Fracture is one of the major failure modes in structures and computational modeling helps in understanding the crack initiation and propagation, which leads to ultimate fracture at various material length scales ranging from atomic to macro scales. The book mainly focuses on developing direction dependent non-local approaches for modeling different failure modes in multi-phase materials. Additionally, it has several numerical simulations with MATLAB codes to enhance the understanding of composite failure.
Dr D. Pranavi is a lead engineer at GE (General Electric) Aerospace, India. She has completed her PhD and MTech under the guidance of Prof Amirtham Rajagopal, department of civil engineering, IITH (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad), India. She has completed her BTech from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University college of Engineering Hyderabad, India. Her research interests include fracture mechanics, cohesive zone modeling and mechanics of composites. She has five international journal publications, seven international conference publications, and one book chapter.A. Rajagopal is a professor at the department of civil engineering, IITH. He is the recipient of DST (Department of Science and Technology) Young Scientist Fellowship Award, 2012. Damage Mechanics, fracture mechanics, multiscale modeling of materials, mechanics of composites, linear/nonlinear finite element method, meshless methods, polygonal FEM, phase field approach are some of his research interests.
