Mesoscopic Dynamics of Fracture: Computational Materials Design

ISBN-13: 9783642083969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 254 str.

Hiroshi Kitagawa; Tomoyasu Jr. Aihara; Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Opis

This book introduces recent theoretical developments concerning the dynamic behaviour of fracture. Readers learn how the recent development of molecular dynamics and other state-of-the-art methods can help to solve the important problem of fracture from the atomic level.

Spis treści

1. General Reviews, 2. Deformation and Fracture, 3. Criteria for Fracture, 4. Defects and Interfaces, 5. Electronic Structure Calculations, 6. New Computational Methods

Blurb

This book is a review of the present theoretical approaches to the understanding of the dynamic behaviour of fracture. Specifically, it collects recent works with a mesoscopic point of view. Starting from the first principles, standard classical molecular dynamics and elastic theoretical treatment are applied to realistic problems. A review article written by Professor Luc Wille, followed by about 20 high-quality papers, each having specific topics, are included.