Nonlinear Crack Models for Nonmetallic Materials (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792357506)

In this volume a survey of the most relevant nonlinear crack models is provided, with the purpose of analyzing the nonlinear mechanical effects occurring at the tip of macrocracks in quasi-brittle materials - such as concrete, rocks, ceramics, polymers, high-strength metallic alloys - and in brittle-matrix fibre-reinforced composites. Such local effects, as, for example, plastic deformation, yielding, strain-hardening, strain-softening, mechanical damage, matrix microcracking, aggregate debonding, fibre bridging, fibre slippage, crazing, and so on, are properly described through different simplified models, representing the peculiarities of the phenomena involved. The models are introduced and described separately and then compared in the last part of the book.
This volume will be of interest to students, professionals and researchers in the field of nonlinear fracture mechanics.

Author: Alberto Carpinteri
ISBN-10: 0792357507
ISBN-13: 9780792357506
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1999
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d