Fracture Mechanics

• Main Author: Zehnder, Alan T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 62
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Mechanics.; Continuum mechanics.; Structural materials.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Structural Materials.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Fracture mechanics is a vast and growing field. This book develops the basic elements needed for both fracture research and engineering practice. The emphasis is on continuum mechanics models for energy flows and crack-tip stress- and deformation fields in elastic and elastic-plastic materials. In a...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• List of Acronyms
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Linear Elastic Stress Analysis of 2D Cracks
• 3 Energy Flows in Elastic Fracture
• 4 Criteria for Elastic Fracture
• Determining K and G
• 6 Fracture Toughness Tests
• 7 Elastic Plastic Fracture: Crack Tip Fields
• 8 Elastic Plastic Fracture: Energy and Applications
• Index.