Krajcinovic, Dusan (ed.); Van Mier, Jan (ed.) Damage and fracture of disordered materials. (English) Zbl 0968.74002 CISM Courses and Lectures. 410. Wien: Springer. vi, 263 p. (2000). This is a collection of lectures presented in a special course organized by “International centre for mechanical sciences”, Udine, Italy. Contents: 1. Introduction to damage mechanics, by D. Krajcinovic; 2. Statistics toolbox for damage and fracture, by A. Hansen and S. Roux; 3. Molecular and particle simulations, by D. Krajcinovic; 4. Measurement and damage parameters of brittle disordered media like concrete and rock, by J. Van Mier; 5. Micro-crack clustering, non-local and gradient models, by G. Pijaudier-Cabot; 6. Premises to a multifield approach to stochastic damage evolution, by P. M. Mariano. Mainly statistical physics method are used to study the effects of random distributed microcracks. On balance, this is an interesting and useful contribution. Reviewer: J.Golecki (Haifa) Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 74-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids 74A45 Theories of fracture and damage 00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest 74Rxx Fracture and damage 82D30 Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) Keywords:Disordered materials; micro-crack clustering; damage mechanics; fracture; brittle disordered media; concrete; rock; multifield approach; stochastic damage evolution; statistical physics; random distributed microcracks PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. Krajcinovic} (ed.) and \textit{J. Van Mier} (ed.), Damage and fracture of disordered materials. Wien: Springer (2000; Zbl 0968.74002)