A. Gustafsson

Phase-field cohesive zone models capture the nonlinear fracture behaviour of cortical bone: Calibration of material properties from fracture mechanics experiments.

In this work, an optimisation algorithm is employed to calibrate a quasi-brittle phase-field cohesive zone model against notched three-point bending experiments on bovine cortical bone using the force vs crack mouth opening displacement data. Calibration is performed both for individual specimens, to quantify parameter...