous frictional systems

Jean-François Molinari, Thibault Didier Roch

The emergence of statistical complexity in frictional systems (where nonlinearity and dissipation are confined to an interface), manifested in broad distributions of various observables, is not yet understood. We study this problem in velocity-driven, homo ...

2024

Normal adhesive contact on rough surfaces: efficient algorithm for FFT-based BEM resolution

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Valentine Ginette Madeleine Rey

We introduce a numerical methodology to compute the solution of an adhesive normal contact problem on rough surfaces with the Boundary Element Method. Based on the Fast Fourier Transform and the Westergaard’s fundamental solution, the proposed algorithm en ...

2017

Role of Minimum Adhesive Wear Particle Size in Third-Body Layer Properties

Jean-François Molinari, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba

We employ a novel discrete element method (DEM) force formulation to simulate adhesive wear and assess the effects of material and loading parameters on the properties of the third-body layer (TBL) formed during sliding motion. The study emphasizes the rol ...

2023

Supershear bursts in the propagation of a tensile crack in linear elastic material

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras

Since the early years of the linear elastic theory of fracture [linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM)], scientists have sought to understand and predict how fast cracks grow in a material or slip fronts propagate along faults. While shear cracks can tra ...

2018

On the Propagation of Slip Fronts at Frictional Interfaces

Jean-François Molinari, David Simon Kammer, Vladislav Yastrebov, Peter Spijker

The dynamic initiation of sliding at planar interfaces between deformable and rigid solids is studied with particular focus on the speed of the slip front. Recent experimental results showed a close relation between this speed and the local ratio of shear ...

Springer US2012

Avalanches in dry and saturated disordered media at fracture

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Okan Yilmaz

This paper analyzes fracturing in inhomogeneous media under dry and fully saturated conditions. We adopt a central force model with continuous damage to study avalanche behavior in a two-dimensional truss lattice undergoing dilation. Multiple fractures can ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

The role of the roughness spectral breadth in elastic contact of rough surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Vladislav Yastrebov

We study frictionless and non-adhesive contact between elastic half-spaces with self-affine surfaces. Using a recently suggested corrective technique, we ensure an unprecedented accuracy in computation of the true contact area evolution under increasing pr ...

2017

A hierarchical detection framework for computational contact mechanics

Jean-François Molinari

A novel methodology consisting of three hierarchical levels is proposed for the detection phase of contact mechanics simulations. The top level of the hierarchy uses kinematic information from the objects involved in the simulation to determine approximate ...

Elsevier2014

The emergence of crack-like behavior of frictional rupture: Edge singularity and energy balance

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Thibault Didier Roch

The failure of frictional interfaces - the process of frictional rupture - is widely assumed to feature crack-like properties, with far-reaching implications for various disciplines, ranging from engineering tribology to earthquake physics. An important co ...

ELSEVIER2020

Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics Predicts the Propagation Distance of Frictional Slip

Jean-François Molinari, David Simon Kammer, Mathilde Edmée Lucette Radiguet de la Bastaie

When a frictional interface is subject to a localized shear load, it is often (experimentally) observed that local slip events propagate until they arrest naturally before reaching the edge of the interface. We develop a theoretical model based on linear e ...

Springer/Plenum Publishers2015

A story of two transitions: From adhesive to abrasive wear and from ductile to brittle regime

Jean-François Molinari, Sacha Zenon Wattel

Atomistic simulations performed with a family of model potential with tunable hardness have proven to be a great tool for advancing the understanding of wear processes at the asperity level. They have been instrumental in finding a critical length scale, w ...

2024

Avalanches in dry and saturated disordered media at fracture in shear and mixed mode scenarios

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Okan Yilmaz

We investigate shear and mixed mode fracture scenarios in inhomogeneous dry and fully saturated porous media with a 2D central force lattice model. For the fully saturated case we adopt the extended Biot's theory. The bars of the lattice break only under t ...

Elsevier2017

Adhesive wear mechanisms in the presence of weak interfaces: Insights from an amorphous model system

Jean-François Molinari, Tobias Brink

Engineering wear models are generally empirical and lack connections to the physical processes of debris generation at the nanoscale to microscale. Here, we thus analyze wear particle formation for sliding interfaces in dry contact with full and reduced ad ...

2019