Damage Mechanics and Micromechanics of Localized Fracture Phenomena in Inelastic Solids
Invited Lecturers
- Peter I. Kattan (Jabal Ashrafia, Amman , Jordan)
- 6 lectures on: Computational aspects of damage and recent experimental results that were performed on metal matrix composites will be presented. The link between damage mechanics and fabric tensors will be also presented. A new damage variable will be introduced both in scalar and tensorial forms that is directly based on the degradation of the elastic stiffness of the material.
- Piotr Perzyna (Inst. of Fund. Technol. Res., Warszawa, Poland)
- 6 lectures on: Micromechanics of localized fracture in inelastic solids will be presented. The lectures, among others, will focus on description of anisotropy (also induced by plastic deformations) and cyclic loadings. The speed of crack propagation in ductile materials will be discussed. The theoretical results are validated by the comparisons with known experiments.
- Antonio Rinaldi (Università Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy)
- 6 lectures on: Statistical damage mechanics (SDM) will be discussed as a branch of damage mechanics. The preferred tool of SDM consists of detailed discrete models that can incorporate the relevant length scales of a target structure (microstructure, nanostructure) and make profuse usage of statistics to model intrinsic randomness in the properties and in the mechanical response.
- George Z. Voyiadjis (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
- 7 lectures on: Continuum damage mechanics will be presented for metals, metal matrix composites and concrete. This will address both isotropic and anisotropic damage characterization. Plastic-damage model for various applications including high velocity impact will be presented using combined viscosity and gradient localization limiters.