Research and Markets: Fracture Mechanics - An Essential Report

DUBLIN--()--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a4f0c4/fracture_mechanics) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new report "Fracture Mechanics" to their offering.

From a leading expert in fracture mechanics, this new text provides new approaches and new applications to advance the understanding of crack formation and propagation. With applications in composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging among others, this timely coverage is an important resource for anyone studying or applying concepts of fracture mechanics.

Concise and easily understood mathematical treatment of crack tip fields (chapter 3) provides the basis for applying fracture mechanics in solving practical problems.

  • Unique coverage of bi-material interfacial cracks (chapter 8), with applications to commercially important areas of composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging.
  • A full chapter (chapter 9) on the cohesive zone model approach, which has been extensively used in recent years to simulate crack propagation.
  • A unified discussion of fracture criteria involving nonlinear/plastic deformations

Key Topics Covered:

  • Introduction
  • Griffith Theory of Fracture
  • Elastic Stress Field Around a Crack Tip
  • Energy Release Rate
  • Mixed Mode Fracture
  • Crack Tip Plasticity
  • Elastic-Plastic Fracture Criteria
  • Interfacial Cracks Between Two Dissimilar Solids
  • Cohesive Zone Model
  • Appendix: Stress Intensity Factors

Authors:

  • Sun, Chin-Teh.
  • Neil A. Armstrong

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a4f0c4/fracture_mechanics

Contacts

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager,
press@researchandmarkets.com
U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716

Contacts

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager,
press@researchandmarkets.com
U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716