Handbook of Damage Mechanics

George Z. Voyiadjis is the Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

• Continuum Damage Mechanics Fundamentals: Some Basic Issues of Isotropic and Anisotropic Continuum Damage Mechanics.- Undamageable Materials and Damage Processes in Series and in Parallel.- Use of Fabric Tensors in Continuum Damage Mechanics of Solids with Micro-cracks.- Evolution of Fabric Tensors in Continuum Damage Mechanics of Solids with Micro-cracks: Studying the Effects of Length and Orientation.- Damage for Disordered Materials: Failure Mechanics of Geomaterials.- Fractals and Mechanics of Fracture.- Lattice and Particle Modeling of Damage Phenomena.- Toughening and Instability Phenomena in Quantized Fracture Process: Euclidean and Fractal Cracks.- Two-Dimensional Discrete Damage Models: Discrete Element Methods, Particle Models, and Fractal Theories.- Two-Dimensional Discrete Damage Models: Lattice and Rational Models.- Damage in Crystalline Metals and Alloys: Ductile Damage Behavior in Low-Cycle Fatigue for Polycrystalline Metallic Materials.- From Single Crystal to Polycrystal Plasticity: Overview of Main Approaches.- Micromechanics for Heterogeneous Material Property Estimation.- Microstructural Behavior and Fracture in Crystalline Materials: Overview.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Plastic Damage in Metals.- Numerical Applications in Damage-Induced Anisotropy in Low-Cycle Fatigue Modeling for Metals.- Damage in Structures: Damage in Prestressed Concrete Structures due to Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete.- Damage to Ship Structures Under Uncertainty: Evaluation and Prediction.- Elasto-dynamic Damage Evaluation of Bridges.- Materials Mechanical Characterizations and Structural Diagnoses by Inverse Analyses.- Damage Mechanics in Electronic Packaging: Adhesion and Failure of Polymer-Metal Interfaces in Microelectronic Packaging.- Damage Mechanics Unified Constitutive Modeling for Polymers.- Thermodynamics Theory for Damage Evolution in Solids.- Damage Mechanics in Metal Forming: Damage Prediction in Metal-Forming Process Modeling and Optimization: Simplified Approaches.- Ductile Damage in Metal Forming: Advanced Macroscopic Modeling and Numerical Simulation.- Ductile Failure Modeling: Stress Dependence, Non-locality and Damage to Fracture Transition.- Micromechanical Models of Ductile Damage and Fracture.- Micromechanical Polycrystalline Damage-Plasticity Modeling for Metal-Forming Processes.- Damage Micromechanics of Composite Materials, and Coupled Elastoplastic Damage-Healing Mechanics of Granular Materials: Fiber Cracking and Elastoplastic Damage Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites.- Micromechanical Elastoplastic Damage Modeling of Evolutionary Interfacial Arc Debonding for Fiber-Reinforced Composites.- New Strain-Energy-Based Coupled Elastoplastic Damage-Healing Mechanics Accounting for Matric Suction Effect for Geomaterials.- New Strain-Energy-Based Coupled Elastoplastic Two-Parameter Damage and Healing Models for Geomaterials.- Particle-Cracking Modeling of Metal-Matrix Composites.- Particle-Debonding Modeling of Metal-Matrix Composites.- Damage Under Dynamic Loading: Anisotropic Damage for Extreme Dynamics.- Plasticity Conditions and Failure Criteria for Quasi-brittle Materials.- Experimental Damage Characterization: Evaluating Damage with Digital Image Correlation: A. Introductory Remarks and Detection of Physical Damage.- Evaluating Damage with Digital Image Correlation: B. From Physical to Mechanical Damage.- Evaluating Damage with Digital Image Correlation: C. Applications to Composite Materials.- Micromechanics of Damage for Laminated Composites: Experimental Methods to Quantify Microdamage and Microstructure Anomalies in Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Overview.- Modeling Deformation and Damage of Random Fiber Network (RFN) Materials.- Predicting Damage Evolution in Composites with Explicit Representation of Discrete Damage Modes.- Nuclear Damage Characterization: Irradiation Damage in Nuclear Power Plants.- Recent Trends in Damage and Healing Mechanics: Healing, Super Healing, and Other Issues in Continuum Damage Mechanics.- Thermodynamics of Continuum Damage Healing Mechanics.- Continuum Damage-Healing Mechanics.- Modeling of Nonlocal Damage Using the Phase Field Method.