Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
Subtitle: Volume II: Viscoplasticity, Damage, Fracture and Contact Mechanics
By: by Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui
Contributors: Pineau, André; Zaoui, André
Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications -- 58; Solid Mechanics and Its Applications -- 58
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9789048149742; 9789401704984
Subjects: Mechanics; Surfaces (Physics)
Description: Designing new structural materials, extending lifetimes and guarding against fracture in service are among the preoccupations of engineers, and to deal with these they need to have command of the mechanics of material behaviour. The first volume of this two-volume work deals with elastic and elastoplastic behaviour; this second volume continues with viscoelasticity, damage, fracture (resistance to cracking) and contact mechanics. As in Volume I, the treatment starts from the active mechanisms on the microscopic scale and develops the laws of macroscopic behaviour. Chapter I deals with viscoplastic behaviour, as shown, for example, at low temperatures by the effects of oscillatory loads and at high temperatures by creep under steady load. Chapter 2 treats damage phenomena encountered in all materials - for example, metals, polymers, glasses, concretes - such as cavitation, fatigue and stress-corrosion cracking. Chapter 3 treats those concepts of fracture mechanics that are needed for the understanding of resistance to cracking and Chapter 4 completes the volume with a survey of the main concepts of contact mechanics. As with Volume I, each chapter has a set of exercises, either with solutions or with indications of how to attack the problem; and there are many explanatory diagrams and other illustrations.
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Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: 1. Various types of damage; title: 2. Fracture mechanics; title: 3. Brittle fracture; title: 4. Ductile fracture; title: 5. Ductile-brittle transition; title: 6. Fatigue; title: 7. Environment assited cracking; title: 8. Creep-fatigue-oxidation interactions; title: 9. Contact mechanics - friction and wear; title: 10. Damage and fracture on non-metallic materials; title: Appendix A Diffusion coefficients.