Coreform LLC STTR Phase II Award, December 2017

The purpose of this Phase II project is to develop computational modeling methods that are able to describe the propagation and interaction of fatigue cracks using the phase-field methodology within the numerical framework of isogeometric analysis (IGA). The resulting computational platform, while focused on fracture and fatigue, will be general, in that any phase-field method can be easily incorporated into the system. Of particular interest will be the development of high-performance isogeometric adaptivity algorithms in the context of complex Computer-Aided Design (CAD) geometry.