A Variational Approach to Fracture and Other Inelastic Phenomena

• Main Author: Piero, Gianpietro Del (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Calculus of variations.; Continuum mechanics.; Materials science.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

This book exposes a number of mathematical models for fracture of growing difficulty. All models are treated in a unified way, based on incremental energy minimization. They differ from each other by the assumptions made on the inelastic part of the total energy, here called the "cohesive energ...