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Fracture mechanics

Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture.

Linear elastic fracture mechanics, Elastic–plastic fracture mechanics & Overview

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Linear elastic fracture mechanics

A. A. GriffithGlassLinear elasticityElasticThermodynamic
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Elastic–plastic fracture mechanics

RiceBrown UniversityDeformation theoryPlane stressBarenblatt
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MechanicsSolid mechanicsFractureElasticStress intensity factor
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Atomistic Fracture Mechanics

Atomic scaleMicrostructureMolecular Dynamics
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Linear elastic fracture mechanics

Elastic–plastic fracture mechanics

Concrete fracture analysis

Atomistic Fracture Mechanics

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Fracture mechanics

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related to Further reading · 63
Fracture mechanics → Academic Press, Adrian, Alan, An Introduction, Applications, B978-0-12-394584-6, Bockrath, Boston, Brittle Solids, Buckley, Burak Erman, Cambridge, Cambridge Solid State Science, Ceramics, Chapman, Chapter, Chen, Clarke, Constance Fligg, Davidge
see also · 12
Fracture mechanics → AFGROW, Damage, Earth's, Externally-produced, Failure, Field, Fracture, Growth, Initiation, Non-local, Science, Sudden
related to External links · 11
Fracture mechanics → Fracture, Harvard UniversityFracture Mechanics, Harvard UniversityNotes, John Hutchinson, Multilayers, Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics Notes, Piet Schreurs, Prof, The Netherlands, Thin Films, TU Eindhoven
related to CTOD · 10
Fracture mechanics → CTOD, He, Historically, In, Note, Rice, The, There, This, Wells
related to Crack tip plastic zone · 9
Fracture mechanics → Cartesian, For, From, In, Irwin, Nevertheless, The, This, To
related to R-curve · 8
Fracture mechanics → An, Crack, However, Irwin's, R-curve, The, The R-curve, This
related to Transition flaw size · 8
Fracture mechanics → Based, Ic, If, Let, The, These, This, When
related to Griffith's criterion · 7
Fracture mechanics → English, Fracture, Griffith, Griffith's, MPa, The, World War
related to Limitations · 7
Fracture mechanics → But, Fracture, However, Irwin's, Linear-elastic, NRL, One
related to Atomistic Fracture Mechanics · 6
Fracture mechanics → AFM, Atomistic Fracture Mechanics, By, It, MD, Molecular Dynamics

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crack fracture stress energy tip plastic mechanics displaystyle material elastic materials intensity zone growth size used loading factor deformation brittle

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Fracture mechanicsis afield of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials0.90text
Fracture mechanicsis aanalysis of flaws to discover those that are safe0.90text
the J-integral or the crack tip opening displacement.The characterising parameter describes the state of the crack tip which can then be related to experimental conditions to ensure similitudeinstance ofelastic-plastic fracture mechanics can be used with parameters0.80text
glassinstance ofin structural materials there are always some inelastic deformations around the crack front that would make the assumption of linear elastic medium with infinite stresses at the…0.80text
steelinstance ofFor ductile materials0.80text
although the relation σ f ainstance ofFor ductile materials0.80text
glassinstance ofFor brittle materials0.80text
the surface energy term dominatesinstance ofFor brittle materials0.80text
Ginstance ofFor brittle materials0.80text
the plastic dissipation term dominatesinstance ofFor ductile materials0.80text
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Fracture mechanicsrelated to Atomistic Fracture MechanicsAtomistic Fracture Mechanics0.60section

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