Fatigue of Materials

Mechanics of Materials helps students gain physical and intuitive understanding of the ideas underlying the mechanics of materials; grasp big picture ideas; and use the subject to solve problems–everything it takes to genuinely learn how the forces acting on a material relate to its deformation and failure Preface; 1. Introduction and overview; Part I. Cyclic Deformation and Fatigue Crack Initiation: 2. Cyclic deformation in ductile single crystals; 3. Cyclic deformation in polycrystalline ductile solids; 4. Fatigue crack initiation in ductile solids; 5. Cyclic deformation and crack initiation in brittle solids; 6. Cyclic deformation and crack initiation in noncrystalline solids; Part II. Total-Life Approaches: 7. Stress-life approach; 8. Strain-life approach; Part III. Damage-Tolerant Approach: 9. Fracture mechanics and its implications for fatigue; 10. Fatigue crack growth in ductile solids; 11. Fatigue crack growth in brittle solids; 12. Fatigue crack growth in noncrystalline solids; Part IV. Advanced Topics: 13. Contact fatigue: sliding, rolling and fretting; 14. Retardation and transients in fatigue crack growth; 15. Small fatigue cracks; 16. Environmental interactions: corrosion-fatigue and creep-fatigue; Appendix; References; Indexes