Fracture Mechanics covers classical and modern methods and introduce new/unique techniques, making this text an important resource for anyone involved in the study or application of fracture mechanics. Using insights from leading experts in fracture mechanics, it provides new approaches and new applications to advance the understanding of crack initiation and propagation.
With a concise and easily understood mathematical treatment of crack tip fields, this book provides the basis for applying fracture mechanics in solving practical problems. It features a unique coverage of bi-material interfacial cracks, with applications to commercially important areas of composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging. A full chapter is devoted to the cohesive zone model approach, which has been extensively used in recent years to simulate crack propagation. A unified discussion of fracture criteria involving nonlinear/plastic deformations is also provided.
The book is an invaluable resource for mechanical, aerospace, civil, and biomedical engineers in the field of mechanics as well as for graduate students and researchers studying mechanics.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Griffith Theory of Fracture
Elastic Stress Field Around a Crack Tip
Energy Release Rate
Mixed Mode Fracture
Crack Tip Plasticity
Elastic-Plastic Fracture Criteria
Interfacial Cracks Between Two Dissimilar Solids
Cohesive Zone Model
Appendix: Stress Intensity Factors
Authors
Chin-Teh Sun Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and AstronauticsPurdue University. Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Ph.D., Northwestern University 1967
Awards and Major Appointments
AIAA Fellow
ASME Fellow
ASC Fellow
Research Award for excellence in faculty research, Schools of Engineering, Purdue University, 2004.
ASTM Committee D-30 Wayne W. Stinchcomb Memorial Award
Research Areas
Current research interests include the following areas:
Composite Materials and Structures
Fractures Mechanics
Smart Materials -
Nanomaterials
Zhihe Jin Department Of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maine.
Zhihe Jin is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1988. His research areas include fracture mechanics, thermal stresses, poromechanics, biomechanics and thermoelectricity. His research is mainly concerned with the mathematical theories and solutions of fracture, deformation, heat conduction, porous fluid flow and thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency. He has published more than 100 refereed journal papers and 6 book chapters. He also co-authored a textbook on fracture mechanics published in 2011 (Sun & Jin, Fracture Mechanics 1e, Elsevier). He has taught 11 undergraduate and graduate courses including Mechanical Engineering Analysis at the University of Maine.
