Mechanics of Steadily Propagating Cracks

This monograph deals with crack motion in solids under load with no acceleration term in the equations of motion. This is qualified as steadily propagating cracks. A useful quantity is G, the crack extension force per unit length of the crack front. Physical quantities associated with the crack, measured under the conditions < G > (G, averaged over the length of the crack front) positive maxima, conform to predictions. This monograph tells how the evolution of fracture in loaded solids is described.

CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR CRACK PROPAGATION IN LOADED MATERIALS.- CHAPTER II. SPECIAL STEADILY PROPAGATING CRACKS.- CHAPTER III. BRITTLE CRACKS UNDER COMPRESSION AND BENDING.- CHAPTER IV. CRACKS IN HALF- SPACE WITH GRAVITATIONAL FORCE.- CHAPTER V. CRACKS AT THE INTERFACE OF BI-MATERIALS.

Patrick N.B. ANONGBA is born the year 1960 in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). He holds a permanent Research/Professor position since 1995 at University F.H.B. (Cocody). He authored about fifty research articles in plasticity and fracture of cubic materials. He developed an expertise in Transmission Electron Microscopy.

EDUCATION: Engineer in physics (EPFL, 1984) and Dr. ès Sciences (EPFL, 1989)

EXPERIENCE (Postdoctoral): UNIL in Lausanne (1990 – 1992); MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT in Stuttgart (1993 – 1994); JSPS fellow, University of Nagoya (1996-1997); FULBRIGHT fellow, UPENN in Philadelphia (2000-2001); Invited Professor, Polytechnic University of Cataluña in Barcelona (2002-2003) and University of Poitiers at Institut P’ - Département PMM in FUTUROSCOPE CHASSENEUIL (2011).