Fatigue of Materials and Structures: Application to Damage and Design, Volume 2ISBN: 978-1-84821-267-1
Hardcover
512 pages
February 2011, Wiley-ISTE
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The design of mechanical structures with improved and predictable
durability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding of
the mechanisms of fatigue damage and more specifically the
relationships between the microstructure of materials and their
fatigue properties. Written by leading experts in the field, this
book (which is complementary to Fatigue of Materials and
Structures: Application to Damage and Design, also edited by Claude
Bathias and André Pineau), provides an authoritative,
comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and
micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, polymers and composites. Each
chapter is devoted to one of the major classes of materials or to
different types of fatigue damage, thereby providing overall
coverage of the field.
The book deals with crack initiation, crack growth, low-cycle fatigue, gigacycle fatigue, shorts cracks, fatigue micromechanisms and the local approach to fatigue damage, corrosion fatigue, environmental effects and variable amplitude loadings, and will be an important and much used reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerous areas of mechanical, structural, civil, design, nuclear, and aerospace engineering as well as materials science.