Brittle fracture: From elasticity theory to atomistic simulations

Reviews in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-83

  Giordano, Stefano ^a   Mattoni, Alessandro ^a   Colombo, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CONTINUUM MODELING; ELASTIC BEHAVIOR; ELASTICITY THEORY;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 77958545461     PISSN: 10693599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470890905.ch1     Document Type: Book

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