fracture mechanics

To the students of ES 242r / ENGM 940

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 15:19

Spring 2007

Thank you very much for taking this course. Some of the assignments of
the course will be done on iMechanica. The main purposes of these assignments are

to expose students to resources for life-long learning, and
to facilitate interactions among students who are taking the course from three campuses (Harvard, MIT and Nebraska).

Please take the following quick steps now.

Lecture 2--KIC

Submitted by John W. Hutchinson on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 16:42

fracture specimens and KIC

Lecture 1

Submitted by John W. Hutchinson on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 20:56

The slides for lecture 1 are attached.

Fracture Mechanics Book - Update

Submitted by Alan Zehnder on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 03:53

John Hutchinson's Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics (Pages Rotated)

Submitted by Daniel S. Balint on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 10:57

Attached to this post are the notes John posted in his blog, with all pages rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees, for those who would like to read them on their computers.

Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics

Submitted by John W. Hutchinson on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 19:03

These are the notes I wrote at the Technical University of Denmark in 1979. Zhigang Suo and I will be using these in the course on fracture and thin film mechanics (ES 242r) this spring (2007). This is a joint course with the University of Nebraska.

Engineering Sciences 242r: Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Composite Materials

Submitted by John W. Hutchinson on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 18:17

Time. Thursday and Tuesday. 1:30-3:00 pm (Harvard University), 12:30-2:2:00 pm (University of Nebraska). First meeting: 1 February 2007

Place. Harvard University: Fairchild 102 (map). University of Nebraska: 111 Walter Scott Engineering Center

Course website (this page): node/754

Instructors

A short paper on T-stress of an interfacial crack in a bi-material strip

Submitted by Jae-Hyun Kim on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 20:46

research

fracture mechanics

vlassak_research_group

The attached file is on T-stress of an interfacial crack in a bi-material strip. The geometry of the problem is the same with that of Suo and Hutchinson (1990, IJF). Using a conservation integral technique, a formula for T-stress is derived with two numerical factors.

Damage Accumulation and Fracture Initiation in Uncracked Ductile Solids

Submitted by Liang Xue on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 15:06

doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.12.026

Damage accumulation and fracture initiation in uncracked ductile solids subject to triaxial loading

Liang Xue, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 44, Issue 16, 1 August 2007, Pages 5163-5181