Metal Fatigue:
For twenty long years, Metal Fatigue in Engineering has served as an important feature and reference for students and practicing engineers concerned with the design, development, and failure analysis of components, structures, and vehicles subjected to repeated loading. Now this generously revised and expanded and there is an edition published and it retains the best features of the original while bringing it up to date with the latest developments in the field. Its main focus is on applied engineering design, with a view to producing products that are safe, reliable, and economical. There is coverage of today's in detail as most common analytical methods of fatigue design and fatigue life predictions/estimations for metals. Contents which are included in it are arranged logically, moving from simple to more complex fatigue loading and conditions.
How does the book help?
There is a full range of helpful learning aids, including worked examples and hundreds of problems, references, and figures as well as chapter summaries and design do's and don'ts are also mentioned in the books sections to help speed and reinforce understanding of the material. In another edition there is an enhanced coverage of micro/macro fatigue mechanisms, notch strain analysis, fatigue crack growth at notches, residual stresses, digital prototyping, and fatigue design of weldments No proportional loading and critical plane approaches for multiaxial fatigue and there is a new chapter on statistical aspects of fatigue.
Views about this book:
Metal Fatigue book has definitive, clearly written, and well-illustrated volume addresses all aspects of the subject, from the historical development of understanding metal fatigue to vital concepts of the cyclic stress that causes a crack to grow. It also examines effect of stress concentrations on notches, theories of fatigue crack propagation, and many other topics. There are many appendixes which describe laboratory fatigue testing, stress concentrations, material stress-strain relationships, and much more. The book begins with discussions of cyclic deformation and fatigue crack initiation in monocrystalline and polycrystalline ductile alloys as well as in brittle and semi-/non-crystalline solids which are responsible for many chemical reactions. There is a consideration and an analysis of total life and damage-tolerant approaches are then introduced in metals, nonmetals and composites. This will be an important reference for anyone studying fracture and fatigue in materials science and engineering, mechanical, civil, nuclear and aerospace engineering, and biomechanics and will serve as bliss for the people in various arenas.