Fracture Mechanics

By H.L. Ewalds

Since the first edition published in 1991, this has been one of the top-selling books in the field. The first and second editions have been used as a required text in over 100 universities worldwide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713135158
• ISBN13: 9780713135152
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Hodder Arnold
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Explain in detail, the best one

This book explains principles of fracture mechanics in detail. Therefore, it is very easy for a beginner to understand. This textbook is the best one I can find at present.

Fracture Mechanics Basic Book

This is a good book for beginners in fracture mechanics. The contents are simplified and pretty comprehensive.

Well written, balanced introduction to fracture mechanics

The 2nd edition of this book is well designed, written and illustrated and is not overly long. As a result it is very clear and easy to read and understand. The focus is on fracture mechanics fundamentals, including basic concepts, analysis, experiments and physical aspects of fracture. It would be a good text for a 1 semester course. However no exercises are given, so the instructor would need to develop these. Also notable is that the cost of this book is very reasonable in comparison to alternatives. Computational fracture mechanics and other modern topics such as cohesive zone modeling, crack tearing using critical CTOA, interface fracture and so on are not discussed.

Excellent, easy to read!

This is an excellent text suitable for all students in fracture mechanics. The authors are great teachers in the field.

An excellent, simple-to-understand overview of the subject

In the subject as involved and incomplete as fracture mechanics, this book is what I would call, standard work. For me, this book proved a foundation laying text while workig on my thesis about plane stress fracture toughness testing of polymer films. Authors' style is simple, clear and easily understandable --which is hard to find in the books dealing with fracture mechanics.