Fatigue of Structures and Materials (eBook)

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.

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to Fatigue of Structures and Materials;
Part 1: Fatigue under Contstant-Amplitude Loading; 2. Fatigue as a phenomenon in the material; 3. Stress concentrations at notches; 4. Residual stress; 5. Stress intensity factors of cracks; 6. Fatigue properties of materials; 7. The fatigue strength of notched specimens; 8. Fatigue crack growth. Analysis and predictions; Part 2: Load spectra and fatigue under variable-amplitude loading; 9. Load spectra; 10. Fatigue under variable-amplitude loading; 11. Fatigue crack growth under variable-amplitude loading; Part 3: Fatigue tests and scatter12. Fatigue and scatter; 13. Fatigue tests; Part 4: Special fatigue conditions; 14. Surface treatments; 15. Fretting corrosion; 16. Corrosion fatigue; 17. High-temperature and low-temperature fatigue; Part 5: Fatigue of joints and structures; 18. Fatigue of joints; 19. Fatigue of welded joints; 20. Designing against fatigue of structures; Part 6: Fatigue Resistance of Fiber-Metal Laminates; 21 Fatigue resistance of the fiber-metal laminates. Suject index.


Contents of CD added to the book:

Introduction
I Exercises and Summaries
I.1 Exercises
I.2 Answers
I.3 Summaries of chapters
I.4 Plotting paper
II Case Histories
II.1 Introduction
II.2 Fatigue fracture of all spokes of the front wheel of a heavy motorcycle
II.3 Blade spring failures
II.4 Landing gear case
II.5 Blade failure of a small helicopter
II.6 Expansion coupling failure
II.7 The lamp-post case
II.8 The Comet case
II.9 Lug connections
III Special Topics
III.1 Designing against fatigue
III.1.1 Introduction
III.1.2 How to obtain $K_t$-values?
III.1.3 Reduction of a stress level and its effect on fatigue life
III.2 Fatigue tests, why and how?
III.2.1 Introduction
III.2.2 Fatigue tests for which purpose?
III.2.3 Fatigue tests, how to be carried out?
IV Research on Fatigue Problems in the Future
IV.1 Introduction
IV.2 Fatigue crack growth mechanisms
IV.2.1 Crack initiation fatigue life and microcrack growth
IV.2.2 Macrocrack growth
IV.3 The significance of fractographic studies
IV.4 Prediction of fatigue crack growth under VA loading
IV.5 Fracture mechanics predictions and marker loads
IV.6 Load measurements in service
IV.7 Research programs
IV.8 Epilogue
Fatigue of structures and materials in the 20th century and the
state of the art
Plotting paper