Designing new structural materials, extending lifetimes and guarding
against fracture in service are among the preoccupations of engineers,
and to deal with these they need to have command of the mechanics of
material behaviour. This ought to reflect in the training of students.
In this respect, the first volume of this work deals with elastic,
elastoplastic, elastoviscoplastic and viscoelastic behaviours; this
second volume continues with fracture mechanics and damage, and with
contact mechanics, friction and wear. As in Volume I, the treatment
links the active mechanisms on the microscopic scale and the laws of
macroscopic behaviour. Chapter I is an introduction to the various
damage phenomena. Chapter II gives the essential of fracture mechanics.
Chapter III is devoted to brittle fracture, chapter IV to ductile
fracture and chapter V to the brittle-ductile transition. Chapter VI is
a survey of fatigue damage. Chapter VII is devoted to hydrogen
embrittlement and to environment assisted cracking, chapter VIII to
creep damage. Chapter IX gives results of contact mechanics and a
description of friction and wear mechanisms. Finally, chapter X treats
damage in non metallic materials: ceramics, glass, concrete, polymers,
wood and composites. The volume includes many explanatory diagrams and
illustrations. A third volume will include exercises allowing deeper
understanding of the subjects treated in the first two volumes.