Virtual testing and predictive modeling: for fatigue and fracture mechanics allowables

Bahram Farahmand (auth.), Bahram Farahmand (eds.)9780387959238, 0387959238

Virtual Testing and Predictive Modeling: For Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Allowables provides an overview of cost and time efficient methods in generating the fatigue and fracture data of industrial structural parts.

Readers will find a systematic introduction to virtual testing to generate fatigue and fracture allowables through two useful techniques: the conventional continuum mechanics approach, and the utilization of multiscale modeling and simulation techniques to predict materials’ properties. In addition, a chapter devoted to the functionalization process covers the current approach to this technique, which strengthens interface durability through bonding dissimilar materials. Coverage of verification methods, used with devices such as the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), are also described, which motivate discussion of the fundamental structure and deformation processes of nanoscale materials.

The virtual testing continuum approach already plays a crucial role in the life assessment of important manufactured structural parts in the aerospace, automotive, aircraft and defense industries when data is inaccessible to engineers. Virtual Testing and Predictive Modeling: For Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Allowables provides a unique applications-focus view into these valuable methods, filling a critical void in references currently available.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xxiii
Virtual Testing and Its Application in Aerospace Structural Parts….Pages 1-28
Tools for Assessing the Damage Tolerance of Primary Structural Components….Pages 29-45
Cohesive Technology Applied to the Modeling and Simulation of Fatigue Failure….Pages 47-71
Fatigue Damage Map as a Virtual Tool for Fatigue Damage Tolerance….Pages 73-104
Predicting Creep and Creep/Fatigue Crack Initiation and Growth for Virtual Testing and Life Assessment of Components….Pages 105-136
Computational Approach Toward Advanced Composite Material Qualification and Structural Certification….Pages 137-185
Modeling of Multiscale Fatigue Crack Growth: Nano/Micro and Micro/Macro Transitions….Pages 187-219
Multiscale Modeling of Nanocomposite Materials….Pages 221-245
Predictive Modeling….Pages 247-289
Multiscale Approach to Predicting the Mechanical Behavior of Polymeric Melts….Pages 291-319
Prediction of Damage Propagation and Failure of Composite Structures (Without Testing)….Pages 321-356
Functional Nanostructured Polymer–Metal Interfaces….Pages 357-369
Advanced Experimental Techniques for Multiscale Modeling of Materials….Pages 371-398
Back Matter….Pages 399-407