Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

The book presents the principles of Damage Mechanics along with the latest research findings. Both isotropic and anisotropic damage mechanisms are presented. Various damage models are presented coupled with elastic and elasto-plastic behavior. The book includes two chapters that are solely dedicated to experimental investigations conducted by the authors. In its last chapter, the book presents experimental data for damage in composite materials that appear in the literature for the first time. Systematic treatment of damage mechanics in composite materials Includes special and advanced topics Includes basic principles of damage mechanics Includes new experimental data that appears in print for the first time Covers both metals and metal matrix composite materials Includes new chapters on fabric tensors Second edition includes four new chapters.

Uniaxial tension in metals -- Uniaxial tension in elastic metal matric composites -- Uniaxial tension in elasto-plastic metal matric composites : vector formulation of the overall approach -- Damage and elasticity in metals -- Damage and plasticity in metals -- Metal matrix composites : overall approach -- Metal matrix composites : local approach -- Equivalence of the overall and local approaches -- Metal matrix composites : local and interfacial damage -- Symmetrization of the effective stress tensor -- Experimental damage investigation -- High cyclic fatigue damage for uni-directional metal matrix composites -- Anisotropic cyclic damage-plasticity models for metal matrix composites -- Damage in metal matrix composites using the generalized model cells -- The kinematics of damage for finite-strain elasto-plastic solids -- A coupled anisotropic damage model for the inelastic response of composite materials -- Damage mechanics and fabric tensors -- Continuum approach to damage mechanics of composite materials with fabric tensors -- Micromechanical approach to damage mechanics of composite materials with fabric tensors -- Experimental study and fabric tensor quantification of micro-crack distributions in composite materials.

Previous edition: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-708) and index.

Description based on print version record.