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This book tackles the theoretical and experimental aspects of material fracture, proposing concepts, tools and methods to solve problems of physical flaws and the multiaxial elemental strength concept

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : Flaws in materialsChapter 2 : Statistical-probabilistic approaches to brittle fracture: the Weibull model Chapter 3: Statistical – probabilistic theories based on flaw size densityChapter 4: Statistical – probabilistic theories based on flaw strength densityChapter 5 : Effective volume or surface areaChapter 6: Size and stress-state effects on fracture strengthChapter 7 : Determination of statistical parametersChapter 8 : Computation of failure probability: Application to component designChapter 9 : Case studies: Comparison of failure predictions using the Weibull and Multiaxial Elemental Strength Models Chapter 10: Application of statistical-probabilistic approaches to damage and fracture of composite materials and structures

About the Author

Jacques Lamon received an award from the Seymour Cray company in 1990 for his work on failure statistics based predictions of brittle failure. In 2006, he was elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. In 2007 he received the First Prize of Best Paper Awards from the American Ceramic Society. He has authored one book on the Mechanics of brittle fracture and damage, authored more than 300 technical articles on ceramics reliability, and the thermomechanical behaviour of fibre-reinforced ceramic matrix composites and contributed to/ edited 13 books; 14 conference proceedings, 3 journal special issues and more than 15 testing method standards (CEN) and presented more than 70 invited lectures. HIs current research interests include Thermomechanical behavior of composite materials, modelling of damage, fracture and durability, effects of the environment, multiscale approaches to behavior, fracture and durability and the probabilistic approaches to fracture and damage.