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Submitted by Rajesh Prasad on
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I teach Materials Science to undergraduate engineering students. We devote 2 or 3 lectures on Fracture where we mainly introduce Griffith's formula and the stress intensity formula. I face a difficulty in reconciling the two which I would lke to present here.

The Griffiths equation gives the fracture stress s for a given crack size c:

s=sqrt[2 E g/ (p c)] (1)

The stress concentration formula gives the max stress at the crack tip as

s=s0 [1+2 sqrt (c/r)] (2)

damage mechanics

Submitted by nilesh on

Hi , I am a  working on a project of  Continuum Damage mechanics in Composite . But  I do not have much idea about Damage mechanics . I am getting lot of diffculites to understand this topic .

   So please  anyone let me know any basic literature, lecture notes where I can find all basic information about Damage mechanics .

Thanks in Advance,

Regards. 

 

 

Does a radially expanding cylinder bend?

Submitted by Amit Acharya on

 The Koiter-Sanders-Budiansky bending strain measure and a nonlinear generalization

 We know from strength of materials that non-uniform stretching of fibers along the cross section of a beam produces bending moments. But does this situation necessarily correspond to a 'bending' deformation? For that matter, what do we exactly mean kinematically when we talk about a bending deformation?

Review of a few "Unified" Viscoplasticity Models (Motivated by solder deformation)

Submitted by yoursdhruly on

I had prepared this document for a class project, the level is introductory and the selection of models is motivated by solder deformation, but I hope it is of some help. I have examined four models, proposed by Hart, Anand, Krempl and Busso. The document has 16 pages.

Thanks,

Dhruv

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