Quasicontinuum models of fracture and plasticity

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 427-444

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

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PLASTICITY;

BOUNDARY MIGRATION; QUASICONTINUUM METHOD;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0032172803     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(98)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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