Physics of cracks and damage
Category
FP7 Project with U.S. partner
Short name and number
PhyCracks (220494)
Area
No theme specific
Description
The objective of PhyCracks is to provide a statistical description of the basic processes occurring at the microstructure scale during the failure of materials (damage, plasticity). This description will result in a model of crack propagation that ultimately will lead to predictive constitutive laws less phenomenological than the ones currently used by engineers.
Participating Countries
France and United States.
Name of US Partner
California Institute of Technology
Contact
COMMISSARIAT A L' ENERGIE ATOMIQUE (FR) / ARRIGAS Anne