Finite Elements in Fracture Mechanics: Theory - Numerics - Applications

✍ Scribed by Meinhard Kuna (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 464
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications 201
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fracture mechanics has established itself as an important discipline of growing interest to those working to assess the safety, reliability and service life of engineering structures and materials. In order to calculate the loading situation at cracks and defects, nowadays numerical techniques like finite element method (FEM) have become indispensable tools for a broad range of applications. The present monograph provides an introduction to the essential concepts of fracture mechanics, its main goal being to procure the special techniques for FEM analysis of crack problems, which have to date only been mastered by experts. All kinds of static, dynamic and fatigue fracture problems are treated in two- and three-dimensional elastic and plastic structural components. The usage of the various solution techniques is demonstrated by means of sample problems selected from practical engineering case studies. The primary target group includes graduate students, researchers in academia and engineers in practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Classification of Fracture Processes....Pages 13-20
Basics of Fracture Mechanics....Pages 21-151
Finite Element Method....Pages 153-192
FE-Techniques for Crack Analysis in Linear-Elastic Structures....Pages 193-261
Numerical Calculation of Generalized Energy Balance Integrals....Pages 263-304
FE-Techniques for Crack Analysis in Elastic-Plastic Structures....Pages 305-325
Numerical Simulation of Crack Propagation....Pages 327-359
Practical Applications....Pages 361-389
Back Matter....Pages 391-447

✦ Subjects

Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials;Materials Science, general;Computational Science and Engineering