Fracture Mechanics Research

Current topics of interest

  • Opening mode cracks
  • Viscoelastic fracture
  • Bimaterial interfaces
  • Cohesive zones
  • Analysis of fracture boundary value problems
  • Analogs of a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map to relate unknown boundary quantities to known boundary data
  • Numerical simulations of simple fracture events

Publications

A general solution method for an anti-plane shear crack dynamically accelerating along a bimaterial interface, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 53 (2005), 639-653.

An analytical and numerical study of a dynamically accelerating semi-infinite crack in a viscoelastic material (with Jay R. Walton), Int. J. Fracture, 127:2 (2004), 101-117.

A method for solving dynamically accelerating crack problems in linear viscoelasticity (with Jay R. Walton), SIAM J. Applied Math 64:1 (2003), 94-107.

Dynamically accelerating cracks part 2:  a finite length mode III crack in elastic material (with Jay R. Walton), Quart. Appl. Math., 59:4 (December 2001), 601-614. 

A general method for solving dynamically accelerating multiple co-linear cracks (with Jay R. Walton), Int. J. Fracture, 111:1 (Sept 2001), 1-16.

 

See also the website of my collaborator Jay R. Walton, Mathematics, Texas A&M University.

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