TY - BOOK T1 - Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July 2012 A2 - Bigoni, Davide A2 - Carini, Angelo A2 - Gei, Massimiliano A2 - Salvadori, Alberto LA - English PP - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer YR - 2014 UL - http://vufind10-pruebas.sigbunlp.bibliotecas.unlp.edu.ar/Record/dfi.27825 AB - This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.The objective of the Symposium was fracture research, interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics treatments of damage development and crack growth, and also large-scale failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or landslide failures, ice shelf break-up, and hydraulic fracturing (natural, or for resource extraction or CO2 sequestration), as well as small-scale rupture phenomena in materials physics including, e.g., inception of shear banding, void growth, adhesion and decohesion in contact and friction, crystal dislocation processes, and atomic/electronic scale treatment of brittle crack tips and fundamental cohesive properties.Special emphasis was given to multiscale fracture description and new scale-bridging formulations capable to substantiate recent experiments and tailored to become the basis for innovative computational algorithms. OP - 266 CN - TA349-359 SN - 9783319043975 KW - Engineering. KW - Geotechnical engineering. KW - Mathematical models. KW - Mechanics. KW - Structural materials. KW - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. KW - Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics. KW - Applied Earth Sciences. ER -