Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures: Applications of Fracture Mechanics

By Stanley Rolfe and S.T. Rolfe

The field of Fracture Mechanics has become the primary approach to controlling fracture and fatigue failures in structures of all types. This book introduces the field of fracture mechanics from an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133299538
• ISBN13: 9780133299533
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A "practicing engineer's" Fracture Mechanics!

This is an excellent book for the practicing engineer who wants to use fracture mechanics to solve fracture and fatigue problems used in industry today. The author explains fracture mechanics and fatigue in terms the practicing engineer uses on a daily basis. For example, different material properties used in fracture mechanics are compared to Hook's Law, yield strength, and tensile strength, material properites common to structural engineers.Also, the author gives precise definitions of fracture and fatigue, how it can be used during the design phase, why structures fail structurally, and how to use fracture and fatigue analysis to solve these real-life problems.

Excellent Book

Excellent for practical engenieers that face fracture mechanics problems and need to solve it very quickly. Tons of experimental data and estimations from simple-->cheaper test to get important proprieties as KIc. Very general book covers a lot of subjects as weldings, inspections routines and many others briefly.