Fracture Scaling

1. Micromechanical Analysis.- Models of interface separation accompanied by plastic dissipation at multiple scales.- The effects of heterogeneity and anisotropy on the size effect in cracked polycrystalline films.- Size effect relations associated with cohesive zone type fracture at a blunt stress concentration.- Scaling laws for elastoplastic fracture.- 2. Size Effects in Fiber Composites.- Scale effects in the initiation of cracking of a scarf joints.- Size effect in fracture of unidirectional composite plates.- Size effect on compression strength of fiber composites failing by kink band propagation.- Is there a thickness effect on compressive strength of unnotched composite laminates?.- 3. Scaling and Heterogeneity.- Failure and scaling properties of a softening interface connected to an elastic block.- A Model for predicting grain boundary cracking in polycrystalline viscoplastic materials including scale effects.- Effect of strain gradients on the size effect of concrete in uniaxial tension.- Scaling phenomena due to fractal contact in concrete and rock fractures.- Fractals and fractal scaling in fracture mechanics.- 4. Computational Aspects and Nonlocal or Gradient Models.- A unified framework for concrete damage and fracture models including size effects.- Finite element simulation of ring expansion and fragmentation: The capturing of length and time scales through cohesive models of fracture.- Strain gradient interpretation of size effects.- Use of neural networks for fitting of FE probabilistic scaling model parameters.- 5. Size Effects in Concrete, Ice and Soils.- Scale effects on the in-situ tensile strength and fracture of ice. Part I: Large grained freshwater ice at Spray Lakes Reservoir, Alberta.- Scale effects on the in-situ tensile strength and fractureof ice. Part II: First-year sea ice at Resolute, N.W.T..- Size effect and inverse analysis in concrete fracture.- Size effect in shallow and deep notched quasi-brittle structures.- Size effect on the concrete cone pullout load.- Fracture and size effect characters of cemented sand.- Author index.