Damage patterns and constitutive response of random matrix-inclusion composites

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 581-606

  Ostoja Starzewski, M ^a   Sheng, P Y ^b   Jasiuk, I ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Prod Devmt Vehicle Eng C   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CONSTITUTIVE RESPONSE; RANDOM MATRIX INCLUSION COMPOSITES;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CRACK; DAMAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0031278125     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00046-5     Document Type: Article

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