Fracture and Society
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Fracture and Society
Ohmsha , IOS Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
An historical account of experts who have developed the science and technology of the fracture of many kinds of solids. These range from natural materials, such as rock and woods, to artificial structural materials such as those used in space transport.
Table of Contents
- How did Leonardo da Vinci discover the size effect in material fracture?
- how did Galileo Galilei calculate the strength of materials?
- how did men come to a complete recognition of the concept of stress and fracture resistance of solids in Europe of the 18th century?
- how did men first investigate the science of metal fatigue in the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century?
- what is metal fatigue, relevant to cumulative and catastrophic failure and inelastic hysteresis?
- how did men first study the science of metallic creep and environment assisted cracking in the latter half of the 19th century?
- how did material fracture research start in Japan?
- Alan Arnold Griffith, an aeronautical engineer who founded fracture mechanics in 1920
- how did men study the fracture strength of crystalline solids?
- how has the mechanics of material fracture advanced as a technology? - the men who first studied modern material fracture control and structural reliability
- how was fractology formed and advanced?
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