Fatigue of Materials

Second edition of successful materials science text for final year undergraduate and graduate students.

S. Suresh (Author)

9780521578479, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 October 1998

704 pages, 288 b/w illus. 12 tables
24.5 x 16.7 x 3.6 cm, 1.08 kg

'The phenomenon of fatigue plagues materials of every kind in a host of applications, and Professor Suresh's treatise is similarly wide ranging.' Contemporary Physics

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this revised and updated second edition of a highly successful book provides an authoritative, comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, non-metals and composites. The author discusses the principles of cyclic deformation, crack initiation and crack growth by fatigue, covering both microscopic and continuum aspects. 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. Total life and damage-tolerant approaches are then introduced in metals, non-metals and composites followed by more advanced topics. The book includes an extensive bibliography and a problem set for each chapter, together with worked-out example problems and case studies. 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]