
A Practical Approach to Fracture Mechanics
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Key Features
- Concisely outlines the underlying fundamentals of fracture mechanics, making physical concepts clear and simple and providing easily-understood applied examples
- Includes solved problems of the most common calculations, along with step-by-step procedures to perform widely-used methods in fracture mechanics
- Demonstrates how to determine stress intensity factors and fracture toughness, estimate crack growth rate, calculate failure load, and other methods and techniques
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Table of Contents
1. General Concepts of Mechanical Behavior and Fracture
1.1. Fracture Mechanics Field of Application
1.2. Definition of Stress and Strain
1.3. Mechanical Behavior Under Tension
1.4. The Stress Tensor
1.5. The Mohr's Circle
1.6. Yield Criteria
1.7. Stress Concentration
1.8. Definitions and Basic Concepts of Fracture
1.9. Objective and Field of Application of Fracture Mechanics2. Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics
2.1. Cohesive Strength
2.2. The Griffith Criterion
2.3. The Stress Intensity Factor (Irwin's Analysis)
2.4. Known Solutions of the Stress Intensity Factor
2.5. Expermiental Determination of the Stress Intensity Factor
2.6. Experimental Determination of the Stress Intensity Factor by the Finite Element Method
2.7. The Plastic Zone
2.8. The Crack Tip Opening Displacement3. The Energy Criterion and Fracture Toughness
3.1. The Energy Criterion
3.2. The R-Curve
3.3. Plane Strain Fracture Toughness
3.4. Plane Strain Fracture Toughness Testing (KIC)
3.5. Effect of the Size on Fracture Toughness
3.6. Charpy Impact Energy Fracture Toughness Correlations
3.7. Dynamic Fracture and Crack Arrest4. Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics
4.1. Elastoplastic Fracture and the J Integral
4.2. JIC Testing
4.3. Use of the J Integral as a Fracture Parameter
4.4. The Crack Tip Opening Displacement as Fracture Parameter
4.5. The Two-Parameter Criterion5. Fracture Resistance of Engineering Materials
5.1. Remaining Strength
5.2. Materials Selection for Fracture Resistance
5.3. Material Properties Charts
5.4. Failure Analysis Using Fracture Mechanics
5.5. Reinforcement of Cracked Structures
5.6. The Leak-Before-Break Condition6. Fatigue and Environmentally Assisted Crack Propagation
6.1. Fatigue Crack Growth and the Paris' Law
6.2. Effect of the Load Ratio on Fatigue Crack Growth Rate
6.3. Fatigue Crack Closure
6.4. The Effect of Environment on the Fatigue Crack Growth
6.5. Effect of Variable Loads on Fatigue Crack Growth
6.6. Effect of a Single Overload on Fatigue Crack Growth
6.7. Fatigue Cracks Emanating from Notches
6.8. Stress-Corrosion Cracking
6.9. Creep Crack Growth
6.10. Crack Growth by Absorbed Hydrogen7. Structural Integrity
7.1. In-Service Damage of Structural Components
7.2. General Aspects of Structural Integrity
7.3. Remaining Life of Cracked Components
7.4. A Methodology for the Estimation of Remaining Life
7.5. Structural Integrity Assessment Procedure
7.6. Example of a Structural Integrity Assessment
Product details
- No. of pages: 284
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2020
- Published: October 8, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128230206
- eBook ISBN: 9780128230527
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Jorge Gonzalez-Velazquez
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