Download or read book The Application of Continuum Damage Mechanics to Solve Problems in Geodynamics written by David Martin Manaker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuum Mechanics Aspects of Geodynamics and Rock Fracture Mechanics written by P. Thoft-Christensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a NATO Advanced Study Institute in Izmir, Tur key, July 1973 on Modern Developments in Engineering Seis mology and Earthquake Engineering it emerged that a debate on Continuum Mechanics Aspects of Geodynamics and Rock Fracture Mechanics would be very welcome. Therefore, it was decided to seek NATO sponsorship for an Advanced Study In stitute on this subject. The purpose of the new Advanced Study Institute was to provide a link between mechanics of continuum media and geo dynamic s. By bringing together a group of leading scientists from the above two fields and participants actively engaged in research and applications in the same fields, it was believed that fruitful discussions could emerge to facilitate an exchange of knowledge, experience and newly-conceived ideas. The Institute aimed primarily at the solution of such problems as connected with the study of stress and strain con ditions in the Earth, generic causes of earthquakes, energy release and focal mechanism and seismic wave propagation in troducing modern methods of continuum and rock fracture mechanics. Secondly to inspire scientists working in continuum mechanics to open new avenues of research connected with the above problems, and seismologists to adapt modern, advanced methods of continuum and rock fracture mechanics to their work.

Download or read book Geodynamics written by Donald L. Turcotte and published by . This book was released on 1982-05-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and quantitative study of the fundamental aspects of plate tectonics. Provides an introduction to heat flow, elasticity and flexure, fluid mechanics, faulting, gravity, and flow in porous media, with a wide range of geological applications. Contains detailed coverage of mantle convection and mantle rheology. Includes a wide variety of practical problems.

Download or read book Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications written by Wohua Zhang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications" presents a systematic development of the theory of Continuum Damage Mechanics and its numerical engineering applications using a unified form of the mathematical formulations in anisotropic and isotropic damage models. The theoretical framework is based on the thermodynamic theory of energy and material dissipation and is described by a set of fundamental formulations of constitutive equations of damaged materials, development equations of the damaged state, and evolution equations of micro-structures. According to concepts of damage-dissipation of the material state and effective evolution of material properties, all these advanced equations, which take nonsymmetrized effects of damage aspects into account, are developed and modified from the traditional general failure models so they are more easily applied and verified in a wide range of engineering practices by experimental testing. Dr. Wohua Zhang is a Professor at Engineering Mechanics Research Center in Zhejiang University of China. Dr. Yuanqiang Cai is a Professor at Department of Civil Engineering in Zhejiang University of China.

Download or read book Continuum Damage Mechanics of Materials and Structures written by O. Allix and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1975, LMT-Cachan is a joint laboratory École Normale Superieure de Cachan, Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris 6) University and the French Research Council CNRS (Department of Engineering Sciences). The Year 2000 marked the 25th anniversary of LMT. On this occasion, a series of lectures was organized in Cachan in September-October, 2000. This publication contains peer-reviewed proceedings of these lectures and is aimed to present engineers and scientists with an overview of the latest developments in the field of damage mechanics. The formulation of damage models and their identification procedures were discussed for a variety of materials.

Download or read book Continuum Mechanics Aspects of Geodynamics and Rock Fracture Mechanics written by P Thoft-Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1974-12-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to continuum damage mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuum damage mechanics written by Michel Hendrik Julius Wilhelm Paas and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theoretical Derivation and Numerical Implementation of Continuum Damage Based Constitutive Equations written by Nima Salajegheh and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuum Mechanics Aspects of Geodynamics and Rock Fracture Mechanics written by Palle Thoft-Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuum Damage Mechanics Critical States Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this research was to examine a variety of critical states and failure modes that take place in typical engineering materials characterized by an inferior cohesive (fracture) strength and disordered microstructure. The focus of this research was placed on the determination of the circumstances (type of loading, stress fields, size and shape of the specimen, temperature and environmental conditions) that lead to the onset of critical behavior and the relation of the criticality model to the material texture on the microscopic scale. The strategy used in the work on this grant was to modify the methods of statistical physics and applied these models to the problems of failure of materials weakened by many microcracks and micro-voids distributed over a large part of their volume. Introduction of microstructural disorder and the concept of the correlation length provide a suitable statistical basis for the rigorous determination of the criteria that must be satisfied for a volume of the material to be statistically homogeneous. Using the models of micromechanics and statistical physics it was possible to solve many problems of interest and provide a better insight into brittle behavior and failure of materials such as ceramics, rocks, concrete, resins, etc. Most of the considered failure modes are related to the transition from a statistically homogeneous state to a state that was not homogeneous. The transition is not instantaneous and its rate is proportional to the mass of the larger cluster of defects. All pathological features of continuum models are eliminated and simple tests for the determination of the cluster volume were suggested.

Download or read book Solution of Crack Problems written by D.A. Hills and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the numerical solution of crack problems. The techniques to be developed are particularly appropriate when cracks are relatively short, and are growing in the neighbourhood of some stress raising feature, causing a relatively steep stress gradient. It is therefore practicable to represent the geometry in an idealised way, so that a precise solution may be obtained. This contrasts with, say, the finite element method in which the geometry is modelled exactly, but the subsequent solution is approximate, and computationally more taxing. The family of techniques presented in this book, based loosely on the pioneering work of Eshelby in the late 1950's, and developed by Erdogan, Keer, Mura and many others cited in the text, present an attractive alternative. The basic idea is to use the superposition of the stress field present in the unfiawed body, together with an unknown distribution of 'strain nuclei' (in this book, the strain nucleus employed is the dislocation), chosen so that the crack faces become traction-free. The solution used for the stress field for the nucleus is chosen so that other boundary conditions are satisfied. The technique is therefore efficient, and may be used to model the evolution of a developing crack in two or three dimensions. Solution techniques are described in some detail, and the book should be readily accessible to most engineers, whilst preserving the rigour demanded by the researcher who wishes to develop the method itself.

Download or read book Special Issue Advances in Continuum Damage Mechanics written by K. Saanouni and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Aspects of Continuum Damage Mechanics and Strain Softening written by Juan C. Simo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Numerical Analysis of Continuum Damage Mechanics written by Wohua Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Discussion of Continuum Damage Mechanics written by Nigel Graham Shrive and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Numerical Geodynamic Modelling written by Taras Gerya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly reference for students and researchers presents the basic mathematical theory, before introducing modelling of key geodynamic processes.