Richard M. Christensen
Brief Biography

Looking Ahead

Future possibilities for this website include such interrelated topics as:

• Damage detection for structural health monitoring
   
• Rationale for the accelerated testing of materials life
   
• High rate failure processes
   
• The size/scale effect in failure
   
• Designing with Brittle Materials
   

Other specific topics of interest and relevance may evolve.

Failure Surface Graphics

Home Page

Recent Additons
Updated June. 13, 2019

Failure Characterization

Key Junctures

Navigating the Website
Understanding the Discipline

The First Failure Criterion

General Matters

New Book on Failure

How Do Mises & Tresca Fit In

Is It Stress or Strain

A Basic Failure Mechanism

Can Atomic/Nano Scale
Failure Events Predict
Macroscopic Failure

The Ductile-Brittle Problem

Damage

Failure Theory Applications

The Brittle Limit

Unsolved Problems

Which is Fundamental:
T&C or S&D

Physical Ductility of Elements

Letter to WWFE

WWFE-II Results

A Call to Service

Timoshenko Medal

Acknowledgment

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Richard M. Christensen

Looking Ahead