Mechanics and Physics of Energy Density

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Synchronization of thermal and mechanical disturbances in uniaxial specimens

   • G. C. Sih

   Pages 1-34

3. Thoughts on energy density, fracture and thermal emission

   • R. Jones, M. Heller, L. Molent

   Pages 35-58

4. Effects of fillers on fracture performance of thermoplastics: strain energy density criterion

   • T. Vu-Khanh, B. Fisa, J. Denault

   Pages 59-73

5. Strain energy density criterion applied to characterize damage in metal alloys

   • V. S. Ivanova

   Pages 75-85

6. Local and global instability in fracture mechanics

   • A. Carpinteri

   Pages 87-107

7. A strain-rate dependent model for crack growth

   • G. E. Papakaliatakis, E. E. Gdoutos, E. Tzanaki

   Pages 109-119

8. Extrusion of metal bars through different shape die: Damage evaluation by energy density theory

   • J. Lovas

   Pages 121-136

9. Failure of a plate containing a partially bonded rigid fiber inclusion

   • E. E. Gdoutos, M. A. Kattis

   Pages 137-147

10. Crack growth in rate sensitive solids

    • O. A. Bukharin, L. V. Nikitin

    Pages 149-154

11. Strain energy density criterion applied to mixed-mode cracking dominated by in-plane shear

    • K.-F. Fischer

    Pages 155-165

12. Group-averaging methods for generating constitutive equations

    • M. M. Smith, G. F. Smith

    Pages 167-178

13. A dislocation theory based on volume-to-surface ratio: Fracture behavior of metals

    • C. W. Lung, L. Y. Xiong, S. Liu

    Pages 179-193

14. The effect of microcracks on energy density

    • N. Laws

    Pages 195-201

15. Convex energy functions for two-sided solution bounds in unilateral elastomechanics

    • A. A. Liolios

    Pages 203-209

Material technology has become so diversified in theories and the construction of novel microstructures that the researchers and practitioners are drifting further apart. This book is based on material presented at an International Symposium in Xanthi, Greece in July 1989. The symposium attracted a group of individual engineers and scientists from the East and West who tackled the question of why particular manipulations of a given material have particular effects. Emphasis is laid on the strain energy function because of the versatile role it plays in mechanics and physics. It has been used successfully not only in predicting the failure of solids but also in formulating constitutive relations in continuum mechanics.
The material presented falls within the areas of: Fundamentals of Strain Energy Density, Damage Analysis on Strain Energy Density, Strain Energy Density as Failure Criterion, Applications, and Composites.

• continuum mechanics
• cracks
• damage
• fracture
• fracture mechanics
• mechanics
• metals
• plastics
• stability

• Institute of Fracture and Solid Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA

  George C. Sih

• Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

  Emmanuel E. Gdoutos

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