Fracture and Complexity: One Century since Griffith’s Milestone (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 237, Band 237) - Hardcover

Carpinteri, Alberto

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ISBN 10: 940242024X ISBN 13: 9789402420241

Verlag: Springer, 2021

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The book 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, the book 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 the book 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.

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Professor Alberto Carpinteri received his Doctoral Degrees in Nuclear Engineering cum Laude (1976) and in Mathematics cum Laude (1981) from the University of Bologna in Italy. After two years at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche working in the Nuclear Power Plant Programme, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna in 1980. He moved to Politecnico di Torino in 1986 as Full Professor and became Chair Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, as well as the Director of the Fracture Mechanics Laboratory. During that period, he held different positions of responsibility, among which are Head of the Department of Structural Engineering and Founding Director of the Doctoral School in Structural Engineering . Prof. Carpinteri was Visiting Scientist at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA (1982-1983). He was appointed as Fellow of several academies and professional institutions, and Head of the Engineering Division in the European Academy of Sciences in Brussels. He was the President of the major International Scientific Societies on Fracture Mechanics (ICF, ESIS, IA-FraMCoS) and was the winner of relevant awards, among which the Giuliano Preparata Medal from the International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (2022). Presently, Prof. Carpinteri is Chang Jiang Chair Professor at Shantou University, Guest Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, and Honorary Professor at Tianjin University and Shenyang Northeastern University in China.

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The book 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, the book 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 the book 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.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 940242024X
• ISBN 13: 9789402420241
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 980
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