A Benchmark Problem for Brittle Fracture: V-notched specimen

A 3D benchmark problem for crack propagation in brittle fracture. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 364, 112905.

The following experimental and numerical data is provided for validation purposes: - for comparison of the fracture surfaces, point clouds of the fractured specimen no. 6 (30°) and specimen no. 8 (45°) are provided as ’.ply’ files (crackSurface_pointCloud.zip) - the numerical crack surfaces obtained with the phase-field model presented in Section 4.3 are provided for all three inclination angles as ’.stl’ files (crackSurface_computed.zip) - the numerical load-displacement data is provided (load-displacement-data.xlsx)