Physical Aspects of Fracture

1. Ductile Fracture

   1. Strain Localization in Single Crystals and Polycrystals

      • C. Rey, T. Hoc, Ph. Erieau

      Pages 225-241

2. Fatigue and Stress Corrosion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Modelling in Fatigue Remarks on Scales of Material Description: Application to High Cycle Fatigue

      • K. Dang Van

      Pages 245-258

   3. The Influence of Microstructure and Moist Environment on Fatigue Crack Propagation in Metallic Alloys

      • J. Petit

      Pages 259-269

   4. Cyclic Strain Localization in Fatigued Metals

      • Hael Mughrabi

      Pages 271-281

   5. Environmental Effects on Fatigue in Metals

      • T. Magnin

      Pages 283-304

   6. Stress Corrosion of Glass

      • R. Gy

      Pages 305-320

3. Dynamics of Fracture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 321-321

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   2. Experimental Challenges in the Investigation of Dynamic Fracture of Brittle Materials

      • K. Ravi-Chandar

      Pages 323-342

   3. Experiments in Dynamic Fracture

      • D. Rittel

      Pages 343-352

   4. Propagation Of An Interfacial Crack Front In A Heterogeneous Medium: Experimental Observations

      • Jean Schmittbuhl, Arnaud Delaplace, Knut Jørgen Måløy

      Pages 353-369

4. Back Matter

   Pages 371-371

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The main scope of this Cargese NATO Advanced Study Institute (June 5-17 2000) was to bring together a number of international experts, covering a large spectrum of the various Physical Aspects of Fracture. As a matter of fact, lecturers as well as participants were coming from various scientific communities: mechanics, physics, materials science, with the common objective of progressing towards a multi-scale description of fracture. This volume includes papers on most materials of practical interest: from concrete to ceramics through metallic alloys, glasses, polymers and composite materials. The classical fields of damage and fracture mechanisms are addressed (critical and sub-critical quasi-static crack propagation, stress corrosion, fatigue, fatigue-corrosion . . . . as well as dynamic fracture). Brittle and ductile fractures are considered and a balance has been carefully kept between experiments, simulations and theoretical models, and between the contributions of the various communities. New topics in damage and fracture mechanics - the effect of disorder and statistical aspects, dynamic fracture, friction and fracture of interfaces - were also explored. This large overview on the Physical Aspects of Fracture shows that the old barriers built between the different scales will soon "fracture". It is no more unrealistic to imagine that a crack initiated through a molecular dynamics description could be propagated at the grain level thanks to dislocation dynamics included in a crystal plasticity model, itself implemented in a finite element code. Linking what happens at the atomic scale to fracture of structures as large as a dam is the new emerging challenge.

• alloy
• ceramics
• crystal
• fatigue
• fracture mechanics
• modeling
• polymer
• spectroscopy

• Service de Physique et Chimie des Surfaces et des Interfaces, Direction des Sciences de la Matière, CEA, Saclay, France

  Elisabeth Bouchaud

• Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS, Ecole des Mines Paris, France

  Dominique Jeulin

• Université Paris 13 and Laboratoire Mécanique des Sols, Structures et Matériaux, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS, Ecole Centrale Paris, France

  Claude Prioul

• Laboratoire Surface du Verre et Interfaces, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS, St-Gobain, France

  Stéphane Roux

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