An open-source tool to simulate material fracture and fatigue – La Vélez

18 July, 2025

The magazine La Vélez has featured IMDEA Materials researcher Miguel Castillón for the development of his new computational tool to simulate material fracture and fatigue: PhaseFieldX.

You can read the complete article (original contents in Spanish), here.

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