Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology - Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July 2012

This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.The objective of the Symposium was fracture research, interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics treatments of damage development and crack growth and also large-scale failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or landslide failures, ice shelf break-up and hydraulic fracturing (natural or for resource extraction or CO2 sequestration), as well as small-scale rupture phenomena in materials physics including, e.g. inception of shear banding, void growth, adhesion and decohesion in contact and friction, crystal dislocation processes and atomic/electronic scale treatment of brittle crack tips and fundamental cohesive properties. Special emphasis was given to multiscale fracture description and new scale-bridging formulations capable to substantiate recent experiments and tailored to become the basis for innovative computational algorithms.

List of contents

Foreword.- Modeling fracture by material-point erosion.- Crack front perturbations revisited.- Localisation near defects and filtering of flexural waves in structured plates.- Fracture process in cortical bone: X-FEM analysis of microstructured models.- Minimum theorems in 3D incremental linear elastic fracture mechanics.- Crack patterns obtained by unidirectional drying of a colloidal suspension in a capillary tube: experiments and numerical simulations using a two-dimensional variational approach.- Damage mechanisms in the dynamic fracture of nominally brittle polymers.- Tight sedimentary covers for CO sequestration.- Calibration of brittle fracture models by sharp indenters and inverse analysis.- Statistics of ductile fracture surfaces: the effect of material parameters.- Efficient pseudo-spectral solvers for the PKN model of hydrofracturing.- A solution to the parameter-identification conundrum: multi-scale interaction potentials.- Remarks on application of different variables for the PKN model of hydrofracturing: various fluid-flow regimes.- Prediction of grain boundary stress fields and micro crack initiation induced by slip band impingement.- Modeling the heterogeneous effects of retained austenite on the behavior of martensitic high strength steels.- Crack nucleation from a notch in a ductile material under shear dominant loading.

Product details

• Assisted by: Davide Bigoni (Editor), Angel Carini (Editor), Angelo Carini (Editor), Massimiliano Gei (Editor), Massimiliano Gei et al (Editor), Alberto Salvadori (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319345932
• ISBN: 978-3-31-934593-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 194 mm x 11 mm x 260 mm
• Weight: 643 g
• Illustrations: VI, 266 p. 184 illus., 128 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; C, engineering, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Materials science, Mechanics, Earth Sciences, Mechanics, Applied, Maths for engineers, Mathematical modelling, Structural engineering, Structural Materials, Geotechnical engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Mathematical models