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Farhad Kamarei

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Scholarly Papers (4)

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When and where do large cracks grow? Griffith energy competition constrained by material strength

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Aug 2025
Farhad Kamarei and Oscar Lopez-Pamies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 90 (753,595)

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Strength, Toughness, Flow and Fracture, Energy Methods

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Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture in Viscoelastic Elastomers: A Complete Phase-Field Theory

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Jun 2025
Farhad Kamarei, Evan Breedlove and Oscar Lopez-Pamies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 66 (907,769)
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Dissipative solids, Internal variables, Fracture, Strength, Cavitation

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Nine Circles of Elastic Brittle Fracture: A Series of Challenge Problems to Assess Fracture Models

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Nine Circles of Elastic Brittle Fracture: A Series of Challenge Problems to Assess Fracture Models

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Jul 2025
Farhad Kamarei, Bo Zeng, John E. Dolbow and Oscar Lopez-Pamies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Duke University, Duke University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 33 (1,311,254)

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strength, Toughness, Fracture nucleation, Fracture propagation, Experimental validation

Nine Circles of Elastic Brittle Fracture: A Series of Challenge Problems to Assess Fracture Models

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Aug 2025
Farhad Kamarei, Bo Zeng, John E. Dolbow and Oscar Lopez-Pamies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Duke University, Duke University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 24 (1,445,011)

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Strength, Toughness, Fracture nucleation, Fracture propagation, Experimental validation

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The Poker-Chip Experiments of Synthetic Elastomers

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Feb 2024
Farhad Kamarei, Aditya Kumar and Oscar Lopez-Pamies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 33 (1,290,922)
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Elastomers, Cavitation, fracture, Strength, Defects