Statistical Meso-Mechanics of Damage and Failure: How Microdamage Induces Disaster

Series Publication of Multiscale Mechanics

verfasst von: Yilong Bai, Mengfen Xia, Fujiu Ke

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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This book introduces a trans-scale framework necessary for the physical understanding of breakdown behaviors and presents some new paradigm to clarify the mechanisms underlying the trans-scale processes. The book, which is based on the interaction of mechanics and statistical physics, will help to deepen the understanding of how microdamage induces disaster and benefit the forecasting of the occurrence of catastrophic rupture. It offers notes and problems in each part as interesting background and illustrative exercises.
Readers of the book would be graduate students, researchers, engineers working on civil, mechanical and geo-engineering, etc. However, people with various background but interested in disaster reduction and forecasting, like applied physics, geophysics, seismology, etc., may also be interested in the book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Abstract

Catastrophic failure of solid media, such as earthquakes, landslides and avalanches, collapse of buildings, crash of aircraft, and failure of machines, cause tremendous economic and societal loss. Early in 1987, in his address at the Opening Ceremony of the Eighth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Frank Press said “I believe there is great need, and much support can be found, to establish an International Decade of Hazard Reduction. This special initiative would see all nations joining forces to reduce the consequences of natural hazards.” Afterward, at its 42nd session, the UN General Assembly designated the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).

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Chapter 2. Quasi-static Evolution of Deformation and Damage in Meso-heterogeneous Media

Abstract

Roughly speaking, mechanics seems to be a mature discipline, however, so far the conventional mechanics still can not give answers to a number of practical problems, such as

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Chapter 3. Time-Dependent Population of Microdamage

Abstract

Broadly speaking, all macroscopically time-dependent processes may result from the evolution of various microstructures as shown in the figures at the very beginning of this chapter.

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Chapter 4. Critical Catastrophe in Disordered Heterogeneous Brittle Media

Abstract

In numerous cases, the failure of disordered heterogeneous brittle media under external loading emerges as an abrupt, unstable transition of evolution mode from the globally stable accumulation of microdamages to catastrophic rupture. The microdamages are initiated at the atomic scale, then they display inverse cascade from smaller scales to larger scales presenting a coupling process across multiple scales.

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Backmatter

Titel: Statistical Meso-Mechanics of Damage and Failure: How Microdamage Induces Disaster
verfasst von: Yilong Bai
Mengfen Xia
Fujiu Ke
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Electronic ISBN: 978-981-329-192-8
Print ISBN: 978-981-329-191-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9192-8

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