Constitutive modelling in Continuum Damage Mechanics

Growing of damage as internal micro-defects in materials leads to degradation of mechanical properties up to the complete failure. Continuum Damage Mechanics is the most popular inelastic theory which is concerned with the effective continuum representation of a material including distributed micro-defects. The emphasis of this monograph is placed on the theoretical formulation and numerical implementation of the different constitutive models in the framework of continuum damage mechanics. To this end, several constitutive models are proposed for brittle and ductile solids.

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Dr. Mehdi Ganjiani received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Power and Water University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.