In this book, the authors bring together basic ideas from fracture mechanics and statistical physics, classical theories, simulation and experimental results to make the statistical physics aspects of fracture more accessible.
They explain fracture-like phenomena, highlighting the role of disorder and heterogeneity from a statistical physical viewpoint. The role of defects is discussed in brittle and ductile fracture, ductile to brittle transition, fracture dynamics, failure processes with tension as well as compression: experiments, failure of electrical networks, self-organized critical models of earthquake and their extensions to capture the physics of earthquake dynamics. The text also includes a discussion of dynamical transitions in fracture propagation in theory and experiments, as well as an outline of analytical results in fiber bundle model dynamics
With its wide scope, in addition to the statistical physics community, the material here is equally accessible to engineers, earth scientists, mechanical engineers, and material scientists. It also serves as a textbook for graduate students and researchers in physics.

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Information

Publisher

Wiley-VCH

Year

2015

ISBN

9783527672653

Edition

Topic

Physical Sciences

Subtopic

Condensed Matter

Cover
Title page
Table of Contents
Book Series: Statistical Physics of Fracture and Breakdown
Preface
Notations
1 Introduction
2 Mechanical and Fracture Properties of Solids
3 Crystal Defects and Disorder in Lattice Models
4 Nucleation and Extreme Statistics in Brittle Fracture
5 Roughness of Fracture Surfaces
6 Avalanche Dynamics in Fracture
7 Subcritical Failure of Heterogeneous Materials
8 Dynamics of Fracture Front
9 Dislocation Dynamics and Ductile Fracture
10 Electrical Breakdown Analogy of Fracture
11 Earthquake as Failure Dynamics
12 Overview and Outlook
A Percolation
B Real-space RG for Rigidity Percolation
C Fiber Bundle Model
D Quantum Breakdown
E Fractals
F Two-fractal Overlap Model
G Microscopic Theories of Friction
References
Index
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