Nonlinear Crack Models for Nonmetallic Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Alberto Carpinteri

   Pages 1-25

3. The Damage Crack Model

   • Enrico Ballatore

   Pages 27-76

4. The Cohesive Crack Model

   • Fabrizio Barpi

   Pages 77-139

5. The Bridged-Crack Model

   • Roberta Massabò

   Pages 141-208

6. The Microcrack-Interacting Model

   • Antonio Brencich

   Pages 209-284

7. Comparisons and Conclusions

   • A. Carpinteri, R. Massabò, A. Brencich

   Pages 285-309

8. Back Matter

   Pages 311-316

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In this volume a survey of the most relevant nonlinear crack models is provided, with the purpose of analyzing the nonlinear mechanical effects occurring at the tip of macrocracks in quasi-brittle materials - such as concrete, rocks, ceramics, polymers, high-strength metallic alloys - and in brittle-matrix fibre-reinforced composites. Such local effects, as, for example, plastic deformation, yielding, strain-hardening, strain-softening, mechanical damage, matrix microcracking, aggregate debonding, fibre bridging, fibre slippage, crazing, and so on, are properly described through different simplified models, representing the peculiarities of the phenomena involved. The models are introduced and described separately and then compared in the last part of the book.
This volume will be of interest to students, professionals and researchers in the field of nonlinear fracture mechanics.

• Metall
• alloy
• ceramics
• composite
• deformation
• fracture mechanics
• polymer
• polymers

• Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  Alberto Carpinteri

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