FRACTURE MECHANICS

• Introduction - what fracture mechanics is all about and how various aspects of tradtional safety appraisal relate to it.
• Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics ( LEFM ) : introduction to the elastic stress field in front of a crack - the field's implications and its intensity. Fracture toughness as a measure of resistance to cracking.
• The influence of plasticity on the stress field in front of the crack tip; perfectly plastic behaviour.
• Elastic-plastic interaction - an introduction to yielding fracture mechanics.
• A brief introduction to crack growth kinetics at the atomic level.   ( Adobe Acrobat is required to view this   .pdf   page )

• Bibliography
• Problems
• Solutions

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