Fracture and Complexity : One Century Since Griffith’s Milestone, Paperback b...

by Carpinteri, Alberto

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Fracture and Complexity : One Century Since Griffith’s Milestone, Paperback by Carpinteri, Alberto, ISBN 9402420282, ISBN-13 9789402420289, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Th explores the two opposite natural trends of composite systems: (i) order and structure emerging from heterogeneity and randomness, and (ii) instability and chaos arising from simple nonlinear rules. Providing insights into the rapidly growing field of complexity sciences, th focuses on the role of complexity in fracture mechanics. It firstly discusses the occurrence of self-similarity and fractal patterns in deformation, damage, fracture, and fragmentation of heterogeneous materials and the apparent scaling of the nominal mechanical properties of disordered materials, as well as of the time-to-failure after fatigue and creep loading. Then th addresses criticality in the acoustic emissions from damaged structures and tectonic faults. Further, it examines the snap-back instability in the structural behavior of relatively large composite structures in the framework of catastrophe theory, and lastly describes the transition toward chaos in the dynamics of cracked elements.

• ISBN: 9789402420289
• Condition: Fine

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