Overview
Offers a first introduction to the treatment of damage and fractures
Enables readers to grasp the basic ideas behind the presented approaches to modeling in applied mechanics
Includes worked-out examples to facilitate reader understanding
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
In the first part, the book reviews and expands on the classical theory of elastic and elasto-plastic material behavior. A solid understanding of these two topics is the essential prerequisite to advancing to damage and fracture mechanics. Thus, the second part of this course provides an introduction to the treatment of damage and fractures in the context of applied mechanics
Wherever possible, the one-dimensional case is first introduced and then generalized in a following step. This departs somewhat from the more classical approach, where first the most general case is derived and then simplified to special cases. In general, the required mathematics background is kept to a minimum
Tutorials are included at the end of each chapter, presenting the major steps for the solution and offering valuable tips and tricks. The supplementary problems featured in the book
Reviews
“This book is a well-condensed, useful textbook that introduces damage mechanics and fracture mechanics. … The author has succeeded in accomplishing the scope and organizing the content in a very readable structure without losing any important information on this topic. … This book will be useful not only to students, but also junior engineers who frequently utilize these principles. I recommend this book without reservation to anyone who needs to learn fracture mechanics.” (Yan Hong, MRS Bulletin, Vol. 41, September, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
His research interests are related to experimental and computational mechanics, cellular metals and thin structures and interphases. He has published over 370 scientific publications, comprising 13 research monographs, 15 book chapters and three teaching books on the finite element methods. He is the general chairman of eight international conferences on computational and experimental engineering (ACE-X series) and 11 international conferences in the area of heat and mass transfer (DSL series). His editorial work comprises appointments as Editor-in-chief of the international journal Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Springer), Editor-in-chief of the Springer book series on Advanced Structured Materials and Editor of SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology: Computational Mechanics. His research activities were recognised in 2010 by the award of a higher doctorate degree (D.Sc.) by the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Continuum Damage and Fracture Mechanics
Authors: Andreas Öchsner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-865-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-863-2Published: 24 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1323-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-865-6Published: 15 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 163
Number of Illustrations: 133 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid Mechanics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Classical Mechanics