Fatigue, Fracture and Damage

Author: Zhang An Ge
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book primarily introduces the basic concepts, fundamental theories, and basic analytical methods involved in three courses: "Fatigue Analysis," "Fracture Mechanics," and "Damage Mechanics." It first covers fatigue diagrams and fatigue damage accumulation, then focuses on explaining concepts such as crack types, fracture toughness, stress intensity factors, crack opening displacement, and J-integral, as well as the analytical methods of fracture mechanics. Finally, it introduces concepts like damage variables, effective stress, and damage thresholds, and briefly discusses the relationship between damage mechanics and fracture mechanics. This book can be used as a reference for graduate students and senior undergraduate students in structural or mechanical engineering, as well as for researchers in related fields.