Thermal Effects in Fracture of Multiphase Materials

Some Considerations on the Thermodynamics of Fracture.- Influence of Thermal Effects on Shear Band Localization in Elastic-Plastic Damaged Solids.- Specialization of the Thermodynamic Energy Balance Equations to Fracture Processes in Thermoelastoplastic Materials.- Stress Singularities and Discontinuities on the Free Surface of a Thermoelastoplastic Bimaterial Body.- Stress-Driven Solute Segregation Near Crack Tips: Theoretical Modelling and Applications to the Intergranular Fracture of Heterogeneous Materials.- Continuum Mechanics of Media with Interfaces.- Fracture of Coated Plates and Shells under Thermal Shock.- Debonding of Thin Surface Layers Generated by Thermal and Diffusive Fluxes.- Crack Propagation in Materials with Local Inhomogeneities under Thermal Load.- Crack Extension in Inhomogeneous Materials.- Thermal Cracking in Fibrous Composites Using the Normal Stress Ratio.- The Effect of a Plastic Zone around a Fiber on the Fracture Resistance of a Fiber Reinforced Composite.- Failure Mechanisms and Fracture Toughness of Different Polymer Composite Systems.- Modelling of Toughening and Its Temperature Dependency in Whisker-Reinforced Ceramics.- Theoretical Models for the Explanation of Toughening Mechanisms in Heavy-Duty Ceramics.- Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue of Shape Memory Alloys.- Matrix Cracking of Cross-Ply Laminates under T-Fatigue and Thermal Loading.- Load and Damage Dependent Thermal Effects in CFRP-Laminates.- A Statistical Approach to Thermal Shock Behaviour of Syntactic Foam.- Static and Dynamic Pull-Out of an Elastic Rod from a Rigid Wall.- An External Radial Crack in a Unit Cell of a Fibre-Reinforced Composite.- On the Effective Young's Modulus of Elasticity for Porous Materials Part 1: The General Model Equation.- The Crack Driving Force inDamaged Particle Strengthened Ceramics.- Stress Concentration in Microinhomogeneous Inelastic Materials.