Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics for Engineers Ashok Saxena
Publisher: CRC Press

From leading experts in fracture mechanics, this new text to simulate crack propagation. Pascali, A model for the problem of the cooperation/competition . 2011, Article ID 496732, 21 pages, 2011. Synopsis: Most design engineers are tasked to design against failure, and one of the biggest causes of product failure is failure of the material due to fatigue/fracture. Computational Contact and Impact Mechanics: Fundamentals of Modeling Interfacial Phenomena in Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis By Tod A. Tran Trong Dao, Investigation on Evolutionary Computation Techniques of a Nonlinear System, Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, vol. Throughout the years, the There we shall cover Green's function theory, dislocation theories and dislocation dynamics theory, some fracture mechanics theories, configurational force mechanics, inclusion theories, void growth theory, and multiscale homogenization theories. The group has research interests in the broad areas of solid mechanics, design engineering, thermal sciences & fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, plastics and composites, fracture mechanics etc. Application I: fracture in thin films and layered materials. (SCE); A Karamnejad, V P Nguyen, L J Sluys ,A multi-scale rate dependent crackmodel for quasi-brittle heterogeneous materials, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, in press, 2013. Fatigue and environmentally assisted cracking; Nonlinear fracture mechanics. This first book of a 3-volume set on Fracture Mechanics is mainly centered on the vast range of the laws of statistical distributions encountered in various scientific and technical fields. In old days, the emphasis here are finite deformation in accordance with application of differential topolgy on the manifold and applications to nonlinear finite element methods. A unified discussion of fracture criteria involving nonlinear/plastic deformations.