Elsevier Scalar Damage and Healing Mechanics

Scalar Damage and Healing Mechanics outlines the latest cutting-edge research in the field of scalar damage and healing mechanics, providing step-by-step insights on how to use scalar damage variables in various modeling scenarios. Additionally, the book covers the latest advances in the field of healing mechanics, covering the evolution of healing and damage, small damage and small healing, healing processes in series and in parallel, super healing, and the thermodynamics of damage and healing. Coupled systems, in which damaging triggers self-healing as well as a decoupled system where healing occurs after damage is identified by external detection, are also discussed. Readers are also introduced to fundamental concepts such as effective stress, damage evolution, plane stress damage decomposition and other various damage processes that form the basis for a better understanding of the more advanced chapters that follow. Review Outlines the latest cutting-edge research in field scalar damage and healing mechanics, providing step-by-step insights From the Back Cover <i>Scalar Damage and Healing Mechanics</i> outlines the latest cutting-edge research in field scalar damage and healing mechanics, providing step-by-step insight on how to use scalar damage variables in various modeling scenarios in a simple and easy-to-implement fashion. It additionally covers the latest advances in the field of healing mechanics, covering the evolution of healing and damage, small damage and small healing, healing processes in series and in parallel, super healing, and the thermodynamics of damage and healing. Coupled systems, in which damaging triggers self-healing as well as a decoupled system where healing occurs after damage is identified by external detection are each discussed as well. Readers are also introduced to fundamental concepts such as effective stress, damage evolution, plane stress damage decomposition, and other various damage processes that form the basis for better understanding the more advanced chapters that follow. About the Author Boyd Professor at the Louisiana State University, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was the recipient of the 2008 Nathan M. Newark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is currently a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanic, Society of Engineering Science and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currently the Chair of the Executive Board of the Materials Division of ASME, and also on the editorial board of numerous engineering journals. Dr. Voyiadjis is an expert in multiscale modelling of size effects in materials with different methods of atomistic simulation and continuum enhanced models including gradient plasticity and gradient damage. He has also conducted research in damage mechanics, numerical simulation of material behaviour, inelastic behaviour, thermal effects, and much more. He has over 280 refereed journal articles and 18 books (11 as editor) to his credit, and over 50 graduate students (31 Ph.Ds.) have completed their degrees under his direction. Peter I. Kattan is an Independent Researcher based in Amman, Jordan and has written three books on damage mechanics, one book on finite elements, and one book on composite materials. His research work is currently focused on damage mechanics with fabric tensors and the physical characterization of micro-crack distributions and their evolution. He has published extensively on the theory of plates and shells, constitutive modelling of inelastic materials and damage mechanics. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.