Statistical Meso-Mechanics of Damage and Failure : How Microdamage Induces Disaster : Series Publication of Multiscale Mechanics /: How Microdamage Induces Disaster : Series Publication of Multiscale Mechanics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yilong Bai, Mengfen Xia, Fujiu Ke.
• Other Names: Bai, Yilong; Xia, Mengfen; Ke, Fujiu
• Contents: Introduction:Damage and failure of heterogeneous media: basic features and common characteristics.-Framework of statistical meso-mechanics: why and how statistical meso-mechanics is -- Mathematical essentials in statistical meso-mechanics -- Part A Quasi-statically Statistical Evolution of Deformation and Damage in Media with Mesoscopic Heterogeneities:Coupled average (CA) -- Elastic and statistically-brittle (ESB) constitutive model, Global mean field (GMF) approximation -- Continuous bifurcation and localization of deformation, Regional mean field (RMF) approximation -- Size effect -- Experimental issues related to statistical meso-mechanics -- Numerical issues related to heterogeneous meso-elements -- Application to failure wave (one-dimensional strain state) -- Application to metal foams -- Application to concrete under bi-axial compression -- Part B Time-Dependent Processes of Micro-damage Population: Background and methodology -- Fundamental equation of microdamage evolution -- General solution to evolution of microdamage number density -- Closed formulation of continuum damage based on microdamage evolution -- Deborah number and its significance in the evolution of microdamage -- Spallation -- tensile failure resulting from microcracks under stress waves -- Short fatigue cracks -- More cases of time-dependent processes related to microdamage -- Brief summary of Part B -- Part C Critical Catastrophe: Evolution induced catastrophe (EIC) -- Energy transfer and catastrophe considering damage localization -- Sample specificity and Trans-scale Sensitivity -- Critical Sensitivity and power-law singularity of catastrophe -- Great earthquake: the catastrophic rupture in Earths Crust -- Perspective.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (508 pages)
• Subjects: 353.9/5; Emergency management -- Statistical methods; Multiscale modeling; Multiscale modeling; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789813291928; 9813291923
• Related ISBNs: 9789813291911
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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