About the Book: Failure and Damage Analysis of Advanced Materials
Failure and damage analysis with discussed on advanced materials such as
composites, laminates, sandwiches and foams, and also new metallic materials.
Starting from some mathematical foundations (limit surfaces, symmetry
considerations, invariants) new experimental results and their analysis are
shown. Finally, new concepts for failure prediction and analysis will be
introduced and discussed as well as new methods of failure and damage prediction
for advanced metallic and non-metallic materials. Based on experimental results
the traditional methods will be revised. Failure as a limit state of the
material behavior is well known from engineering practice. Different types of
failure can be