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| Author(s): | A. M. Khludnev and V. A. Kovtunenko |
| ISBN: | 0 85312 625 X |
| Format: | hardback |
| 386pp | |
| Price: | £124.00, $195.00 |
| Review Date: | 23 May 2000 |
| Review: | The classical approach to crack problems is characterised by the equilibrium of loading on a crack surface, a particular case being traction-free cracks. However, displacements found as solutions to these boundary value problems do not give a nonpenetration condition between crack faces There is evidence to show that interpenetration of crack faces may occur in these cases. An essential feature of this book is that a restriction of Signorini type contact condition is considered along the crack faces, which does not allow the opposite crack faces to penetrate each other. Two- and three-dimensional bodies, plates and shells with cracks are considered. Cracks in plates and shells, complicated plates and solids are all discussed in detail, and cracks in elastic, thermoelastic and elastoplastic bodies are also analysed. |