Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake
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Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake

Effects of Disorder and Heterogeneity

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eBook - ePub

Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake

Effects of Disorder and Heterogeneity

About this book

In this book, the authors bring together basic ideas from fracture mechanics and statistical physics, classical theories, simulation and experimental results to make the statistical physics aspects of fracture more accessible.
They explain fracture-like phenomena, highlighting the role of disorder and heterogeneity from a statistical physical viewpoint. The role of defects is discussed in brittle and ductile fracture, ductile to brittle transition, fracture dynamics, failure processes with tension as well as compression: experiments, failure of electrical networks, self-organized critical models of earthquake and their extensions to capture the physics of earthquake dynamics. The text also includes a discussion of dynamical transitions in fracture propagation in theory and experiments, as well as an outline of analytical results in fiber bundle model dynamics
With its wide scope, in addition to the statistical physics community, the material here is equally accessible to engineers, earth scientists, mechanical engineers, and material scientists. It also serves as a textbook for graduate students and researchers in physics.

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Yes, you can access Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake by Soumyajyoti Biswas,Purusattam Ray,Bikas K. Chakrabarti in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Condensed Matter. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley-VCH
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9783527412198
eBook ISBN
9783527672653

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Book Series: Statistical Physics of Fracture and Breakdown
  5. Preface
  6. Notations
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Mechanical and Fracture Properties of Solids
  9. 3 Crystal Defects and Disorder in Lattice Models
  10. 4 Nucleation and Extreme Statistics in Brittle Fracture
  11. 5 Roughness of Fracture Surfaces
  12. 6 Avalanche Dynamics in Fracture
  13. 7 Subcritical Failure of Heterogeneous Materials
  14. 8 Dynamics of Fracture Front
  15. 9 Dislocation Dynamics and Ductile Fracture
  16. 10 Electrical Breakdown Analogy of Fracture
  17. 11 Earthquake as Failure Dynamics
  18. 12 Overview and Outlook
  19. A Percolation
  20. B Real-space RG for Rigidity Percolation
  21. C Fiber Bundle Model
  22. D Quantum Breakdown
  23. E Fractals
  24. F Two-fractal Overlap Model
  25. G Microscopic Theories of Friction
  26. References
  27. Index
  28. End User License Agreement