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- Offers a new and unified view of fracture evolution in a brittle solid
- Treats crack evolution from its initiation all the way to the failure of the sample
- Models both crack initiation, crack path and crack extension for arbitrary geometries and loads
- Presents original results, both from a theoretical and from a numerical standpoint
- Offers a unified treatment of fracture and fatigue
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Louisiana State University, USA
Blaise Bourdin
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Université Paris-Nord, France
Gilles A. Francfort
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Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Jean-Jacques Marigo
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Variational Approach to Fracture
Authors: Blaise Bourdin, Gilles A. Francfort, Jean-Jacques Marigo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6395-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6394-7Published: 08 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7624-3Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6395-4Published: 19 April 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 164
Additional Information: Reprinted from JOURNAL OF ELASTICITY 91:1-3
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Solid Mechanics