Mechanics and Physics of Energy Density
Subtitle: Characterization of material/structure behaviour with and without damage
By: by George C. Sih, Emmanuel E. Gdoutos
Contributors: Gdoutos, Emmanuel E.
Series: Engineering Application of Fracture Mechanics -- 9; Engineering application of fracture mechanics -- 9.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789400919549
Description: Material technology has become so diversified in theories and the construction of novel microstructures that the researchers and practitioners are drifting further apart. This book is based on material presented at an International Symposium in Xanthi, Greece in July 1989. The symposium attracted a group of <em>individual</em> engineers and scientists from the East and West who tackled the question of why particular manipulations of a given material have particular effects. Emphasis is laid on the strain energy function because of the versatile role it plays in mechanics and physics. It has been used successfully not only in predicting the failure of solids but also in formulating constitutive relations in continuum mechanics. <br/> The material presented falls within the areas of: Fundamentals of Strain Energy Density, Damage Analysis on Strain Energy Density, Strain Energy Density as Failure Criterion, Applications, and Composites. <br/>