4/22/2002, Monday

Homework Comments:Scientists and Their Works

Zdenek P. Bazant

Brittle fractureConcrete

Civil EngineeringNorthwestern University

Crack Band

Size Effect in Blunt Fracture:Concrete, Rock, Metal

Mesoscale Simulations

T. Vergaard (Denmark)Alan Needleman (Brown University)

C. Fong Shih (Singapore)

Ductile Fracture Simulations

Microscopic void nucleation, growth, and coalescence

Voids Around Large Inclusions

J.R. Rice

PhD Leigh UniversityAdvisor: G.C. Sih

Interfacial Fracture

Crack Propagation Direction

Energy density criterion

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K II =0

J.W. Hutchinson (Harvard)Z. Suo (Princeton)

Interface, Layered Materials

Fracture under Constraint

Driving forces are the internal strain mismatch

Fracture at small scale is a concern in many advanced technologies

MicroelectronicMagnetic storagePhotonic devices

Compressive Stress in Thin Film

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ΔU =ΔU s+ΔUE

Physical Vapor Deposition

Atomic Diffusion

Fracture in Disordered Media

Heterogeneities

Crack propagating among a forest of obstables

Dynamic Fracture

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Fracto-emission

Compressive Fracture