Overview
- Four new chapters in addition to the text that has proven useful in courses for many years
- Example problems and unsolved problems for students
- Solutions manual available from the author upon request
Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 123)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
New developments in the applications of fracture mechanics to engineering problems have taken place in the last years. Composite materials have extensively been used in engineering problems. Quasi-brittle materials including concrete, cement pastes, rock, soil, etc. all benefit from these developments. Layered materials and especially thin film/substrate systems are becoming important in small volume systems used in micro and nanoelectromechancial systems (MEMS and NEMS). Nanostructured materials are being introduced in our every day life. In all these problems fracture mechanics plays a major role for the prediction of failure and safe design of materials and structures. These new challenges motivated the author to proceed with the second edition of the book.
The second edition of the book contains four new chapters in addition to the ten chapters of the first edition. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the basic principles and traditional applications, as well as the latest developments of fracture mechanics as applied to problems of composite materials, thin films, nanoindentation and cementitious materials. Thus the book provides an introductory coverage of the traditional and contemporary applications of fracture mechanics in problems of utmost technological importance.
With the addition of the four new chapters the book presents a comprehensive treatment of fracture mechanics. It includes the basic principles and traditional applications as well as the new frontiers of research of fracture mechanics during the last three decades in topics of contemporary importance, like composites, thin films, nanoindentation and cementitious materials. The book contains fifty example problems and more than two hundred unsolved problems. A "Solutions Manual" is available upon request for course instructors from the author.
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
"The second edition of this textbook … now covers the latest developments as well as the basic principles and traditional applications of composites, thin films and cement materials." (Materials Today, May 2005)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fracture Mechanics
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: E.E. Gdoutos
Series Title: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3153-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2863-2Published: 15 February 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3153-3Published: 25 July 2005
Series ISSN: 0925-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7764
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 370
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Classical Mechanics