Mechanics
and Mechanisms of Fracture:
An Introduction
Author: Alan
Liu ISBN: 0-87170-802-7
Product Code:
6954 Date: Oct 2005
Pages: 500
Price $ 200
Product Description
This text is for readers who want an introductory overview on the
mechanical and
material factors of
fracture in design analysis, material evaluation, and failure
prevention. Both
fundamental and practical concepts of fracture are described in
terms of stress analysis
and the mechanical behavior of materials. The metallurgical
aspects of deformation and
fracture in metals are also discussed. This book can serve
as a desktop reference
book, or a self-study book, for engineering students and
practicing engineers with
some, or without, prior training in solid mechanics and/or
mechanical metallurgy.
The focus is on how machine
(or structural) parts fail, why one piece fails in a certain way and another
piece fails differently;
and engineering tools for
analyzing and, ultimately, preventing failure. Metals occupy the main part of
the book, but
nonmetallic materials such
as ceramics, plastics, and fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites are also
included. The first
two chapters of this book
can be considered as the fundamentals of stress analysis and mechanical behavior
of materials.
Chapter 1 serves as a crash
course (or a refresh course) in strength of materials that prepares the reader
with the basic
analytical tools for the
rest of the book.
Topics include:
fracture mechanics, fatigue, and failures associated with high-temperature
creep, stress-corrosion,
corrosion-fatigue, and
hydrogen-embrittlement. Numerous examples are given through out this book to
illustrate the
elastic and plastic
behavior of materials at a stress raiser, and how the static, fatigue, and
residual strengths of a machine
part might have been
affected by it.
Contents: Solid Mechanics of Homogeneous Materials ·
Deformation and Fracture Mechanisms and Static Strength of
Metals · Fatigue Strength of Metals • Static and Dynamic Fracture
Toughness of Metals • Damage Tolerance of Metals
• Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics • Mechanical Behavior of
Nonmetallic Materials • Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced
Composites
Appendices: Lattice Structure and Deformation Mechanisms in
Metallic Single Crystals • Closed-Form Representation of
Tangential Stress Distribution at Circular and Elliptical Holes • A
Nonarbitrary Crack Size Concept for Fatigue Crack
Initiation • Fatigue Spectrum Editing • Stress Severity Factor • Mechanical
Properties Data of Engineering Alloys •
Conversion Table • Glossary of Terms, Symbols, and Abbreviations ·
Index
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