Damage Mechanics Approaches for Sharp and Diffuse Fracture Propagation: Application to Ice Sheet Fracture and Composite Delamination

Damage mechanics approaches are developed for the numerical modeling of fracture evolution along sharp (i.e., zero-thickness) and diffuse (i.e., finite-thickness) interfaces and applied to investigate ice sheet fracture and fatigue delamination of composites. Throughout this work, three computationa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jimenez, Stephen Keith
Other Authors: Ravindra Duddu
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2017
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12032017-115622/