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Engineering Mechanics 388F: Fracture Mechanics
Sat, 2008-01-12 16:23 - Rui Huang
Time: Monday and Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Place: WRW 312, University of Texas at Austin
Instructor: Rui Huang, WRW 117D, (512) 471-7558, ruihuang@mail.utexas.edu
Term Papers (with links to abstracts, presentation slides and final reports)
Auxiliary notes
- J. W. Hutchinson, Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics
- J. W. Hutchinson and Z. Suo, ES 242r Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Composite Materials
- J. W. Hutchinson and Z. Suo, Mixed-Mode Cracking in Layered Materials
- J. W. Hutchinson, Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayers
- Z. Suo, Reliability of interconnect structures
Online resources
- Alan Zehnder, Fracture Mechanics Book.
- Piet Schreurs, Fracture Mechanics.
- C.H. Wang, Introduction to Fracture Mechanics
Offline resources
- B. Lawn, Fracture of Brittle Solids, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- H. Tada, P.C. Paris and G.R. Irwin, The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook, Del Research, St. Louis, MO., 1985.
- J.M. Barsom and S.T. Rolfe, Fracture & Fatigue Control in Structures, 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1987.
- L.B. Freund and S. Suresh, Thin Film Materials, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- S. Suresh, Fatigue of Materials, Cambridge University Press, 2006
- L.B. Freund, Dynamic Fracture Mechanics , Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- S.P. Timoshenko and J.N. Goodier, Theory of Elasticity, McGraw-Hill, New York.
Brief Outline of Topics
- Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM). Small scale yielding. Stress intensity factors. Energy release rate. Mixed mode fracture. Interface fracture.
- Application I: fracture in thin films and layered materials. Channel cracks. Interfacial delamination. Buckle-delamination.
- Fatigue and environmentally assisted cracking
- Nonlinear fracture mechanics. J integrals. Cohesive zone modeling. Large scale yielding
- Application II: fracture of Composite materials. Toughening. Matrix cracking. Crack bridging.
- Introduction to computational fracture mechanics
- Introduction to dynamic fracture
Remarks
- Prerequisite: a graduate course on solid mechanics.
- No textbook is required. Notes will be posted periodically.
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