Ebook: Nonlinear Crack Models for Nonmetallic Materials

In this volume a survey of the most relevant nonlinear crack models is provided, with the purpose of analyzing the nonlinear mechanical effects occurring at the tip of macrocracks in quasi-brittle materials - such as concrete, rocks, ceramics, polymers, high-strength metallic alloys - and in brittle-matrix fibre-reinforced composites. Such local effects, as, for example, plastic deformation, yielding, strain-hardening, strain-softening, mechanical damage, matrix microcracking, aggregate debonding, fibre bridging, fibre slippage, crazing, and so on, are properly described through different simplified models, representing the peculiarities of the phenomena involved. The models are introduced and described separately and then compared in the last part of the book.
This volume will be of interest to students, professionals and researchers in the field of nonlinear fracture mechanics.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-25
The Damage Crack Model....Pages 27-76
The Cohesive Crack Model....Pages 77-139
The Bridged-Crack Model....Pages 141-208
The Microcrack-Interacting Model....Pages 209-284
Comparisons and Conclusions....Pages 285-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-316

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-25
The Damage Crack Model....Pages 27-76
The Cohesive Crack Model....Pages 77-139
The Bridged-Crack Model....Pages 141-208
The Microcrack-Interacting Model....Pages 209-284
Comparisons and Conclusions....Pages 285-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-316
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