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- Offers a clear foundation to study Continuum Damage Mechanics
- Presents a comprehensive treatment on Damage mechanics that has not been published before
- Includes a concise and thorough survey of the most important results of Continuum Mechanics Developments
Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 185)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Continuum Damage Mechanics
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Front Matter
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Application of Continuum Damage Mechanics
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Back Matter
About this book
Recent developments in engineering and technology have brought about serious and enlarged demands for reliability, safety and economy in wide range of fields such as aeronautics, nuclear engineering, civil and structural engineering, automotive and production industry. This, in turn, has caused more interest in continuum damage mechanics and its engineering applications.
This book aims to give a concise overview of the current state of damage mechanics, and then to show the fascinating possibility of this promising branch of mechanics, and to provide researchers, engineers and graduate students with an intelligible and self-contained textbook.
The book consists of two parts and an appendix. Part I is concerned with the foundation of continuum damage mechanics. Basic concepts of material damage and the mechanical representation of damage state of various kinds are described in Chapters 1 and 2. In Chapters 3-5, irreversible thermodynamics, thermodynamic constitutive theory and its application to the modeling of the constitutive and the evolution equations of damaged materials are descried as a systematic basis for the subsequent development throughout the book.
Part II describes the application of the fundamental theories developed in Part I to typical damage and fracture problems encountered in various fields of the current engineering. Important engineering aspects of elastic-plastic or ductile damage, their damage mechanics modeling and their further refinement are first discussed in Chapter 6. Chapters 7 and 8 are concerned with the modeling of fatigue, creep, creep-fatigue and their engineering application. Damage mechanics modeling of complicated crack closure behavior in elastic-brittle and composite materials are discussed in Chapters 9 and 10. In Chapter 11, applicability of the local approach to fracture by means of damage mechanics and finite element method, and the ensuingmathematical and numerical problems are briefly discussed.
A proper understanding of the subject matter requires knowledge of tensor algebra and tensor calculus. At the end of this book, therefore, the foundations of tensor analysis are presented in the Appendix, especially for readers with insufficient mathematical background, but with keen interest in this exciting field of mechanics.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The Continuum Damage Mechanics is based on the classical Continuum Mechanics. … an excellent overview on the state of the art and the main directions in Continuum Damage Mechanics. … can be highly recommended for beginners, academic researchers, but also for engineers in the industries. … The author has presented a lot of non-simple theories in a well-understandable manner.” (Holm Altenbach, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 92 (6), 2012)Authors and Affiliations
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, Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Sumio Murakami
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Continuum Damage Mechanics
Book Subtitle: A Continuum Mechanics Approach to the Analysis of Damage and Fracture
Authors: Sumio Murakami
Series Title: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2666-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2665-9Published: 24 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9960-8Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2666-6Published: 23 February 2012
Series ISSN: 0925-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7764
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 402
Topics: Solid Mechanics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Classical Mechanics