Overview
Today, Fracture Mechanics is a well known topic within the scientific community. Applications of Fracture Mechanics can be found in various fields ranging from solid mechanics and structures to materials sciences and computational mechanics. However, most of these results apply only to linear fracture mechanics of two-dimensional and homogeneous isotropic solids. Therefore there are still incompletely solved problems; such as non-linearity, frictional contact cracks, residual stresses in fracture mechanics, three-dimensional crack geometry, coupled cracked solid/fluid, etc. Recently, new topics related to crack detection based on different physical phenomena have appeared.
This book is an attempt to present, in a unified manner, different topics of Continuum and Fracture Mechanics: energy methods, conservation laws, mathematical methods to solve two-dimensional and three-dimensional crack problems. Moreover, a series of new subjects is presented in a straightforward manner, accessible to under-graduate students. These new topics take into consideration the thermodynamics of continuous media, including thermal and dynamical aspects. In addition, the book introduces the notion of duality or symmetry in Solids Mechanics. The loss of symmetry is exploited to provide a unique and powerful tool, called the reciprocity gap functional introduced by the authora (TM)s groups, to solve explicitly some important inverse problems arising in crack determination as well as in the earthquake inverse problem.
With its emphasis, initially on physical or experimental back-grounds, and then on analysis and theoretical results, rather than on numerical computations, this monograph is intended to beused by students and researchers in solids mechanics, mechanical engineering and applied mathematics.
Full Product Details
Author: H D Bui
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
ISBN: 9786610745043
ISBN 10: 6610745048
Pages: 395
Publication Date: 01 January 2006
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Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From the reviews: <p> This monograph is mainly a scope of research results of group of scientists of A0/00cole Polytechnique-Paris. The results concern crack theory and associated fields as fracture, yielding and material science. a ] There are many problems for discussions, e.g. the Dugodale-Barenblatt cracks are absolutely different from physical point of view. a ] Altogether the monograph is an interesting and valuable contribution and can be used by researchers and graduate students. (Jozef Golecki, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1108 (10), 2007)
