Non-Linear Fracture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Damage

   1. Finite element analysis of void growth in elastic-plastic materials

      • R. M. McMeeking, C. L. Hom

      Pages 1-19

   2. An analysis of decohesion along an imperfect interface

      • A. Needleman

      Pages 21-40

   3. Mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue crack growth in brittle solids

      • S. Suresh

      Pages 41-56

   4. Damage induced constitutive response of a thermoplastic related to composites and adhesive bonding

      • M. Parvin, W. G. Knauss

      Pages 57-72

   5. Deformation processes in semi-brittle polycrystalline ceramics

      • Dusan Krajcinovic, Aleksandar Stojimirovic

      Pages 73-86

   6. Micro-mechanics of crack initiation

      • Jean Lemaitre

      Pages 87-99

3. Interfaces and Creep

   1. Elastic-plastic and asymptotic fields of interface cracks

      • C. F. Shih, R. J. Asaro

      Pages 101-116

   2. Effect of decohesion and sliding on bimaterial crack-tip fields

      • Michael Ortiz, Janet A. Blume

      Pages 117-128

   3. Elastic-plastic analysis of frictionless contact at interfacial crack tips

      • E. Zywicz, D. M. Parks

      Pages 129-143

   4. Effect of microstructure degradation on creep crack growth

      • Viggo Tvergaard

      Pages 145-155

   5. Influence of damage on crack-tip fields under small-scale-creep conditions

      • John L. Bassani, Donald E. Hawk

      Pages 157-172

   6. Creep crack growth under small-scale creep conditions

      • Hermann Riedel

      Pages 173-188

   7. On some path independent integrals and their use in fracture of nonlinear viscoelastic media

      • R. A. Schapery

      Pages 189-207

4. Time Dependence

   1. Dynamic measurement of the J integral in ductile metals: Comparison of experimental and numerical techniques

      • Alan T. Zehnder, Ares J. Rosakis, Sridhar Krishnaswamy

      Pages 209-230

   2. Plastic zone formation around an arresting crack

      • R. J. Fields, R. deWit

      Pages 231-238

   3. Viscoplastic-dynamic crack propagation: Experimental and analysis research for crack arrest applications in engineering structures

      • M. F. Kanninen, S. J. Hudak Jr., H. R. Couque, R. J. Dexter, P. E. O’donoghue

      Pages 239-260

   4. Observations on high strain rate crack growth based on a strip yield model

      • L. B. Freund, Y. J. Lee

      Pages 261-276

   5. Computer demonstration of crack growth

      • K. B. Broberg

      Pages 277-285

   6. Some basic issues in dynamic crack growth in elastic-plastic solids

      • S. Nemat-Nasser, M. Obata

      Pages 287-300

From time to time the International Journal of Fracture has presented special matters thought to be of interest to its readers. In previous issues, for example, Dr. H.W. Liu as Guest Editor assembled a series of review papers dealing with fatigue processes and characteristics in metals and non-metals (December 1980 and April 1981). Five years ago Guest Editor W.G. Knauss collected works dealing with dynamic fracture (March and April 1985). Continuing this policy, Dr. W.G. Knauss and Dr. A.J. Rosakis of the California Institute of Technology as Guest Editors have now organized an extensive set of papers concerning the influence of non-linear effects upon the mechanics of the fracture process. This collection is based upon contributions to a relatively small international Symposium on Non­ Linear Fracture Mechanics held under the auspices of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and convened at the California Institute of Technology in March 1988. It should be noted that although the description of non-linear fracture inherently encompasses a strong material science component, this aspect is not heavily emphasized in the ensuing papers due to the intentional focus upon mechanics. Volume 42 of the International Journal of Fracture will therefore, in successive issues, deal respectively with topics in (1) Damage, (2) Interfaces and Creep, (3) Time Dependence, and (4) Continuum Plasticity. On behalf of the editors and publishers, I wish to express our appreciation to Dr. Knauss, Dr. Rosakis, and their colleagues for their collective efforts.

• cracks
• damage
• finite element method
• fracture
• mechanics
• mechanisms
• microstructure
• model
• plasticity

• Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, Caltech, Pasadena, USA

  W. G. Knauss, A. J. Rosakis

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