Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology, 2014 Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July 2012

Foreword

Modeling fracture by material-point erosion

Crack front perturbations revisited

Localisation near defects and filtering of flexural waves in structured plates

Fracture process in cortical bone: X-FEM analysis of microstructured models

Minimum theorems in 3D incremental linear elastic fracture mechanics

Crack patterns obtained by unidirectional drying of a colloidal suspension in a capillary tube: experiments and numerical simulations using a two-dimensional variational approach

Damage mechanisms in the dynamic fracture of nominally brittle polymers

Tight sedimentary covers for CO sequestration

Calibration of brittle fracture models by sharp indenters and inverse analysis

Statistics of ductile fracture surfaces: the effect of material parameters

Efficient pseudo-spectral solvers for the PKN model of hydrofracturing

A solution to the parameter-identification conundrum: multi-scale interaction potentials

Remarks on application of different variables for the PKN model of hydrofracturing: various fluid-flow regimes

Prediction of grain boundary stress fields and microcrack initiation induced by slip band impingement

Modeling the heterogeneous effects of retained austenite on the behavior of martensitic high strength steels

Crack nucleation from a notch in a ductile material under shear dominant loading

Cutting-edge contributions in fracture research keep the reader up to date

Accomplished scientists address crucial issues on fracturephenomena in nature and technology

Questions that need to be answered in a broad class of engineering and structural mechanics areas are posed

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras