Spall Fracture

by Antoun, Tarabay; Seaman, Lynn; Curran, Donald R.; Kanel, G. I.; Razorenov, Sergey; Utkin, Alexander; Antoun, Tarabay

• ISBN13: 9780387955001
• ISBN10: 0387955003
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Shock-induced dynamic fracture of solids is of practical importance in many areas of materials science, chemical physics, engineering, and geophysics. This book, by an international roster of authors, comprises a systematic account of the current state of research in the field, integrating the large amount of work done in the former Soviet Union with the work done in the West.Topics covered include: Wave propagation, experimental techniques and measurements, spallation of materials of different classes (metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers), constitutive models of fracture processes, and computer simulations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Wave Propagation	p. 37
Experimental Techniques	p. 59
Interpretation of Experimental Pullback Spall Signals	p. 93
Spallation in Materials of Different Classes	p. 137
Constitutive Modeling Approaches and Computer Simulation Techniques	p. 175
Nucleation-and-Growth-Based Constitutive Models for Dynamic Fracture	p. 217
Applications of the Nucleation-and-Growth Fracture Method	p. 267
Concluding Remarks	p. 301
Velocity Histories in Spalling Samples	p. 305
References	p. 379
Index	p. 399
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