Size-Scale Effects in the Failure Mechanisms of Materials and Structures

by Alberto Carpinteri (Editor)

Overview

Invited international contributions to this exciting new research field are included in this volume. It contains the specially selected papers from 45 key specialists given at the Symposium held under the auspices of the prestigious International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Turin in October 1994.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040214312
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	612
File size:	28 MB
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Table of Contents

Preface, Scientific Committee, Official picture of the Symposium, PART ONE RENORMALIZATION AND SCALING LAWS, PART TWO FRACTALITY AND SELF-SIMILARITY, PART THREE DISORDER AND STATISTICS, PART FOUR CONTINUUM MODELS, PART FIVE DISCRETE MODELS, PART SIX QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS, PART SEVEN DUCTILE MATERIALS, PART EIGHT DYNAMIC FRACTURE AND IMPACT, Author index, Subject index, Let us cement our friendship (poem by Cirdec Renrut)