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Fatigue of Materials (Cambridge Solid State Science Series) [Paperback]

Subra Suresh (Author)
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September 28, 1992 0521437636 978-0521437639
Written by one of the most widely quoted researchers in the field, this book is the first to provide an authoritative, comprehensive, and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, nonmetals, and composites.


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."..a comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue....should be of substantial interest to researchers in the area of fatigue who desire an overview of this most important field. It would be an excellent text for a senior-graduate level course on fatigue or a supplement to courses in fracture mechanics or mechanical behavior of materials." John E. Ritter, Ceramic Abstracts

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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. 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 604 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 28, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521437636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521437639
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,977,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Researcher's book on Fracture Mechanics, November 20, 2000
Fatigue of Materials is a good book for researchers and students in fracture mechanics. Book briefly covers stress life and strain life fatigue approaches. Book is written at a graduate level with predominately theoretical content. Author also provides real case studies mainly from aerospace industry. Current topics such as crack retardation, small cracks, mixed mode, crack closure, etc. are covered in this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, July 28, 2009
This is perhaps the most comprehensive summary of the fatigue literature up to the time of its publication (2003 for the corrected second edition). It covers all aspects of the fatigue of materials in very great detail. It has chapters on historical aspects, micro-mechanisms of the fatigue process, crack initiation, crack growth, strain-life approaches, stress-life approaches, the influence of environment, behavior of single crystals as well as polycrystalline solids, effects of mean stress and spectrum loading, as well as many other topics. (Rather than being covered in a separate chapter, the statistical aspects of fatigue are covered in various sections.)

This is a very good resource for researchers, and one that I used, but I think that its very comprehensiveness detracts from its value as a textbook. There is simply too much material to make it a good text, although it was one that was used for Professor Suresh's MIT course. Professor Suresh tried to include everything (and largely succeeded), but not being selective, a student does not know what are the most important aspects of the subject, requiring a lot of selection and direction on the part of a teacher. I prefer "Metal Fatigue in Engineering" by Stephens et. al. as textbook, especially if the course of study is self directed.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Materials fatigue review : the reference, August 4, 2006
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This book allows to have a very good vision of the fatigue mechanisms of materials and the way to model them.

Very exhaustive, very well documented : a reference in the materials fatigue world!
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The word fatigue originated from the Latin expression fatigare which means 'to tire'. Read the first page
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kinematic irreversibility, matrix vein structure, nonzero mean stress, higher cyclic frequencies, low plastic strain amplitudes, slip irreversibility, tensile fatigue cracks, threshold stress intensity factor range, fatigue crack advance, cyclic torsional loading, fracture surface asperities, cyclic deformation characteristics, cyclic deformation response, fatigue flaws, glassy ligaments, maximum shear strain amplitude, fatigue crack growth characteristics, cyclic plastic zone size, characteristic microstructural size scale, tensile loading axis, sliding contact fatigue, monotonic plastic zone, advancing fatigue crack, embrittling environment, fatigue crack closure
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Combining Eqs, Copyright Pergamon Press, Copyright Metallurgical Transactions, Copyright Taylor, After Suresh, United States, Air Force, Reyes Morel, After Lindley, Copyright American Ceramic Society, After Dafalias, After Dowling, After Hertzberg, After Kobayashi, After Neumann, Copyright Chapman
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