This book provides the first truly comprehensive study of damage mechanics. All concepts are carefully identified and defined in micro- and macroscopic scales. In terms of the methods and observation scales, the main part of the book is divided into three chapters. These chapters consider the stochastic models applied to atomistic scale, micromechanical models (for arbitary concentrations of defects) on microscopic scale and continuum models on the macroscopic scale. It is intended for people who are doing or planning to do research in the mechanics and material science aspects of brittle deformation of solids with heterogeneous microstructure.
Author(s): Dusan Krajcinovic (Eds.)
Series: North-Holland series in applied mathematic and mechanics 41
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 1996
Language: English
Commentary: +OCR
Pages: 1-761
City: Amsterdam; New York
Content:
Preface
Pages v-vi
Chapter 1 Introduction Original Research Article
Pages 1-32
Chapter 2 Statistical models Original Research Article
Pages 33-220
Chapter 3 Micromechanical models Original Research Article
Pages 221-413
Chapter 4 Continuum models Original Research Article
Pages 415-602
Chapter 5 Summary and conclusions Original Research Article
Pages 603-616
Appendix A-Percolation theory
Pages 617-631
Appendix B-Percolation threshold
Pages 632-650
Appendix C-Multifractal formalism
Pages 651-664
Appendix D-Self-similarity and scaling laws
Pages 665-673
Appendix E-Hooke's law and material symmetries
Pages 674-679
Appendix F—Molecular dynamics
Pages 680-686
Referenced Literature
Pages 687-737
Author's index
Pages 739-751
Subject index
Pages 753-761
