Damage and Fracture of Disordered Materials [Paperback]

The principal objective of this book is to relate the random distributions of defects and material strength on the microscopic scale with the deformation and residual strength of materials on the macroscopic scale. To reach this goal the authors considered experimental, analytical and computational models on atomic, microscopic and macroscopic scales.Introduction to Damage Mechanics (D. Krajcinovic).- Statistics Toolbox for Damage and Fracture (A. Hansen, S. Roux).- Molecular and Particle Simulations (D. Krajcinovic).- Measurement of Damage Parameters of Brittle Disordered Media like Concrete and Rock (J. van Mier).- Micro-Crack Clustering, non Local and Gradient Damage Models (G. Pijaudier-Cabot).- Premises to a Multifield Approach to Stochastic Damage Evolution (P. M. Mariano)Springer Book Archives