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 | | Metal Fatigue in Engineering by Ralph I. Stephens, Henry Otten Fuchs, Henry O. Fuchs ISBN-10: 9780471052647 ISBN-10: 0-471-05264-7 ISBN-13: 9780471052647 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-05264-7 Hardcover 1980-06 John Wiley & Sons Inc Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Classic, comprehensive, and up-to-date Metal Fatigue in Engineering Second Edition For twenty years, Metal Fatigue in Engineering has served as an important textbook and reference for students and practicing engineers concerned with the design, development, and failure analysis of components, structures, and vehicles subjected to repeated loading. Now this generously revised and expanded edition retains the best features of the original while bringing it up to date with the latest developments in the field. As with the First Edition, this book focuses on applied engineering design, with a view to producing products that are safe, reliable, and economical. It offers in-depth coverage of today's most common analytical methods of fatigue design and fatigue life predictions/estimations for metals. Contents are arranged logically, moving from simple to more complex fatigue loading and conditions. Throughout the book, there is a full range of helpful learning aids, including worked examples and hundreds of problems, references, and figures as well as chapter summaries and "design do's and don'ts" sections to help speed and reinforce understanding of the material. The Second Edition contains a vast amount of new information, including:
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Review for: Metal Fatigue in Engineering Stephens tries to capture as much information in this book as needed for the practicing fatigue engineer. It's a great book to have on the shelf. | ||
One of the main references for modern Fatigue Analysis Very good book. It tackles all the main aspects of modern Fatigue Analysis. The atentive reader, following the text with a paper and pencil besdies, will extract valuable ideas for procedures. I am looking forward for books written in the same style. | ||
Great overview with engineering data! If there is a single book on *just* metal fatigue for your shelf, this is it. The treatment of material is rigorous without being too terse or long-winded. There's an enjoyable amount of real-world experience mixed in with the text: bits of highly relevant distilled information. Plus, there is data in the appendix that is difficult to find elsewhere (aluminum, etc). | ||
An Overview Sort of Text There are a number of texts in this field. This one is by authors whose professional reputations are top notch. However, this book's strengths lie in their qualitative approach. It is a very good book for a short course, and introduction or overview, but for a graduate text I feel it falls short in that it is lacking in mathematics and too qualitative. That said, the illustrations of specific types of fatigue are terrific. The thought process they use to think through a fatigue problem is very appropriate and a great approach to most problems. If you do forensics of fatigue problems you want to create for yourself a catalog of failure modes photos and this shows you how to start. With great examples of a number of different types of failures. Alternative texts for a more quantitative approach that I would Still, I own the book and am glad I do. So I give it 3.5 stars. | ||
An Overview Sort of Text There are a number of texts in this field. This one is by authors whose professional reputations are top notch. However, this book's strengths lie in their qualitative approach. It is a very good book for a short course, and introduction or overview, but for a graduate text I feel it falls short in that it is lacking in mathematics and too qualitative. That said, the illustrations of specific types of fatigue are terrific. The thought process they use to think through a fatigue problem is very appropriate and a great approach to most problems. If you do forensics of fatigue problems you want to create for yourself a catalog of failure modes photos and this shows you how to start. With great examples of a number of different types of failures. Alternative texts for a more quantitative approach that I would Still, I own the book and am glad I do. So I give it 3.5 stars. | ||