This updated textbook is for people working on fatigue problems of engineering structures and materials associated with design, predictions, load spectra and experimental verifications.

Fatigue of structures and materials covers a wide scope of different topics. The purpose of the present book is to explain these topics, to indicate how they can be analyzed, and how this can contribute to the designing of fatigue resistant structures and to prevent structural fatigue problems in service. Chapter 1 gives a general survey of the topic with brief comments on the signi?cance of the aspects involved. This serves as a kind of a program for the following chapters. The central issues in this book are predictions of fatigue properties and designing against fatigue. These objectives cannot be realized without a physical and mechanical understanding of all relevant conditions. In Chapter 2 the book starts with basic concepts of what happens in the material of a structure under cyclic loads. It illustrates the large number of variables which can affect fatigue properties and it provides the essential background knowledge for subsequent chapters. Different subjects are presented in the following main parts: • Basic chapters on fatigue properties and predictions (Chapters 28) • Load spectra and fatigue under variable-amplitude loading (Chapters 911) • Fatigue tests and scatter (Chapters 12 and 13) • Special fatigue conditions (Chapters 1417) • Fatigue of joints and structures (Chapters 1820) • Fiber-metal laminates (Chapter 21) Each chapter presents a discussion of a speci?c subject.

Winner of the 2010 TAA Texty Textbook Excellence Award The updated version of a textbook that has proved its worth over the years Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

The Author has been working for 20 years in the Structures and Materials Laboratory of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, and for another 20 years in the Structures and Materials Laboratory of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. His experience covers a large variety of fatigue projects varying from fundamental investigations to practical problems such as fatigue of joints, service-simulation testing of full-scale structures and accidents investigations. This is reflected in the present book. The Author is well-known for a large number of publications, among others the `Four lectures on fatigue crack growth' in Engineering Fracture Mechanics. The present book covers lectures of a much wider and integrated scope.

Klappentext

This book is primarily a textbook written for people working on fatigue problems of engineering structures and materials associated with design, predictions, load spectra and experimental verifications. Many different fields of interest are involved, as the block diagram on the front cover indicates. It is of great importance that all these aspects are well recognized and understood. The author explains the various topics in a number of chapters. Understanding of the fatigue phenomena covering both crack initiation and crack growth is emphasized in view of possible influences of design variables, material selection, production technology and load spectra on the fatigue performance of a structure. Prediction methods for fatigue lives and fatigue crack growth are discussed as well as verification by experiments. Load spectra analysis and statistical aspects are also addressed.
The first edition of this book was well received and has been used extensively in various courses taught to staff members and students of universities and other technical colleges as well as in industries and at research institutes. Therefore it was considered time for a second edition. In general, the format of the first edition of the book has been maintained, but the whole text has been carefully revised.

Inhalt
Fatigue under Constant-Amplitude Loading.- to Fatigue of Structures and Materials.- Fatigue as a Phenomenon in the Material.- Stress Concentration at Notches.- Residual Stress.- Stress Intensity Factors of Cracks.- Fatigue Properties.- The Fatigue Strength of Notched Specimens.- Fatigue Crack Growth. Analysis and Predictions.- Load Spectra and Fatigue under Variable-Amplitude Loading.- Load Spectra.- Fatigue under Variable-Amplitude Loading.- Fatigue Crack Growth under Variable-Amplitude Loading.- Fatigue Tests and Scatter.- Fatigue and Scatter.- Fatigue Tests.- Special Fatigue Conditions.- Surface Treatments.- Fretting Corrosion.- Corrosion Fatigue.- High-Temperature and Low-Temperature Fatigue.- Fatigue of Joints and Structures.- Fatigue of Joints.- Fatigue of Welded Joints.- Designing against Fatigue of Structures.- Fatigue Resistance of Fiber-Metal Laminates.- Fatigue Resistance of Fiber-Metal Laminates.