Fracture Mechanics: Mixed-Mode Energy Release Rate

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Explores fracture, toughness, and crack propagation in materials, emphasizing surface energy and material resistance.

Discusses stress concentrations, modulus mismatch, and eigenstrains in materials.

Explores crack-tip energy dissipation, cohesive zone modeling, stress intensity, and small-scale yielding in fracture mechanics.

Covers kinematics, deformation mapping, rigid body translation, rotation, stretching, shearing, and the deformation gradient tensor.

Explores crack tip plasticity in materials, emphasizing the importance of the plastic zone in crack resistance.

Explores slow cracking, corrosion in ceramics, sabering champagne bottles, and material fracture mechanics.

Explores crack-tip energy dissipation, the Cohesive Zone concept, and Atomistic Cohesive Zone Law in fracture mechanics.

Explores the Eshelby method for ellipsoidal inclusions and the mechanics of particles undergoing shape changes due to eigenstrains.

Covers exercises on fracture mechanics, stress factors, and material behavior.

Explores the rigorous bounds on effective properties of isotropic phases and laminated plates.