{"id":9376,"date":"2018-09-04T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T04:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vesti.mas.bg.ac.rs\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2018-09-04T06:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T04:40:50","slug":"the-route-to-j-integral-by-prof-james-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vesti.mas.bg.ac.rs\/?p=9376","title":{"rendered":"The route to J-integral by prof. James Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Professor James Rice, world-leading expert in the field of mechanics, recently visited the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, where he held a heavily attended lecture devoted to the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of his paper about the J-integral. The lecture was a part of the international fracture mechanics Summer School, an event that accompanied the 22nd<\/sup> European Conference on Fracture which is currently taking place at the \u201cMetropol\u201d hotel.<\/p>\n

James rice is a professor of engineering sciences and geophysics at the Harvard University in the USA. Fifty years ago he formulated one of the most important fracture mechanics parameters, the so-called J-integral, which is defined as one of the means for calculating of the change in fracture surface strain energy, which is of great significance in structural integrity assessment. During his lecture, Professor Rice also mentioned some of the applications of the J-integral, which was particularly important to some of the Summer School participants.<\/p>\n

The concept of the J-integral is indubitably one the most important scientific contributions of prof. Rice. During the last few decades, his research was focused on the subjects in the field of geomechanics \u2013 glaciers, earthquakes and other important aspects of fracture, which he specifically spoke of in his introductory lesson at the opening of the 22nd<\/sup> European Conference on Fracture.<\/p>\n\n\t\t