JOHN W. HUTCHINSON FRACTURE a course on NONLINEAR | MECHANICS DEPARTMENT OF SOLID MECHANICS THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK1A COURSE ON NONLINEAR FRACTURE MECHANICS ‘The notes contained within were prepared in conjunction with a set of lectures delivered during the fall of 1978 at The Solid Mochanics Departuent of the Technical University of Denmark lunder the auspices of the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics land Mechanics. Starting more or lees from scratch in the aub- ject, but assuming at least a limited knowledge of plasticity. have tried to bring the reader right up £0 gone of the topics of curkent interest, from both engineering and research posnts of view. The section headings are listed on the next page. Joan W. Hutchinson January 5, 1979+ Solutions to linear elastic crack problene « - Energy release rate, compliance anal - Energy methods for estimating Gan + The concept of small scale yielding - Initiation of crack growth in sis. the Jnintegra + The Dugdale-Bar Crack tip fed + Analysts of Large scale yielding + Configuration dependence in SECTION HEADINGS tion to stress intensity factors . Crack growth and stability in s.s.y. + Other applications of linear elastic fracture mechanics Blastic-plastic ns in e..y Seintegral testing «+ sey. and Linstations of single parameter crack tip characterizations .. Relationship between 6, and J under J-dorineted conditions . abtions eee. cee Source of stable crack growth .