作者在留学美国布朗大学期间,在导师的指导下,从1997年开始从事应力腐蚀开裂领域的研究工作(主要是数值计算工作),其间获美国国家计量局陶瓷研究所的资助。2002年完成博士论文后,作者在加州Irvine分校从事相关的博士后研究。在此期间,作者用自己开发的软件模拟了在应力和腐蚀耦合作用下脆性材料表面微裂缝的扩展过程,同时也研究了初始裂缝在两种脆性材料(复合材料)界面时的情形。
本书整理汇集了作者这些年的研究成果。因为已发表的大部分文章是用英文写就的,故作者最终选择了英文作为本书书写的语种。
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Stress corrosion problem in history
1.2 Charles and Hillig's model
1.3 Brief description of work reported in this book
Chapter 2 NUMERICAL APPROACH
2.1 Model description
2.2 Numerical procedure
2.3 Convergence studies
2.3.1 Effect of finite boundaries and mesh sizes
2.3.2 Effect of time step size
2.3.3 Effect of criteria for automatic time step size adjustment
Chapter 3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION WITH HOMOGENEOUS ASSUMPTION
3.1 Dimensionless analysis
3.2 Results and discussion
3.2.1 Introduction
3.2.2 Stress corrosion studies for typical material
3.2.3 Stress driven corrosion problem in general
3.2.4 Further studies of steady state crack growth
3.3 Conclusions
Chapter 4 CRACK PROPAGATION ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN TWO BRITTLE SOLIDS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Description of model and numerical procedure
4.3 Results and discussion
4.3.1 Dimensionless parametric analysis
4.3.2 Description of five possible types of behavior
4.3.3 Systematic parametric studies
4.3.4 The velocity of crack propagation on interface
4.4 Conclusions
Chapter 5 SUMMARIZATION
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