TY - BOOK AU - Lemaitre,Jean AU - Desmorat,Rodrigue ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Engineering Damage Mechanics: Ductile, Creep, Fatigue and Brittle Failures SN - 9783540272939 AV - TA405-409.3 U1 - 620.1 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Engineering KW - Mechanics KW - Materials KW - Mechanical engineering KW - Civil engineering KW - Surfaces (Physics) KW - Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials KW - Characterization and Evaluation of Materials KW - Structural Mechanics KW - Civil Engineering N1 - Background on Continuum Damage Mechanics -- Numerical Analysis of Damage -- Ductile Failures -- Low Cycle Fatigue -- Creep, Creep-Fatigue, and Dynamic Failures -- High Cycle Fatigue -- Failure of Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Materials N2 - Engineering Damage Mechanics is deliberately oriented toward applications of Continuum Damage Mechanics to failures of mechanical and civil engineering components in ductile, creep, fatigue and brittle conditions depending upon the thermomechanical loading and the materials: metals and alloys, polymers, elastomers, composites, concretes. Nevertheless, to help engineers, researchers, beginners or not, the first two chapters are devoted to the main concepts of damage mechanics and to the associated computational tools UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138882 ER -