Comment: “A note on the fracture mechanics energy balance for perfectly plastic materials,”

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00116011

✦ Synopsis

same p o i n t was made by P r o f e s s o r Rice d u r i n g d i s c u s s i o n o f t h e e n e r g y b a l a n c e p a r a d o x a t t h e F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e on Numerical Methods in F r a c t u r e Mechanics h e l d a t Swansea in J a n u a r y 1978. When we wrote our n o t e , we were aware o f our p o s s i b l e m i s i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f t h e meaning o f t h e s u r f a c e A o, but we hoped t h i s would be c l a r i f i e d by P r o f e s s o r Rice when we c o n t a c t e d him about t h i s m a t t e r p r i o r to p u b l i c a t i o n .