Introduction to Fracture Mechanics presents an introduction to the
origins, formulation and application of fracture mechanics for the
design, safe operation and life prediction in structural materials
and components. The book introduces and informs the reader on how
fracture mechanics works and how it is so different from other
forms of analysis that are used to characterize mechanical
properties. Chapters cover foundational topics and the use of
linear-elastic fracture mechanics, involving both K-based
characterizing parameter and G-based energy approaches, and how to
characterize the fracture toughness of materials under plane-strain
and non plane-strain conditions using the notion of
crack-resistance or R-curves. Other sections cover far more complex
nonlinear-elastic fracture mechanics based on the use of the
J-integral and the crack-tip opening displacement. These topics
largely involve continuum mechanics descriptions of crack
initiation, slow crack growth, eventual instability by overload
fracture, and subcritical cracking.
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