Recent developments in engineering and technology have brought
about serious and enlarged demands for reliability, safety and
economy in wide range of fields such as aeronautics, nuclear
engineering, civil and structural engineering, automotive and
production industry. This, in turn, has caused more interest in
continuum damage mechanics and its engineering applications.
This book aims to give a concise overview of the current state
of damage mechanics, and then to show the fascinating possibility
of this promising branch of mechanics, and to provide researchers,
engineers and graduate students with an intelligible and
self-contained textbook.
The book consists of two parts and an appendix. Part I is
concerned with the foundation of continuum damage mechanics. Basic
concepts of material damage and the mechanical representation of
damage state of various kinds are described in Chapters 1 and 2. In
Chapters 3-5, irreversible thermodynamics, thermodynamic
constitutive theory and its application to the modeling of the
constitutive and the evolution equations of damaged materials are
descried as a systematic basis for the subsequent development
throughout the book.
Part II describes the application of the fundamental theories
developed in Part I to typical damage and fracture problems
encountered in various fields of the current engineering. Important
engineering aspects of elastic-plastic or ductile damage, their
damage mechanics modeling and their further refinement are first
discussed in Chapter 6. Chapters 7 and 8 are concerned with the
modeling of fatigue, creep, creep-fatigue and their engineering
application. Damage mechanics modeling of complicated crack closure
behavior in elastic-brittle and composite materials are discussed
in Chapters 9 and 10. In Chapter 11, applicability of the local
approach to fracture by means of damage mechanics and finite
element method, and the ensuing mathematical and numerical problems
are briefly discussed.
A proper understanding of the subject matter requires knowledge
of tensor algebra and tensor calculus. At the end of this book,
therefore, the foundations of tensor analysis are presented in the
Appendix, especially for readers with insufficient mathematical
background, but with keen interest in this exciting field of
mechanics.
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