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Physical Aspects of Fracture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001): Elisabeth Bouchaud, Dominique Jeulin,... Physical Aspects of Fracture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
Elisabeth Bouchaud, Dominique Jeulin, Claude Prioul, Stephane Roux
R1,745 Discovery Miles 17 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The main scope of this Cargese NATO Advanced Study Institute (June 5-17 2000) was to bring together a number of international experts, covering a large spectrum of the various Physical Aspects of Fracture. As a matter of fact, lecturers as well as participants were coming from various scientific communities: mechanics, physics, materials science, with the common objective of progressing towards a multi-scale description of fracture. This volume includes papers on most materials of practical interest: from concrete to ceramics through metallic alloys, glasses, polymers and composite materials. The classical fields of damage and fracture mechanisms are addressed (critical and sub-critical quasi-static crack propagation, stress corrosion, fatigue, fatigue-corrosion . . . . as well as dynamic fracture). Brittle and ductile fractures are considered and a balance has been carefully kept between experiments, simulations and theoretical models, and between the contributions of the various communities. New topics in damage and fracture mechanics - the effect of disorder and statistical aspects, dynamic fracture, friction and fracture of interfaces - were also explored. This large overview on the Physical Aspects of Fracture shows that the old barriers built between the different scales will soon "fracture." It is no more unrealistic to imagine that a crack initiated through a molecular dynamics description could be propagated at the grain level thanks to dislocation dynamics included in a crystal plasticity model, itself implemented in a finite element code. Linking what happens at the atomic scale to fracture of structures as large as a dam is the new emerging challenge.

Disorder and Fracture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990): J.C. Charmet, E. Guyon, Stephane Roux Disorder and Fracture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
J.C. Charmet, E. Guyon, Stephane Roux
R3,026 Discovery Miles 30 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fracture, and particularly brittle fracture, is a good example of an instability. For a homogeneous solid, subjected to a uniform stress field, a crack may appear anywhere in the structure once the threshold stress is reached. However, once a crack has been nucleated in some place, further damage in the solid will in most cases propagate from the initial crack, and not somewhere else in the solid. In this sense fracture is an unstable process. This property makes the process extremely sensitive to any heterogeneity present in the medium, which selects the location of the first crack nucleated. In particular, fracture appears to be very sensitive to disorder, which can favor or impede local cracks. Therefore, in most realistic cases, a good description of fracture mechanics should include the effect of disorder. Recently this need has motivated work in this direction starting from the usual description of fracture mechanics. Parallel with this first trend, statistical physics underwent a very important development in the description of disordered systems. In particular, let us mention the emergence of some "new" concepts (such as fractals, scaling laws, finite size effects, and so on) in this field. However, many models considered were rather simple and well adapted to theoretical or numerical introduction into a complex body of problems. An example of this can be found in percolation theory. This area is now rather well understood and accurately described.

Phenix / Sibilla (Paperback): Jean-Marc Lofficier Phenix / Sibilla (Paperback)
Jean-Marc Lofficier; Illustrated by Stephane Roux, Frederic Grivaud
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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