Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue

by Norman E. Dowling

Praised by readers for its usefulness, this book covers the entire area of mechanical behavior of materials from a practical engineering viewpoint, providing a single-source introductory analysis with specific coverage on materials testing, yield criteria, stress-based fatigue, fracture mechanics, crack growth, strain-based fatigue, and creep. Explains test methods and the principles behind them, and explores engineering methods for predicting strength and life, with real-date worked examples. Completely updates discussions on fracture mechanics, stress-based fatigue, and creep, and adds three new appendices; one that reviews useful topics from elementary mechanics of materials, one that considers statistical variation in materials properties, and a third that aids in locating materials property information in the tables found in various chapters. Updated end-of-chapter references lead to sources of materials data and to more detailed information. For the mechanical engineer, materials engineer, aeronautical engineer, structural engineer, design engineer, or test engineer.

Genres: Technical, Engineering

830 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Faisal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This course is an essential and core course in materials and manufacturing.
I have taken this course during my master degree in mechanical engineering at KFUPM.
To those who are interested or specialized in this field
The book contents are the following

-Structure and Deformation in Materials
-A Survey of Engineering Materials
-Mechanical Testing: Tension Test and
-Stress–Strain Relationships and Behavior
-Review of Complex and Principal States of Stress and Strain
-Yielding and Fracture under Combined Stresses
-Fracture of Cracked Members
-Fatigue of Materials: Introduction and Stress-Based Approach
-Stress-Based Approach to Fatigue: Notched Members
-Fatigue Crack Growth
-Plastic Deformation Behavior and Models for Materials
-Stress–Strain Analysis of Plastically Deforming Members
-Strain-Based Approach to Fatigue
-Time-Dependent Behavior: Creep and Damping
-Appendix A Review of Selected Topics from Mechanics of Materials
-Appendix B Statistical Variation in Materials Properties

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