Departement of Mechanical Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
The talk concerns the use and the computation of the stress intensity factor to predict the the onset of failures and cracks. The is part of a work developed with B.A. Szabo, see for instance, A note on numerically computed eigenfunctions and generalized stress intensity factors associated with singular points, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 54, 593-595, 1996.