Elements Of Fracture Mechanics

Table of contents Preface Acknowledgements Background Energy Release Rate Stress Intensity Factor SIF of More Complex Cases Anelastic Deformation at the Crack Tip J-Integral Crack Tip Opening Displacement Test Methods Fatigue Failure and Environment-assisted Fracture Finite Element Analysis of Cracks in Solids Mixed Mode Crack Initiation and Growth Crack Detection through Non-Destructive Testing Index New Features Fracture Mechanics is an essential tool to evaluate whether a component is likely to fil or not. This book has been written in a simple and step-wise manner to help readers familiarise with the basic and advanced topics. Elements of Fracture Mechanics comprehensively covers: - Stress Intensity Factor - Energy Release Rate - J-Integral - Experimental techniques - Fatigue Failure - Environment assisted fracture - FEA of cracks - Mixed mode fracture - Non-desctructive 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. Prof. Prashant Kumar was till recently with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has over 3 decades of teaching and research experience. A B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, he has M.S. in Design from University of California, Berkeley, USA. He worked as a Design Engineer in Los Angeles for over 2 years. In 1976, he obtained his Ph.D in Mechanics of Solids from Brown University, USA