Fatigue of Materials

The expression "fatigue of materials" commonly denotes the deformation and fracture of materials under the influence of fluctuating loads. The failure of materials because of load variations is clearly a topic of major practical importance to many areas of study. Written by one of the most widely quoted researchers in the field, this book is the first to provide an authoritative, comprehensive, and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, nonmetals, and composites. The author discusses the fundamental principles of cyclic deformation, crack initiation, and crack growth by fatigue, covering both micromechanistic and continuum aspects. The mechanistic and mechanics qualities of fatigue are developed in the early chapters, primarily in the context of ductile metals and alloys. These concepts are then extended to brittle solids, such as ceramics and ceramic composites, and to semi-crystalline and noncrystalline solids, such as polymers and organic composites, so that a balanced perspective of the various approaches to fatigue is developed.Suresh, Subra is the author of 'Fatigue of Materials' with ISBN 9780521437639 and ISBN 0521437636.