The RTG (Research Training Group) FRASCAL aims to improve understanding of fracture behaviour in brittle heterogeneous materials by developing simulation methods that are able to capture the multiscale nature of failure. This requires methods and expertise from mechanics, materials science, mathematics, chemistry, and physics. Integrating this diverse set of tools into an overarching, interdisciplinary approach is necessary to fracture processes in different – and in particular heterogeneous – materials at various length and time resolutions

FRASCAL constitutes a joint effort of 12 research groups at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and is supported by the German Research Foundation as GRK 2423. The FRASCAL Zenodo community will make available the collected results of the project. This ranges from preprints, presentations and posters to data sets and accompanying input model files as well as source codes for analysis and data generation.

For more information on the project and its members, please visit https://www.frascal.research.fau.eu/.