Damage Mechanics p. 1
Review of Continuum Damage Mechanics p. 2
Decomposition of the Damage Variable in One Dimension p. 3
General Decomposition of the Damage Variable in Three Dimensions p. 7
Damage of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials with Micromechanical Characterization p. 11
Finite Element Damage Analysis of Plate Bending p. 37
Introduction p. 37
Ductile Plastic Damage in Plate Bending Problems p. 39
A Damage Node Model for Ductile Plastic Damage of Plate Bending p. 45
Using DNA p. 53
Installing DNA p. 55
Running DNA p. 56
Installing Ghostscript and GSView p. 58
Viewing the Finite Element Mesh and Contours p. 58
Installing the DNA Windows Interface p. 70
Using the DNA Windows Interface p. 71
Example 1 - Plane Strain Problem in Plasticity p. 74
Example 2 - Elastic Cantilever with Two Elements p. 74
Example 3 - Center-Cracked Plate Under Uniaxial Tension p. 76
Compiling and Building the DNA Executables p. 76
DNA Commands p. 83
Command Reference p. 83
Library of Finite Elements in DNA p. 96
The Tensor Library p. 99
Introduction p. 99
Fortran Source Code p. 101
References p. 103
Contents of the Accompanying CD-ROM p. 109
Subject Index p. 111