Abstract
A piece of material or a structure can have demands of various sorts made on it — mechanical, chemical (corrosion), thermal (fatigue, creep, creep-fatigue) — which can lead to failure. The main ways in which this can occur are:
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elastic instability, or buckling,
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plastic instability, or excessive deformation: an example is progressive deformation, the ratchet effect (Chapter 1, § 1.4.4.4),
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damage and cracking.
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François, D., Pineau, A., Zaoui, A. (1998). Fracture Mechanics. In: Mechanical Behaviour of Materials. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0498-4_3
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