Failure and Damage Analysis of Advanced Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Altenbach, Holm (Editor), Sadowski, Tomasz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 560
• Subjects: Engineering.; Continuum mechanics.; Building repair.; Buildings > Repair and reconstruction.; Materials science.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Building Repair and Maintenance.

The papers in this volume present basic concepts and new developments in failure and damage analysis with focus on advanced materials such as composites, laminates, sandwiches and foams, and also new metallic materials. Starting from some mathematical foundations (limit surfaces, symmetry considerat...

Table of Contents:

• Classical and non-classical failure criteria
• Constitutive description of isotropic and anisotropic plasticity for metals
• Failure and damage in cellular materials
• Analytical methods of predicting performance of composite materials
• Analysis of failure in composite structures.