TY - CHAP A1 - Paggi, Marco A1 - Carpinteri, Alberto A1 - Zavarise, Giorgio SN - 978-3-540-31761-6 PB - Springer-Verlag N2 - A unified interface constitutive law for the description of contact and decohesion at bi-material interfaces is proposed. To this aim, a synthesis of the nonlinear models pertaining to Fracture and Contact Mechanics is presented. The issues pertinent to the implementation within the FE discretization framework are also discussed in detail. Finally, a numerical example of fatigue modeling at the mesoscopical level in a fiber-reinforced composite is provided. T3 - Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics SP - 297 TI - A unified interface constitutive law for the study of fracture and contact problems in heterogeneous materials AV - none Y1 - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31761-9_33 ID - eprints1943 EP - 304 T2 - Analysis and Simulation of Contact Problems ER -