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Scalar Damage and Healing Mechanics

  • 1st Edition - October 3, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: George Z. Voyiadjis, Peter I. Kattan
  • Language: English

Scalar Damage and Healing Mechanics outlines the latest cutting-edge research in the field of scalar damage and healing mechanics, providing step-by-step insight on how to use sc… Read more

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Description

Scalar Damage and Healing Mechanics outlines the latest cutting-edge research in the field of scalar damage and healing mechanics, providing step-by-step insight on how to use scalar damage variables in various modeling scenarios. Additionally, the book discusses the latest advances in healing mechanics, covering the evolution of healing and damage, small damage and small healing, healing processes in series and in parallel, super healing, and the thermodynamics of damage and healing. Coupled systems, in which damage triggers self-healing as well as a decoupled system where healing occurs after damage is identified by external detection, are also discussed.

Readers are additionally introduced to fundamental concepts such as effective stress, damage evolution, plane stress damage decomposition, and other damage processes that form the basis for a better understanding of the more advanced chapters.

Key features

  • Synthesizes the latest research in damage mechanics and the healing mechanics of materials, including thermodynamics, elasticity and plasticity
  • Includes practical exercises and problems for readers to work with before performing their own modeling scenarios
  • Covers various scalar damage variables and outlines different damage processes

Readership

Researchers and students in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aerospace engineering, materials science, and engineering mechanics; Professional engineers looking to refine their modeling approaches

Table of contents

1. Effective Stress

2. Damage Evolution

3. Decomposition of the Damage Variable

4. Other Decomposition Issues

5. Other Damage Variables

6. Damage in Composite Materials - Overall Approach

7. Damage in Composite Materials - Local Approach

8. Complex Damage Variables

9. Damage Described in Terms of Stiffness Degradation

10. Damage Described in Terms of Area Reduction

11. Damage and Healing Mechanics

12. Evolution of Damage and Healing

13. Small Damage and Small Healing

14. Healing Processes in Series and in Parallel

15. Thermodynamics of Damage and Healing

16. Undamageable Materials 1

17. Undamageable Materials 2

18. Super Healing

19. Singularity Formation

20. Stages of the Damage Process

21. Independent and Dependent Damage Processes

22. Special Damage Processes Described Mathematically

23. Damage in Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Lithium Ion Batteries

24. Logarithmic and Exponential Damage

25. Integrity and Damageability

26. Unhealable Damage and Undamageable Integrity

27. Nonlinear Healing

28. Stages of the Healing Process

29. Integrity Field

30. Healing Field

31. Small Damage in Composite Materials

32. Composition of Damage Variables

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 10, 2022
  • Language: English

About the authors

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George Z. Voyiadjis

Boyd Professor at the Louisiana State University, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Voyiadjis is a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a Foreign Member of both the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He is the recipient of the 2008 Nathan M. Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers He is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Engineering Science, the American Academy of Mechanics, and the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE; and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Voyiadjis’ primary research interest is in plasticity and damage mechanics of metals, metal matrix composites, polymers, and ceramics with emphasis on the theoretical modeling, numerical simulation of material behavior, and experimental correlation. Research activities of particular interest encompass macro-mechanical and micro-mechanical constitutive modeling, experimental procedures for quantification of crack densities, inelastic behavior, thermal effects, interfaces, damage, failure, fracture, impact, and numerical modeling. He has 2 patents, over 364 refereed journal articles, and 23 books (12 as editor) to his credit. He has given over 420 presentations as plenary, keynote, and invited speaker as well as other talks. Over 68 graduate students (39 Ph.D.) completed their degrees under his direction.
Affiliations and expertise
Boyd Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, USA

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Peter I. Kattan

Peter I. Kattan is an Independent Researcher based in Amman, Jordan and has written three books on damage mechanics, one book on finite elements, and one book on composite materials. His research work is currently focused on damage mechanics with fabric tensors and the physical characterization of micro-crack distributions and their evolution. He has published extensively on the theory of plates and shells, constitutive modelling of inelastic materials and damage mechanics. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Researcher; Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

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