Fracture and Fatigue – A challenge for applied mathematicians
Grigory Barenblatt, UC Berkeley
September 16th, 2009 at 4PM–5PM in 939 Evans Hall [Map]
A concise survey of basic facts, hypotheses, and scaling laws in fatigue and
fracture will be presented. It will be shown that fatigue and fracture form a
challenge for sincere applied mathematicians not less, but even more, than
turbulence.