iMechanica - Fracture Mechanics Book - Comments

excellent

Farid Touaiti — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:12:24 -0400

thank you very much.

thanks its very useful

ashwath.nr — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:19:25 -0500

Ashwath NR
Solid Mechanics Division
Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
chennai-600036
India

Thanks

kisnaforme — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:02:47 -0500

Thank you

Its very useful...

Muni

thanks

irfan ucun — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:48:41 -0500

MR. Zehnder, thank you.

It's very useful for I

ucun

Please Explain...Dynamic J-integral

Nguyen Chau Linh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:05:14 -0500

Dear Alls;

Would you please explain for me why Dynamic J-integral increases when crack propagates, and why Dynamic J-integral are independent with difference paths.

Best Regards;

Chau

Need help

damoonmoetamedi — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:34:15 -0400

Dear Mr.Zehnder,

I start studying about crack tip with complex varaible and boundry value.

I studied Mr.Suo note about advanced elasticity.Please let me know about any notes or refrences.

Thanks

Damoon

Wish I had seen this earlier!

Dhruv Bhate — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:44:28 -0400

Prof. Zehnder,
This looks like a very valuable set of notes. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.

Thanks

Hüsnü Dal — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:52:47 -0500

I have recently started going over the book and found it very useful. Especially for the researchers not familiar with the notion of Fracture Mechanics before, the book presents the subjects in a self consistent way. The formulations are presented with proofs from basic to academic level.

Thank you Alan for sharing it with us.

Re: Fracture mechanics book

N. Sukumar — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:46:23 -0500

Alan,

Thanks for the post and link. I just viewed the book online (shall print it out) and found the topics that are presented to be very well-chosen and pertinent. I do not know any text (off-hand) that integrates theory, experiments, and computational methods for fracture all in one place, and you have managed to strike a balance to achieve this end. I am most familiar with the computational approaches you've touched-upon and they immediately resonated. Also included is a comprehensive (within the space constraints) treatment of elastic-plastic fracture, a topic that is difficult to digest (imo) by reading just the scientific literature. This transition would be eased if one consults the book first. The book is a great resource for one who is interested in fracture mechanics, and it can be adopted as a textbook for a two-quarter course offering in fracture mechanics.

Thanks

Yuval Freed — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:29:36 -0500

It is very useful. --
Yuval

Fracture Mechanics Book

Alan Zehnder — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:53:03 -0500

Over the past two years I've written up (or LaTex'd) a set of lecture notes on fracture mechanics. If you are interested you will find them at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3075 in hyperlinked .pdf format. I've condensed a lot of material into these notes including LEFM, elastic-plastic fracture, experimental methods and some basics on computational fracture, so nothing is given in great detail. Of course a lot more could be done, but this served well for a one semester graduate class. The first reference in my notes is to Hutchinson's Course on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics, the only useful text that we had to hang onto at Caltech when taking Rosakis's fracture course in the mid-80's.