Praised by readers for its usefulness, this book covers the entire area of mechanical behavior of materials from a practical engineering viewpoint, providing a single-source introductory analysis with specific coverage on materials testing, yield criteria, stress-based fatigue, fracture mechanics, crack growth, strain-based fatigue, and creep. Explains test methods and the principles behind them, and explores engineering methods for predicting strength and life, with real-date worked examples. Completely updates discussions on fracture mechanics, stress-based fatigue, and creep, and adds three new appendices; one that reviews useful topics from elementary mechanics of materials, one that considers statistical variation in materials properties, and a third that aids in locating materials property information in the tables found in various chapters. Updated end-of-chapter references lead to sources of materials data and to more detailed information. For the mechanical engineer, materials engineer, aeronautical engineer, structural engineer, design engineer, or test engineer.
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Praised by readers for its usefulness, this book covers the entire area of mechanical behavior of materials from a practical engineering viewpoint, providing a single-source introductory analysis with specific coverage on materials testing, yield criteria, stress-based fatigue, fracture mechanics, crack growth, strain-based fatigue, and creep. Explains test methods and the principles behind them, and explores engineering methods for predicting strength and life, with real-date worked examples. Completely updates discussions on fracture mechanics, stress-based fatigue, and creep, and adds three new appendices; one that reviews useful topics from elementary mechanics of materials, one that considers statistical variation in materials properties, and a third that aids in locating materials property information in the tables found in various chapters. Updated end-of-chapter references lead to sources of materials data and to more detailed information. For the mechanical engineer, materials engineer, aeronautical engineer, structural engineer, design engineer, or test engineer.
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This review is from: Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This is a very comprehensive and well-written book. Unlike other books that are overly theoretical, this book emphasizes practical methods that are currently being used to solve real-world problems. The treatment of uniaxial fatigue (both stress-based and strain-based) is superb. The chapters on failure theories and 3-D stress/strain are also excellent. Some readers like myself, however, may want a little more coverage of multiaxial fatigue. There is also no coverage at all on column stability. However, if you've found that your college texts on Machine Design and Mechanics of Materials are simply too idealized to be useful, you'll embrace this book with open arms.
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This review is from: Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
Professor Dowling has done a remarkable job in presenting his material. "Mechanical Behavior of Materials" is pedagogically solid, enabling comfortable self-study for engineering students or practicing engineers. The coverage of deformation, static failure, and fatigue failure analyses are comprehensive, and yet sufficiently detailed to be applied in practice. Individual chapters are devoted to each of the three major fatigue analysis techniques, i.e., stress, strain, and fracture mechanics methods. Each are clearly and thoroughly explained, along with their applications and limitations. Also covered are a host of standard testing procedures, material properties for all major classes, plasticity, creep, relaxation, and material damping (a rarity). Altogether, Professor Dowling's book stands out as an exceptional example of what an engineering text should be. It is a very fine successor to an earlier, and still worthwhile work called "Stress, Strain, and Strength" by the late Professor Robert Juvinall. Another useful book, is "Metal Fatigue in Engineering", by Fuchs and Stephens.
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Designers of machines, vehicles, and structures must achieve acceptable levels of performance and economy, while at the same time striving to guarantee that the item is both safe and durable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transient creep model, maximum shear criterion, shear stress yield criterion, engineering fracture strength, making life estimates, nominal stress amplitude, multistage spring, nonzero mean stress, environmental crack growth, notched member, creep elements, standard compact specimen, maximum normal stress criterion, short fatigue lives, principal normal stresses, frictional sliders, uniaxial curve, deformation plasticity theory, current crack length, true fracture strength, plasticity limitations, elastic stress concentration factor, shear stress criterion, elliptical hysteresis, principal normal strains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Conshohocken, John Wiley, Automotive Engineers, Materials Park, Fracture of Cracked Members Chap, Fatigue Crack Growth Chap, Pergamon Press, Fatigue Chap, Fatigue Design Handbook, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, Strain Figure, Virginia Tech, Repeat Prob, Survey of Engineering Materials Chap, General References, Cycles Figure, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Desk Edition, Aerospace Structural Metals Handbook, Coordination Activity, Handbook Operation, Introduction Chap New!
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Designers of machines, vehicles, and structures must achieve acceptable levels of performance and economy, while at the same time striving to guarantee that the item is both safe and durable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transient creep model, maximum shear criterion, shear stress yield criterion, engineering fracture strength, making life estimates, nominal stress amplitude, multistage spring, nonzero mean stress, environmental crack growth, notched member, creep elements, standard compact specimen, maximum normal stress criterion, short fatigue lives, principal normal stresses, frictional sliders, uniaxial curve, deformation plasticity theory, current crack length, true fracture strength, plasticity limitations, elastic stress concentration factor, shear stress criterion, elliptical hysteresis, principal normal strains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Conshohocken, John Wiley, Automotive Engineers, Materials Park, Fracture of Cracked Members Chap, Fatigue Crack Growth Chap, Pergamon Press, Fatigue Chap, Fatigue Design Handbook, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, Strain Figure, Virginia Tech, Repeat Prob, Survey of Engineering Materials Chap, General References, Cycles Figure, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Desk Edition, Aerospace Structural Metals Handbook, Coordination Activity, Handbook Operation, Introduction Chap New!
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- Fracture Mechanics (Siam-Ams Proceedings, V. 12.) by N. Y.) Symposium in Applied Mathematics (1978 New York on 6 pages
- Stress Concentration Factors by Rudolph Earl Peterson on 4 pages
- Fatigue Design: Life Expectancy of Machine Parts by Eliahu Zahavi on 4 pages
- Fracture Mechanics 26th Volume by Walter G. Reuter on 4 pages
- Plasticity and Creep Theory Examples and Problems by Jacek Skrzypek on page 598, page 643, and page 769
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- Computational Granular Dynamics: Models and Algorithms (Scientific Computation) by Thorsten Pöschel in Back Matter
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- Stochastic Dynamics and Control, Volume 4 (Monograph Series on Nonlinear Science and Complexity) by Jian-Qiao Sun Ph.D. M.S. B.S. in Back Matter
- Mechanics of Materials: A Modern Integration of Mechanics and Materials in Structural Design by Christopher Jenkins on page 311
- Steel Designers' Manual by The Steel Construction Institute on page 274
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