Fracture Scaling

by Bazant, Zdenek P.; Rajapakse, Yapa D. S.

• ISBN13: 9780792358251
• ISBN10: 0792358252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Provides a collection of papers given at the work- shop on Fracture Scaling, held at the University of Maryland, June 10-12, 1999, under the sponsor- ship of the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1. Micromechanical Analysis
Models of interface separation accompanied by plastic dissipation at multiple scales	1	(18)
Y. Wei
J.W. Hutchinson
The effects of heterogeneity and an-isotropy on the size effect in cracked polycrystalline films	19	(22)
R. Ballarini
R.L. Mullen
A.H. Heuer
Size effect relations associated with cohesive zone type fracture at a blunt stress concentration	41	(10)
E. Smith
Scaling laws for elastoplastic fracture	51	(16)
A.G. Atkins
Part 2. Size Effects in Fiber Composites
Scale effects in the initiation of cracking of a scarf Joints	67	(22)
D. Liu
N.A. Fleck
Size effect in fracture of unidirectional composite plates	89	(14)
G.J. Dvorak
A.P. Suvorov
Size effect on compression strength of fiber composites failing by kink band propagation	103	(40)
Z.P. Bazant
J.-J.H. Kim
I.M. Daniel
E. Becq-Giraudon
G. Li
Is there a thickness effect on compressive strength of unnotched composite laminates?	143	(16)
I.M. Daniel
H.M. Hsiao
Part 3. Scaling and Heterogeneity
Failure and Scaling properties of a softening interface connected to an elastic block	159	(16)
A. Delaplace
S. Roux
G. Pijaudier-Cabot
A Model for predicting grain boundary cracking in polycrystalline viscoplastic materials including scale effects	175	(20)
K.L.E Helms
D.H. Allen
L.D. Hurtado
Effect of strain gradients on the size effect of concrete in uniaxial tension	195	(26)
M.R.A. Van Vliet
J.G.M. Van Mier
Scaling phenomena due to fractal contact in concrete and rock fractures	221	(18)
M. Borri-Brunetto
A. Carpinteri
B. Chiaia
Fractals and Fractal scaling in fracture mechanics	239	(22)
F.M. Borodich
Part 4. Computational Aspects and Nonlocal or Gradient Models
A unified framework for concrete damage and fracture models including size effects	261	(18)
R. De Borst
M.A. Gutierrez
Finite element simulation of ring expansion and fragmentation: The capturing of length and time scales through cohesive models of fracture	279	(20)
A. Pandolfi
P. Krysl
M. Ortiz
Strain gradient interpretation of size effects	299	(16)
E.C. Aifantis
Use of neural networks for fitting of FE Probabilistic scaling model parameters	315	(10)
E.M.R. Fairbairn
C.N.M. Paz
N.F.F. Ebecken
F.-J. Ulm
Part 5. Size Effects in Concrete, Ice and Soils
Scale effects on the in-situ tensile strength and fracture of ice, Part 1: Large grained freshwater ice at Spray Lakes Reservoir, Alberta	325	(22)
J.P. Dempsey
S.J. Defranco
R.M. Adamson
S.V. Mulmule
Scale effects on the in-situ tensile strength and fracture of ice. Part II: First-year sea ice at Resolute, N.W.T.	347	(20)
J.P. Dempsey
R.M. Adamson
S.V. Mulmule
Size effect and inverse analysis in concrete fracture	367	(12)
J. Planas
G.V. Guinea
M. Elices
Size effect in shallow and deep notched quasi-brittle structures	379	(12)
B.L. Karihaloo
Size effect on the concrete cone pullout load	391	(14)
J. Ozbolt
R. Eligehausen
H.W. Reinhardt
Fracture and size effect characters of cemented sand	405	(30)
S. Sture
A. Alquasabi
M. Ayari
Author index	435