Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology

Foreword.- Modeling fracture by material-point erosion.- Crack front perturbations revisited.- Localisation near defects and filtering of flexural waves in structured plates.- Fracture process in cortical bone: X-FEM analysis of microstructured models.- Minimum theorems in 3D incremental linear elastic fracture mechanics.- Crack patterns obtained by unidirectional drying of a colloidal suspension in a capillary tube: experiments and numerical simulations using a two-dimensional variational approach.- Damage mechanisms in the dynamic fracture of nominally brittle polymers.- Tight sedimentary covers for CO sequestration.- Calibration of brittle fracture models by sharp indenters and inverse analysis.- Statistics of ductile fracture surfaces: the effect of material parameters.- Efficient pseudo-spectral solvers for the PKN model of hydrofracturing.- A solution to the parameter-identification conundrum: multi-scale interaction potentials.- Remarks on application of different variables for the PKN model of hydrofracturing: various fluid-flow regimes.- Prediction of grain boundary stress fields and micro crack initiation induced by slip band impingement.- Modeling the heterogeneous effects of retained austenite on the behavior of martensitic high strength steels.- Crack nucleation from a notch in a ductile material under shear dominant loading.