iMechanica - Fracture Mechanics Book - Comments

Thank you for E-book

pnw402 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:54:18 -0400

Thank you for E-book

thank you very much for this book

SAURABH KUMAR YADAV — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:17:50 -0500

thank you very much for this book

Thanks for the notes

Weixing Zhou — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:54:30 -0400

Can you recommend some good books on computational fracture mechanics? I'm not looking at advanced numerical method such as EFEM but comprehensive discussion on domain integral with finite element method etc. Thanks!

A small question on plastic zone correction, Page 185

Heqin Xu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:49:25 -0400

On page 185,

...

where a in the above is replaced by

aeff = a + φry

...

φ = 1/(1+(p/p0)2)

Is it correct to have φ = 1/(1+(M/M0)2) if bending moment is considered? I have searched Kumar's EPRI reports and could not get any clue.

Many thanks if anybody can help.

Heqin Xu, Ph.D.

Senior Mechanical Engineer

AREVA NP Inc

Lynchburg,VA 24501

K factor, J intergral difference

singhvirat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:01:52 -0500

can any one tell me what is the difference between K factor and J integral. how can i simulate a crack in FEM software ansys. what are the important considerations while simulating.

Thank you good work.

mixmagtmb — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:52:37 -0500

Thank you good work.

excellent

Farid Touaiti — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:12:24 -0400

thank you very much.

thanks its very useful

ashwath.nr — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:19:25 -0500

Ashwath NR
Solid Mechanics Division
Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
chennai-600036
India

Thanks

kisnaforme — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:02:47 -0500

Thank you

Its very useful...

Muni

thanks

irfan ucun — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:48:41 -0500

MR. Zehnder, thank you.

It's very useful for I

ucun

Please Explain...Dynamic J-integral

Nguyen Van Chau — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:05:14 -0500

Dear Alls;

Would you please explain for me why Dynamic J-integral increases when crack propagates, and why Dynamic J-integral are independent with difference paths.

Best Regards;

Chau

Need help

damoonmoetamedi — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:34:15 -0400

Dear Mr.Zehnder,

I start studying about crack tip with complex varaible and boundry value.

I studied Mr.Suo note about advanced elasticity.Please let me know about any notes or refrences.

Thanks

Damoon

Wish I had seen this earlier!

Dhruv Bhate — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:44:28 -0400

Prof. Zehnder,
This looks like a very valuable set of notes. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.

Thanks

Hüsnü Dal — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:52:47 -0500

I have recently started going over the book and found it very useful. Especially for the researchers not familiar with the notion of Fracture Mechanics before, the book presents the subjects in a self consistent way. The formulations are presented with proofs from basic to academic level.

Thank you Alan for sharing it with us.

Re: Fracture mechanics book

N. Sukumar — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:46:23 -0500

Alan,

Thanks for the post and link. I just viewed the book online (shall print it out) and found the topics that are presented to be very well-chosen and pertinent. I do not know any text (off-hand) that integrates theory, experiments, and computational methods for fracture all in one place, and you have managed to strike a balance to achieve this end. I am most familiar with the computational approaches you've touched-upon and they immediately resonated. Also included is a comprehensive (within the space constraints) treatment of elastic-plastic fracture, a topic that is difficult to digest (imo) by reading just the scientific literature. This transition would be eased if one consults the book first. The book is a great resource for one who is interested in fracture mechanics, and it can be adopted as a textbook for a two-quarter course offering in fracture mechanics.

Fracture Mechanics Book

Alan Zehnder — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:53:03 -0500

Over the past two years I've written up (or LaTex'd) a set of lecture notes on fracture mechanics. If you are interested you will find them at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3075 in hyperlinked .pdf format. I've condensed a lot of material into these notes including LEFM, elastic-plastic fracture, experimental methods and some basics on computational fracture, so nothing is given in great detail. Of course a lot more could be done, but this served well for a one semester graduate class. The first reference in my notes is to Hutchinson's Course on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics, the only useful text that we had to hang onto at Caltech when taking Rosakis's fracture course in the mid-80's.