Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Fracture: InstabilityDynamics, Scaling, and Ductile/Brittle Behavior. Volume 409

摘要

This volume contains the papers that were presented at the 1995 MRS Fall Meetingin Symposium Q, entitled 'Fracture: Instability Dynamics, Scaling, and Ductile/Brittle Behavior.' The purpose of the symposium was to bring together the many communities that investigate the fundamentals of fracture, with special sessions on the ductile/brittle transition, fracture at interfaces, fracture in ceramics and composites, dynamic instabilities in crack propagation, and fractals and scaling in fracture. A full-day joint session was held with Symposium P, 'Materials Theory, Simulations, and Parallel Algorithms.' What was most striking about the symposium was the rich variety of methods that investigators use to model fracture. At the most detailed level, ab initio techniques are used, for instance, to estimate the strength of adhesion at an interface as a function of local structure and composition. At the next level, classical molecular dynamics