Fracture Mechanics

Fracture Mechanics covers classical and modern methods and introduce new/unique techniques, making this text an important resource for anyone involved in the study or application of fracture mechanics. Using insights from leading experts in fracture mechanics, it provides new approaches and new applications to advance the understanding of crack initiation and propagation.

With a concise and easily understood mathematical treatment of crack tip fields, this book provides the basis for applying fracture mechanics in solving practical problems. It features a unique coverage of bi-material interfacial cracks, with applications to commercially important areas of composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging. A full chapter is devoted to the cohesive zone model approach, which has been extensively used in recent years to simulate crack propagation. A unified discussion of fracture criteria involving nonlinear/plastic deformations is also provided.

The book is an invaluable resource for mechanical, aerospace, civil, and biomedical engineers in the field of mechanics as well as for graduate students and researchers studying mechanics.

Introduction

Griffith Theory of Fracture

Elastic Stress Field Around a Crack Tip

Energy Release Rate

Mixed Mode Fracture

Crack Tip Plasticity

Elastic-Plastic Fracture Criteria

Interfacial Cracks Between Two Dissimilar Solids

Cohesive Zone Model

Appendix: Stress Intensity Factors

Graduate students and researchers studying mechanics. Appropriate for Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil, and Biomedical Engineers in the field of mechanics

Ph.D., Northwestern University 1967

Awards and Major Appointments

AIAA Fellow

ASME Fellow

ASC Fellow

Research Award for excellence in faculty research, Schools of Engineering, Purdue University, 2004.

ASTM Committee D-30 Wayne W. Stinchcomb Memorial Award

Research Areas

Current research interests include the following areas:

Composite Materials and Structures

Fractures Mechanics

Smart Materials -

Nanomaterials
Zhihe Jin is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1988. His research areas include fracture mechanics, thermal stresses, poromechanics, biomechanics and thermoelectricity. His research is mainly concerned with the mathematical theories and solutions of fracture, deformation, heat conduction, porous fluid flow and thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency. He has published more than 100 refereed journal papers and 6 book chapters. He also co-authored a textbook on fracture mechanics published in 2011 (Sun & Jin, Fracture Mechanics 1e, Elsevier). He has taught 11 undergraduate and graduate courses including Mechanical Engineering Analysis at the University of Maine.

• Concise and easily understood mathematical treatment of crack tip fields (chapter 3) provides the basis for applying fracture mechanics in solving practical problems
• Unique coverage of bi-material interfacial cracks (chapter 8), with applications to commercially important areas of composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging
• A full chapter (chapter 9) on the cohesive zone model approach, which has been extensively used in recent years to simulate crack propagation
• A unified discussion of fracture criteria involving nonlinear/plastic deformations