Nonlinear crack models for nonmetallic materials

A. Carpinteri

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Jun 30, 1999 - Medical - 309 pages

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.

Contents

• 5: 118
• The MicrocrackInteracting Model by A Brencich: 209
• Comparisons and Conclusions by A Carpinteri R Massabb: 285

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nonlinear crack models for nonmetallic materials; Volume 71 of Solid mechanics and its applications
• Author: A. Carpinteri
• Editor: A. Carpinteri
• Contributor: A. Carpinteri
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 30, 2007
• ISBN: 0792357507, 9780792357506
• Length: 309 pages
• Subjects: Medical / General; Nonlinear mechanics; Nonmetallic materials; Nonmetallic materials/ Cracking/ Mathematical models; Science / Mechanics / General; Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General); Technology & Engineering / Fracture Mechanics; Technology & Engineering / Material Science