Advances in Fracture Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-V

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2. Editorial

   • Alberto Carpinteri, Yiu-Wing Mai, Robert O. Ritchie

   Pages 1-2

3. ICF11 Official speeches

   • Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar

   Pages 3-11

4. Fractal analysis and synthesis of fracture surface roughness and related forms of complexity and disorder

   • Benoit B. Mandelbrot

   Pages 13-17

5. Scaling phenomena in fatigue and fracture

   • G. I. Barenblatt

   Pages 19-35

6. ICF contribution to fracture research in the second half of the 20th century

   • Takeo Yokobori

   Pages 37-45

7. Inverse analyses in fracture mechanics

   • G. Maier, M. Bocciarelli, G. Bolzon, R. Fedele

   Pages 47-73

8. Nanoprobing fracture length scales

   • W. W. Gerberich, W. M. Mook, M. J. Cordill, J. M. Jungk, B. Boyce, T. Friedmann et al.

   Pages 75-100

9. Application of fracture mechanics concepts to hierarchical biomechanics of bone and bone-like materials

   • Huajin Gao

   Pages 101-137

10. Development of the local approach to fracture over the past 25 years: Theory and applications

    • A. Pineau

    Pages 139-166

11. The effect of hydrogen on fatigue properties of metals used for fuel cell system

    • Y. Murakami

    Pages 167-195

12. A cohesive zone global energy analysis of an impact loaded bi-material strip in shear

    • J. G. Williams, H. Hadavinia

    Pages 197-209

13. Laboratory earthquakes

    • Ares J. Rosakis, Hiroo Kanamori, Kaiwen Xia

    Pages 211-218

14. Electromigration failure of metal lines

    • Hiroyuki Abé, Kazuhiko Sasagawa, Masumi Saka

    Pages 219-240

15. Modern domain-based discretization methods for damage and fracture

    • René de Borst

    Pages 241-262

Biological materials are bottom-up designed systems formed from billions of years of natural evolution. In the long course of Darwinian competition for survival, nature has evolved a huge variety of hierarchical and multifunctional systems from nucleic acids, proteins, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, animal communities to ecological s- tems. Multilevel hierarchy a rule of nature. The complexities of biology provide an opportunity to study the basic principles of hierarchical and multifunctional s- tems design, a subject of potential interest not only to biomedical and life sciences, but also to nanosciences and nanotechnology. Systematic studies of how hierarchical structures in biology are related to their functions and properties can lead to better understanding of the effects of aging, diseases and drugs on tissues and organs, and may help developing a scienti?c basis for tissue engineering to improve the standard of living. At the same time, such studies may also provide guidance on the dev- opment of novel nanostructured hierarchical materials via a bottom-up approach, i. e. by tailor-designing materials from atomic scale and up. Currently we barely have any theoretical basis on how to design a hierarchical material to achieve a part- ular set of macroscopic properties. The new effort aiming to understand the re- tionships between hierarchical structures in biology and their mechanical as well as other functions and properties may provide challenging and rewarding opportunities for mechanics in the 21st century.

• biomechanics
• damage
• fatigue
• fracture
• fracture mechanics
• friction
• mechanics
• structural mechanics

• Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

  Alberto Carpinteri

• University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Yiu-Wing Mai

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Robert O. Ritchie

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