Advanced Methods of Fatigue Assessments

Advanced Methods of Fatigue Assessments

In five chapters, this volume presents recent developments in fatigue assessment. In the first chapter, a generalized Neuber concept of fictitious notch rounding is presented where the microstructural support factors depend on the notch opening angle besides the loading mode. The second chapter specifies the notch stress factor including the strain energy density and J-integral concept while the SED approach is applied to common fillet welded joints and to thin-sheet lap welded joints in the third chapter. The forth chapter analyses elastic-plastic deformations in the near crack tip zone and discusses driving force parameters. The last chapter discusses thermomechanical fatigue, stress, and strain ranges.

Advanced Methods of Fatigue Assessments

Theory of Elasticity for Scientists and Engineers

Theory of Elasticity for Scientists and Engineers

This book treats classical elasticity theory from a modern point of vi ew, providing a general introduction to the various branches of elasti city theory. Contact and impact problems are treated in detail with im portant examples and new results. Elastic stability is treated through both static and dynamic methods. The adaptive theory of elasticity is developed to describe the functional adaptation behavior of smart mat erials.

Theory of Elasticity for Scientists and Engineers

Electronic Basis of the Strength of Materials

Electronic Basis of the Strength of Materials

This book is the first to relate the complete set of strength characteristics of constituent atoms to their electronic structures. These relationships require knowledge of both chemistry and physics of materials. The book uses both classical and quantum mechanics, since both are needed to describe these properties, and begins with short reviews of each. Following these reviews, the three major branches of the strength of materials are given their own sections. They are: the elastic stiffnesses; the plastic responses; and the nature of fracture.

Electronic Basis of the Strength of Materials