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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Roger Fosdick
• Preface
• A Variational Approach to Fracture and Other Inelastic Phenomena
• Bibliography
• Index.