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W. G. Pritchard Lab Seminar: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM, 216 McAllister Bldg

	            **Monday November 14, 2005**
	
Modeling fracture in materials with memory

Jay R. Walton

Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University

Abstract:

Many important naturally occurring and synthetic materials exhibit memory 
in their thermomechanical behavior. In such materials, thermal fluxes and 
mechanical stresses depend on the history of temperature and deformation 
gradients rather than on just their instantaneous, current values. These 
history effects are most easily simulated within the context of the 
linearized theory of viscoelasticity. This talk focusses upon mathematical 
and modeling issues arising in the study of fracture boundary value 
problems in the context of linear viscoelasticity. Both a survey of the 
subject's history and open problems are discussed.

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