"Contact and Fracture Mechanics" ed. by Pranav H. Darji

This book deals with contact and fracture mechanics. The different contributions of this book will cover the various advanced topics of research. It provides some needed background with respect to contact mechanics, fracture mechanics and the use of finite element methods in both.

All the covered chapters of this book are of a theoretical and applied nature, suitable for the researchers of engineering, physics, applied mathematics and mechanics with an interest in computer simulation of contact and fracture problems.

Contents
1 Contact Mechanics of Rough Surfaces in Hermetic Sealing Studies
2 Experimental Studies of Nanometer-Scaled Single-Asperity Contacts with Metal Surfaces
3 Deformation Regimes for Sphere-Plane Contact: Revisiting Tabor's Criteria for Differential Hardness
4 Adaptive Mesh Refinement Strategy for the Semi-Analytical Solution of Frictionless Elastic Contact Problems
5 Improving Contact Load-Bearing Resistance of Ultrafine-Grained Materials Through Multilayering and Grading
6 Modeling Friction for Turbomachinerv Applications: Tuning Techniques and Adequacy Assessment of Heuristic Contact Models
7 Single-Curvature Sandwich Panels with Aluminum Foam Cores under Impulsive Loading
8 Fracture Toughness Determination with the Use of Miniaturized Specimens
9 Fatigue Fracture of Functionally Graded Materials Under Elastic-Plastic Loading Conditions Using Extended Finite Element Method
10 Fretting: Review on the Numerical Simulation and Modeling of Wear, Fatigue and Fracture
11 Determination of Fracture Toughness Characteristics of Small-Size Chevron-Notched Specimens
12 Numerical Analysis Methods of Structural Fatigue and Fracture Problems
13 Accelerated Fatigue Test in Mechanical Components