Non-Linear Fracture

1. Damage.- Finite element analysis of void growth in elastic-plastic materials.- An analysis of decohesion along an imperfect interface.- Mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue crack growth in brittle solids.- Damage induced constitutive response of a thermoplastic related to composites and adhesive bonding.- Deformation processes in semi-brittle polycrystalline ceramics.- Micro-mechanics of crack initiation.- 2. Interfaces and Creep.- Elastic-plastic and asymptotic fields of interface cracks.- Effect of decohesion and sliding on bimaterial crack-tip fields.- Elastic-plastic analysis of frictionless contact at interfacial crack tips.- Effect of microstructure degradation on creep crack growth.- Influence of damage on crack-tip fields under small-scale-creep conditions.- Creep crack growth under small-scale-creep conditions.- On some path independent integrals and their use in fracture of nonlinear viscoelastic media.- 3. Time Dependence.- Dynamic measurement of the J integral in ductile metals: comparison of experimental and numerical techniques.- Plastic zone formation around an arresting crack.- Viscoplastic-dynamic crack propagation: experimental and analysis research for crack arrest applications in engineering structures.- Observations on high strain rate crack growth based on a strip yield model.- Computer demonstration of crack growth.- Some basic issues in dynamic crack growth in elastic-plastic solids.- 4. Continuum Plasticity.- Crack tip fields in ductile crystals.- Perturbation solution for near-tip fields of cracks growing in elastic perfectly-plastic compressible materials.- The influence of crack size on the fracture behaviour of short cracks.- Reduced crack growth ductility due to asymmetric configurations.- Crack tip parameters and elastic-plastic fracture of metals.- A study on the ductile fracture of Al-alloys 7075 and 2017.