Numerical Assessments of Cracks in Elastic-Plastic Materials

• Main Author: Yuan, Huang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 4
• Subjects: Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Computational intelligence.; Solid Mechanics.; Classical Mechanics.; Computational Intelligence.

In this book a systematic discussion of crack problems in elastic-plastic materials is presented. The state of the art in fracture mechanics research and assessment of cracks is documented with the help of analytic, asymptotic methods as well as finite element computations. After a brief introductio...