Fracture Mechanics in Layered and Graded Solids : Analysis Using Boundary Element Methods

✍ Scribed by Zhongqi Yue, Hongtian Xiao

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mechanical responses of solid materials are governed by their material properties. The solutions for estimating and predicting the mechanical responses are extremely difficult, in particular for non-homogeneous materials. Among these, there is a special type of materials whose properties are variable only along one direction, defined as graded materials or functionally graded materials (FGMs). Examples are plant stems and bones. Artificial graded materials are widely used in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, biological engineering, and electronic engineering.

This work covers and develops boundary element methods (BEM) to investigate the properties of realistic graded materials. This book is a must have for practitioners and researchers in materials science, both academic and in industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Frontmatter --
Preface --
Contents --
Chapter 1. Introduction --
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Elasticity and Fracture Mechanics --
Chapter 3. Yue’s Solution of a 3D Multilayered Elastic Medium --
Chapter 4. Yue’s Solution-based Boundary Element Method --
Chapter 5. Application of the Yue’s Solution-based BEM to Crack Problems --
Chapter 6. Analysis of Penny-shaped Cracks in Functionally Graded Materials --
Chapter 7. Analysis of Elliptical Cracks in Functionally Graded Materials --
Chapter 8. Yue’s Solution-based Dual Boundary Element Method --
Chapter 9. Analysis of Rectangular Cracks in the FGMs --
Chapter 10. Boundary element analysis of fracture mechanics in transversely isotropic bi-materials.

✦ Subjects

Boundary element methods.;Fracture mechanics.;Functionally gradient materials -- Fracture.;Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau.