Elements of Fracture Mechanics

by Prashant Kumar

Fracture Mechanics is an essential tool to evaluate whether a component is likely to fail or not. This book has been written in a simple and step-wise manner to help readers familiarize with the basic and advanced topics. Elements of Fracture Mechanics comprehensively stress intensity factor - energy release rate - J-Integral - experimental techniques - fatigue failure - environment-assisted fracture - FEA of cracks - mixed mode fracture and - non-destructive test methods. Additionally it has over 185 illustrations to further reinforce and simplify the learning process. With this coverage, the book will be useful to professionals and students of engineering.

292 pages, Paperback

Published March 19, 2009

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