PARÍS CARBALLO , Federico (Coordinador)

A new linear elastic and perfectly brittle interface model for mixed mode is presented and analysed. In this model, the interface is represented by a continuous distribution of springs which simulates the presence of a thin elastic layer. The constitutive law for the continuous distribution of normal and tangential initially-linear-elastic...

The plane strain problem of a single circular cylindrical inclusion embedded in an unbounded matrix subjected to a remote uniform uniaxial transverse tension is studied. A theoretical model for the simultaneous prediction of \emph{the initial size of a crack originated at the inclusion/matrix interface} (or equivalently the initial polar...