Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology   / ; Bigoni, Davide, ed.; Carini, Angelo, ed.; Gei, Massimiliano, ed.; Salvadori, Alberto, ed. -- Cham :Springer International Publishing :;Imprint: Springer,2014.

vi, 266 p. :

Foreword -- Modeling fracture by material-point erosion -- Crack front perturbations revisited -- Localisation near defects and filtering of flexural waves in structured plates -- Fracture process in cortical bone: X-FEM analysis of microstructured models -- Minimum theorems in 3D incremental linear elastic fracture mechanics -- Crack patterns obtained by unidirectional drying of a colloidal suspension in a capillary tube: experiments and numerical simulations using a two-dimensional variational approach -- Damage mechanisms in the dynamic fracture of nominally brittle polymers -- Tight sedimentary covers for CO sequestration -- Calibration of brittle fracture models by sharp indenters and inverse analysis -- Statistics of ductile fracture surfaces: the effect of material parameters -- Efficient pseudo-spectral solvers for the PKN model of hydrofracturing -- A solution to the parameter-identification conundrum: multi-scale interaction potentials -- Remarks on application of different variables for the PKN model of hydrofracturing: various fluid-flow regimes -- Prediction of grain boundary stress fields and micro crack initiation induced by slip band impingement -- Modeling the heterogeneous effects of retained austenite on the behavior of martensitic high strength steels -- Crack nucleation from a notch in a ductile material under shear dominant loading.

ISBN 9783319043975