IUTAM Symposium on Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology

• Main Authors: Bigoni, Davide, Carini, Angelo, Gei, Massimiliano, Salvadori, Alberto
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Engineering; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04397-5; http://cds.cern.ch/record/1702413

This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.The objective of the Symposium was fracture research, interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics treatments of damage development and crack growth, and also large-scale failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or landslide failures, ice shelf break-up, and hydraulic fracturing (natural, or for resource extraction or CO2 sequestration), as well as small-scale rupture phenomena in materials physics including, e.g., inception of shear banding, void growth, adhesion and decohesion in contact and friction, crystal dislocation processes, and atomic/electronic scale treatment of brittle crack tips and fundamental cohesive properties.Special emphasis was given to multiscale fracture description and new scale-bridging formulations capable to substantiate recent experiments and tailored to become the basis for innovative computational algorithms.