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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Cracks under stationary conditions
• 2.1 Higher-order solutions for pressure-sensitive materials
• 2.2 Two-parameter characterizations for engineering materials
• 2.3 Effects of biaxial loads to plane stress cracks
• 2.4 Three-dimensional crack front fields
• 2.5 Remarks
• 3. Cracks under thermal-mechanical loading conditions
• 3.1 Characterization of cracks under high temperature gradients
• 3.2 Scaling of temperature-induced material inhomogeity
• 3.3 Effects of transient thermal loading
• 3.4 Remarks
• 4. Interface cracks
• 4.1 Stationary interface crack tip fields
• 4.2 Quasi-static crack growth
• 4.3 Dynamic interface crack growth
• 4.4 Remarks
• 5. Mixed mode crack propagation
• 5.1 Static crack growth under combined mode I and III conditions
• 5.2 Dynamic crack growth under combined mode I and III conditions
• 5.3 Remarks
• 6. Assessment of apex-V notches
• 6.1 Higher-order solutions for power-law hardening materials
• 6.2 Notches in pressure-sensitive materials
• 6.3 Remarks
• References.