Engineering Mechanics 388F: Fracture Mechanics

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

Lecture notes 

Homework Sets

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.