Fracture Mechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Deformation and Fracture

   Pages 1-28

3. Energetic Aspects of Fracture

   Pages 29-59

4. Solutions of Cracks Problems

   Pages 61-95

5. Thermodynamics of Crack Propagation

   Pages 97-112

6. Dynamic Fracture Mechanics

   Pages 113-133

7. Three-Dimensional Crack Problems

   Pages 135-171

8. Non Linear Fracture Mechanics

   Pages 173-198

9. The Fluid-Filled Crack

   Pages 199-231

10. Crack Detection by Scattering of Waves

    Pages 233-251

11. Tomographic Evaluation of Materials

    Pages 253-266

12. The Reciprocity Gap Functional for Crack Detection

    Pages 267-291

13. Methods of Solution to Inverse Problems

    Pages 293-322

14. Back Matter

    Pages 323-382

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This book is an outgrowth of my involvement in two groups of research in solid mechanics, created in 1960 for the French nuclear energy program. At this time, it was decided that France, as a no-oil reservoir country, must be powered by nuclear energy, which represents today 80% of the total - tional energy supply. Long before the construction of the first nuclear plant at Fessenheim in 1973, Electricité de France (EdF) created its first solid mechanics laboratory, appointed researchers and sent them to the universities or abroad in order to learn about theories and new methods of assessment of the safety of structures. Working at EdF, I was training in Professor Jean Mandel’s laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique (LMS), Paris. My friend René Labbens, working at Framatome (the builder of nuclear plants) was training at the Lehigh University, under the guidance of professors G. R. Irwin and G. C. Sih. We had to work hard, both academically at the u- versities laboratories and performing engineering tasks for our employer. This dual position was a great chance for many of us, since we discovered that real industrial problems are the source of new subjects and research problems to be solved by theoreticians in the universities and conversely we immediately knew if our theoretical work was good or not for appli- tions as revealed in our daily works conducted for our industrial employer.

• geometry
• linearity
• mechanical engineering
• mechanics
• model
• plasticity
• stability
• thermodynamics

From the reviews:

"This monograph is mainly a scope of research results of group of scientists of École Polytechnique-Paris. The results concern crack theory and associated fields as fracture, yielding and material science. … There are many problems for discussions, e.g. the Dugodale-Barenblatt cracks are absolutely different from physical point of view. … 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)

• Ecole Polytechnique, Department of Mechanics, France

  H. D. Bui

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