Fracture Mechanics

Fracture Mechanics presents the fundamentals of fracture research and engineering practice. Class-tested at Cornell, this book is designed for students, researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, and contributing, to a diverse and vital field of knowledge.

Fracture mechanics is a vast and growing field. This book develops the basic elements needed for both fracture research and engineering practice. The emphasis is on continuum mechanics models for energy flows and crack-tip stress- and deformation fields in elastic and elastic-plastic materials. In addition to a brief discussion of computational fracture methods, the text includes practical sections on fracture criteria, fracture toughness testing, and methods for measuring stress intensity factors and energy release rates. Class-tested at Cornell, this book is designed for students, researchers and practitioners interested in understanding and contributing to a diverse and vital field of knowledge.

Strikes the right balance in integrating theory, experiment and computational methods for fracture Offers a concise and class-tested introduction to fracture mechanics Of interest to researchers and students in mechanical engineering, materials science and physics Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Alan Zehnder joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1988. Since then he has served in a number of leadership roles including Chair of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He teaches applied mechanics and his research topics focus on fracture, experimental mechanics and nonlinear dynamics of nanomechanical oscillators. He was awarded the 1988 Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize for his Optical Engineering paper on optical methods in dynamic-fracture experimentation.

Inhalt
Preface.- List of Acronyms.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Linear Elastic Stress Analysis of 2D Cracks.- 3 Energy Flows in Elastic Fracture.- 4 Criteria for Elastic Fracture.- Determining K and G.- 6 Fracture Toughness Tests.- 7 Elastic Plastic Fracture: Crack Tip Fields.- 8 Elastic Plastic Fracture: Energy and Applications.- Index.