IUTAM Symposium on Analytical and Computational Fracture Mechanics of Non-Homogeneous Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Features and Ellipticity Analysis of a Discrete Constitutive Equation

   • H. L. Schreyer

   Pages 1-10

3. Finite Fracture Mechanics — Application to the Onset of a Crack at a Bimaterial Corner

   • D. Leguillon, K. Siruguet

   Pages 11-18

4. Elastic-Plastic Stress Singularity near a Bonded Interface

   • Dai-Heng Chen, Kuniharu Ushijima

   Pages 19-23

5. Viscosity-Dominated Regime of a Fluid-Driven Fracture in an Elastic Medium

   • D. I. Garagash, E. Detournay

   Pages 25-29

6. Modelling Failure Mechanisms in Laminated Composites

   • L. N. McCartney

   Pages 31-40

7. The Influence of Fibers on the Structural Response of Reinforced Concrete Beams

   • A. Carpinteri, G. Ferro, G. Ventura

   Pages 41-50

8. Materials with Novel Architectonics: Assemblies of Interlocked Elements

   • Y. Estrin, A. V. Dyskin, A. J. Kanel-Belov, E. Pasternak

   Pages 51-55

9. Asymptotics of Elastic Field Near the Tip of Interface Crack Under Nonclassical Transmission Conditions

   • G. S. Mishuris, G. Kuhn

   Pages 57-61

10. Scaling in Multiple Fracture and Size Effect

    • F. M. Borodich

    Pages 63-72

11. Mechanics of Fractal Materials

    • A. V. Dyskin

    Pages 73-82

12. Fractal Aspects of Fracture Simulation

    • M. Davydova

    Pages 83-87

13. Filling of a Circular Crack with Two Non Miscible Fluids

    • A. Feraille-Fresnet, A. Ehrlacher

    Pages 89-93

14. Effect of Inhomogeneous Rock Properties on the Stability of Wellbores

    • Colin Atkinson, Ian Bradford

    Pages 95-104

15. The Interplay of Material and Geometric Instabilities in Large Deformations of Viscous Rock

    • H.-B. Mühlhaus, L. Moresi, F. Dufour, B. Hobbs

    Pages 105-115

16. A Displacement Rate Dependent Softening Model Applied to the Unstable Propagation of Shear Crack in Soft Rock

    • Y. Nakagawa, E. Puntel, H. Horii

    Pages 117-126

17. Fractures and Defects in Cosserat Continua Modelling Layered Materials

    • E. Pasternak, H.-B. Mühlhaus, A. V. Dyskin

    Pages 127-131

18. Modeling Thin Inclusions in Poroelastic Medium by Line Discontinuities

    • Leonid N. Germanovich, Rajesh A. Chanpura

    Pages 133-142

19. Cleavage Fracture in “Heterogeneous” Steel Microstructures

    • John F. Knott

    Pages 143-154

20. Modelling Delayed Hydride Cracking in Zirconium Alloys

    • D. A. Scarth, E. Smith

    Pages 155-165

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on "Analytical and Computational Fracture Mechanics of Non-homogeneous Materials", held in Cardiff from 18th to 22nd June 2001. The Symposium was convened to address and place on record topical issues in analytical and computational aspects of the fracture of non-homogeneous materials as they are approached by specialists in mechanics, materials science and related fields. The expertise represented in the Symposium was accordingly very wide, and many of the world's greatest authorities in their respective fields participated. Given the extensive range and scale of non-homogeneous materials, it had to be focussed to enhance the quality and impact of the Symposium. The range of non-homogeneous materials was limited to those that are inhomogeneous at the macroscopic level and/or exhibit strain softening. The issues of micro to macro scaling were not excluded even within this restricted range which covered materials such as rock, concrete, ceramics and composites on the one hand, and, on the other, those metallic materials whose ductile fracture is strongly influenced by the presence of inhomogeneities. The Symposium remained focussed on fundamental research issues of practical significance. These issues have many common features among seemingly disparate non-homogeneous materials.

• Analysis
• Transformation
• alloy
• ceramics
• crystal
• fracture mechanics
• mechanics
• model
• modeling
• polymer
• simulation
• stability

• School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

  B. L. Karihaloo

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