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
containsfifty example problems and more than two hundred unsolved
problems. A "Solutions Manual" is available upon request for course
instructors from the author.
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