Abstract
Almost half a century ago, fracture mechanics started in Germany with the foundation of the DVM Working Group Fracture Mechanics in 1969. The present authors have been partly involved in the further development of fracture and damage mechanics, one with particular interest in elastic-plastic fracture and modelling, the other in thin-walled structures, fatigue and assessment. They take the colloquium in honour of the 65th birthday of Professor Meinhard Kuna as occasion to highlight some significant achievements on the background of personal experience. In particular, they intend to show that both fracture and damage mechanics started with paradigm changes which were partly looked at with distrust in the beginning but turned out to be seminal.
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Notes
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Translation from the preface of the German edition [57] by the present authors who made an effort to meet Neuber’s particular terminology as authentically as possible.
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Where it has later been replaced by the J-integral, see below, or by K J -values calculated from J according to LEFM.
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EPRI is the acronym for Electric Power Research Institute which is financed by American power generating companies.
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Brocks, W., Schwalbe, KH. (2016). Experimental and Numerical Fracture Mechanics—An Individually Dyed History. In: Hütter, G., Zybell, L. (eds) Recent Trends in Fracture and Damage Mechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21467-2_2
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