During the initial stages of hydrogen environmentally assisted cracking (HEAC), including crack incubation, initiation and microstructurally short cracking, geometrical configuration microstructure greatly influences growth behaviour. Therefore, there is a big incentive to generate model which can replicate intergranular HEAC at microstructural scale. This report provides general framework impl...

A well-controlled and minimal experimental scheme for dynamic fracture along weak planes is specifically designed for the validation of large-scale simulations using cohesive finite elements. The role of the experiments in the integrated approach is two-fold. On the one hand, careful measurements provide accurate boundary conditions and material parameters for a complete setup of the simulation...