Fracture mechanics : integration of mechanics, materials science, and chemistry

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Fracture mechanics : integration of mechanics, materials science, and chemistry

Robert P. Wei

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description

Fracture and 'slow' crack growth reflect the response of a material (i.e. its microstructure) to the conjoint actions of mechanical and chemical driving forces and are affected by temperature. There is therefore a need for quantitative understanding and modeling of the influences of chemical and thermal environments and of microstructure, in terms of the key internal and external variables, and for their incorporation into design and probabilistic implications. This text, which the author has used in a fracture mechanics course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, is based on the work of the author's Lehigh University team whose integrative research combined fracture mechanics, surface and electrochemistry, materials science, and probability and statistics to address a range of fracture safety and durability issues on aluminum, ferrous, nickel, and titanium alloys and ceramics. Examples are included to highlight the approach and applicability of the findings in practical durability and reliability problems.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physical basis of fracture mechanics
  • 3. Stress analysis of cracks
  • 4. Experimental determination of fracture toughness
  • 5. Fracture considerations for design
  • 6. Subcritical crack growth - creep controlled crack growth
  • 7. Subcritical crack growth - stress corrosion cracking and fatigue crack growth (phenomenology)
  • 8. Subcritical crack growth - environmentally enhanced crack growth under sustained loads (or stress corrosion cracking)
  • 9. Subcritical crack growth - environmentally assisted fatigue crack growth (or corrosion fatigue)
  • 10. Science-based probability modeling and life-cycle engineering and management.

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  • NCID
    BB01710363
  • ISBN
    • 9780521194891
  • LCCN
    2009044098
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 214 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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