Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology

<p>Foreword</p><p>Modeling fracture by material-point erosion<br><br>Crack front perturbations revisited<br><br>Localisation near defects and filtering of flexural waves in structured plates<br><br>Fracture process in cortical bone: X-FEM analysis of microstructured models<br><br>Minimum theorems in 3D incremental linear elastic fracture mechanics<br><br>Crack patterns obtained by unidirectional drying of a colloidal suspension in a capillary tube: experiments and numerical simulations using a two-dimensional variational approach<br><br>Damage mechanisms in the dynamic fracture of nominally brittle polymers<br><br>Tight sedimentary covers for CO sequestration<br><br>Calibration of brittle fracture models by sharp indenters and inverse analysis<br><br>Statistics of ductile fracture surfaces: the effect of material parameters<br><br>Efficient pseudo-spectral solvers for the PKN model of hydrofracturing<br><br>A solution to the parameter-identification conundrum: multi-scale interaction potentials<br><br>Remarks on application of different variables for the PKN model of hydrofracturing: various fluid-flow regimes<br><br>Prediction of grain boundary stress fields and microcrack initiation induced by slip band impingement<br><br>Modeling the heterogeneous effects of retained austenite on the behavior of martensitic high strength steels<br><br>Crack nucleation from a notch in a ductile material under shear dominant loading</p>