This book provides in a single and unified volume a clear and thorough presentation of the recent advances in continuum damage mechanics for metals and metal matrix composites. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical formulation of the different constitutive models in this area, but sections are added to demonstrate the applications of the theory. In addition, some sections contain new material that has not appeared before in the literature.
The book is divided into three major parts: Part I deals with the scalar formulation and is limited to the analysis of isotropic damage in materials; Parts II and III deal with the tensor formulation and is applied to general states of deformation and damage.
The material appearing in this text is limited to plastic deformation and damage in ductile materials (e.g. metals and metal matrix composites) but excludes many of the recent advances made in creep, brittle fracture, and temperature effects since the authors feel that these topics require a separate volume for this presentation. Furthermore, the applications presented in this book are the simplest possible ones and are mainly based on the uniaxial tension test.
This book provides in a single and unified volume a clear and thorough presentation of the recent advances in continuum damage mechanics for metals and metal matrix composites. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical formulation of the different constitutive models in this area, but sections are added to demonstrate the applications of the theory. In addition, some sections contain new material that has not appeared before in the literature.
The book is divided into three major parts: Part I deals with the scalar formulation and is limited to the analysis of isotropic damage in materials; Parts II and III deal with the tensor formulation and is applied to general states of deformation and damage.
The material appearing in this text is limited to plastic deformation and damage in ductile materials (e.g. metals and metal matrix composites) but excludes many of the recent advances made in creep, brittle fracture, and temperature effects since the authors feel that these topics require a separate volume for this presentation. Furthermore, the applications presented in this book are the simplest possible ones and are mainly based on the uniaxial tension test.
Part and chapter headings: Introduction. Part I: Isotropic Damage Mechanics - Scalar Formulation. Uniaxial Tension in Metals. Uniaxial Tension in Elastic Metal Matrix Composites. Uniaxial Tension in Elasto-Plastic Metal Matrix Composites: Vector Formulation of the Overall Approach. Part II: Anisotropic Damage Mechanics - Tensor Formulation. Damage and Elasticity in Metals. Damage and Plasticity in Metals. Metal Matrix Composites - Overall Approach. Metal Matrix Composites - Local Approach. Equivalence of the Overall and Local Approaches. Metal Matrix Composites - Local and Interfacial Damage. Symmetrization of the Effective Stress Tensor. Experimental Damage Investigation. High Cyclic Fatigue Damage for Uni-Directional Metal Matrix Composites. Anisotropic Cyclic Damage-Plasticity Models for Metal Matrix Composites. Part III: Advanced Topics in Damage Mechanics. Damage in Metal Matrix Composites Using the Generalized Cells Method. The Kinematics of Damage for Finite-Strain Elasto-Plastic Solids. A Coupled Anisotropic Damage Model for the Inelastic Response of Composite Materials. References. Appendices: Listing of Damage Formulas. Subject index.
Dr. Voyiadjis is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences, and
Foreign Member of both the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the
National Academy of Engineering of Korea. George Z. Voyiadjis is
the Boyd Professor at the Louisiana State University, in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This is the
highest professorial rank awarded by the Louisiana State University
System. He is also the holder of the Freeport-MacMoRan Endowed
Chair in Engineering. He joined the faculty of Louisiana State
University in 1980. He is currently the Chair of the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering. He holds this position since
February of 2001. He also served from 1992 to 1994 as the Acting
Associate Dean of the Graduate School. He currently also serves
since 2012 as the Director of the Louisiana State University Center
for GeoInformatics (LSU C4G; http://c4gnet.lsu.edu/c4g/ ).
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.
Dr. Voyiadjis’ research has been performed on developing numerical
models that aim at simulating the damage and dynamic failure
response of advanced engineering materials and structures under
high-speed impact loading conditions. This work will guide the
development of design criteria and fabrication processes of high
performance materials and structures under severe loading
conditions. Emphasis is placed on survivability area that aims to
develop and field a contingency armor that is thin and lightweight,
but with a very high level of an overpressure protection system
that provides low penetration depths. The formation of cracks and
voids in the adiabatic shear bands, which are the precursors to
fracture, are mainly investigated.
He has two patents, over 332 refereed journal articles and 19 books
(11 as editor) to his credit. He gave over 400 presentations as
plenary, keynote and invited speaker as well as other talks. Over
sixty two graduate students (37 Ph. D.) completed their degrees
under his direction. He has also supervised numerous postdoctoral
associates. Voyiadjis has been extremely successful in securing
more than $30.0 million in research funds as a principal
investigator/investigator from the National Science Foundation, the
Department of Defense, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
the Department of Transportation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), and major companies such as IBM and Martin
Marietta.
Ask a Question About this Product More... |