Quasicontinuum simulation of fracture at the atomic scale

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 607-638

  Miller, R ^a   Tadmor, E B ^a   Phillips, R ^b   Ortiz, M ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRACKS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DISLOCATION EMISSION; GRAIN BOUNDARY CRACK INTERACTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0032154002     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/6/5/008     Document Type: Article

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