Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-312) and indexes.
Note
Print version record.
Contents
Front cover; copyright; table of contents; front matter; Foreword; Author's Preface; About the Author; body; 1 Introduction; 2 Asymptotic Analysis of Size Effect; 3 Randomness and Disorder; 4 Energetic Scaling for Sea Ice and Concrete Structures; 5 Energetic Scaling of Compression Fracture and Further Applications to Concrete, Rock and Composites; 6 Scaling via J-integral, With Application to Kink Bands in Fiber Composites; 7 Time Dependance, Repeated Loads and Energy Absorption Capacity; 8 Computational Approaches to Quasibrittle Fracture and Its Scaling.
Summary
The pioneering work on the once controversial topic of energetic scaling, which is now gaining wide acceptance.
