Complexity and evolution in fracture mechanics

Issue title: Special Issue: Memorial Issue in the Honor of Prof. Takeo Yokobori

Guest editors: Alberto Carpinteri, Yu Shouwen and Teruo Kishi

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yu, Shouwen^a;

Affiliations: [a] Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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Abstract: Professor Takeo Yokobori passed away in the autumn of 2017 with a hundred years of brilliant life. As the founding president and honorary president of the International Congress on Fracture (ICF), he is a great and well-respected scientist. His academic heritage is beneficial to the international fracture community. His academic achievements and wisdom have led and nourished the ICF, making it a scientific, democratic and harmonious academic community from the date of its establishment in 1965 and guiding it towards a new future. As early as in the 1950s, Professor Yokobori proposed a micro-to-macroscopic approach for fracture studies, which boosted academic exchange and collaboration between material scientists and researchers of fracture mechanics. As a consequence, the ICF had gathered a large number of researchers engaged in mechanics and material sciences right after its establishment.

Keywords: Complexity, damage evolution, fracture mechanics, holistic approach

DOI: 10.3233/SFC-190237

Journal: Strength, Fracture and Complexity, vol. 12, no. 2-4, pp. 75-77, 2020