Metal Fatigue in Engineering [Hardcover]

Ali Fatemi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471510599 | ISBN-13: 978-0471510598 | Publication Date: December 2000 | Edition: 2

Classic, comprehensive, and up-to-date

Metal Fatigue in Engineering

Second Edition

For twenty years, Metal Fatigue in Engineering has served as an important textbook and reference for students and practicing engineers concerned with the design, development, and failure analysis of components, structures, and vehicles subjected to repeated loading.

Now this generously revised and expanded edition retains the best features of the original while bringing it up to date with the latest developments in the field.

As with the First Edition, this book focuses on applied engineering design, with a view to producing products that are safe, reliable, and economical. It offers in-depth coverage of today's most common analytical methods of fatigue design and fatigue life predictions/estimations for metals. Contents are arranged logically, moving from simple to more complex fatigue loading and conditions. Throughout the book, there is a full range of helpful learning aids, including worked examples and hundreds of problems, references, and figures as well as chapter summaries and "design do's and don'ts" sections to help speed and reinforce understanding of the material.

The Second Edition contains a vast amount of new information, including:
* Enhanced coverage of micro/macro fatigue mechanisms, notch strain analysis, fatigue crack growth at notches, residual stresses, digital prototyping, and fatigue design of weldments
* Nonproportional loading and critical plane approaches for multiaxial fatigue
* A new chapter on statistical aspects of fatigue

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Presents methods proven successful in practice. Covers design procedures, such as safe-life, fail-safe, forecasting of service reliability, monitoring, and inspection; macroscopic and microscopic aspects of fatigue behavior; principles for determining fatigue crack growth and final fracture; scatter of data and statistical methods; environmental factors; and fatigue of joints and compounds. Contains design do's and don'ts and example problems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

Drawing from the vast accumulation of research and design experience from 1860 to 1980, this book presents methods which have been proven successful in avoiding fatigue failure of metals. It achieves brevity by omitting interesting research results which have not yet led to practical applications. Data presented for many of the metals include not only traditional fatigue limits but also the more modern parameters derived from strain controlled tests and from crack propagation tests. Hard-to-find data information is provided on self (or residual) stresses produced by heat treating and shot peening, on crack propagation thresholds, and on the scatter found by investigators in their fatigue tests. The authors emphasize the importance of self-stresses and stress concentrations since these concepts provide a key to successful fatigue design. The methods for analysis and testing of products or components explained in this book range from the simplest to the most complex. They have all been used by practicing engineers. The advantages and disadvantages of the various methods are discussed so that engineers can make informed choices. "Dos and Don’ts in Design" follow most chapters. Example problems, in addition to more than 100 other problems and more than 300 references, enhance the book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 472 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 2 edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471510599
• ISBN-13: 978-0471510598
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #821,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview with engineering data!, May 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Metal Fatigue in Engineering (Hardcover)

If there is a single book on *just* metal fatigue for your shelf, this is it. The treatment of material is rigorous without being too terse or long-winded. There's an enjoyable amount of real-world experience mixed in with the text: bits of highly relevant distilled information. Plus, there is data in the appendix that is difficult to find elsewhere (aluminum, etc).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Overview Sort of Text, February 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Metal Fatigue in Engineering (Hardcover)

There are a number of texts in this field. This one is by authors whose professional reputations are top notch. However, this book's strengths lie in their qualitative approach. It is a very good book for a short course, and introduction or overview, but for a graduate text I feel it falls short in that it is lacking in mathematics and too qualitative. That said, the illustrations of specific
types of fatigue are terrific. The thought process they use to think through a fatigue problem is very appropriate and a great approach to most problems. If you do forensics of fatigue
problems you want to create for yourself a catalog of failure modes photos and this shows you how to start. With great examples of a number of different types of failures.

Alternative texts for a more quantitative approach that I would
recommend, are Bannantine's and Comer's books for undergraduate
engineering students, or Norman Dowling's book for graduate students.

Still, I own the book and am glad I do. So I give it 3.5 stars.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Textbook, July 4, 2009

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This review is from: Metal Fatigue in Engineering (Hardcover)

This is an excellent textbook. It covers all of the basic aspects of metal fatigue and some topics that are left out of elementary texts; for instance, environmental effects, the fatigue of weldments and the statistical aspects of fatigue. The book begins with an excellent historical review of the subject, which contains capsule biographies of some of the most important contributors to the field. Both the stress and strain life approaches are covered, as are, crack nucleation and growth, the fatigue in notches, and variable amplitude loading. While the book is not primarily a source for fatigue data, it does contain some specific data. This book is not as detailed or comprehensive as Suresh's Fatigue of Materials, but it is, in my opinion, a much better choice as a textbook for use in a course (advanced undergraduate or graduate) on metal fatigue or as part of a course on the mechanical properties of materials. In fact, in my opinion it is currently the best choice as a textbook on the subject of fatigue.