Publisher's Synopsis
In a convenient hardcover format this extensive source of crack stress analysis has been brought up-to-date with the addition of 150 new pages of analysis and information. The book is an excellent reference, as well as a text for in-house training courses, in various industrial and academic settings.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- Introductory Information: Crack-tip stress fields for linear-elastics bodies
- Alternate expressions for crack-tip elastic fields
- Energy rate analysis of crack extension
- Stress analysis results for common test specimen configurations: The center cracked test specimen
- The single edge notch test specimen
- Other common specimen configurations
- Two-dimensional stress solutions for various configurations with cracks: A finite crack in an infinite plane
- A periodic array of cracks in an infinite plane
- Opposing parallel semi-infinite cracks in an infinite plane
- A semi-infinite crack parallel to edges of an infinite strip
- Three-dimensional cracked configurations: An embedded circular crack in an infinite body
- A half-circular surface crack in a semi-infinite body
- Strip yield model solutions: Three-dimensional strip yielding solutions
- A circumferential crack in a cylindrical shell
- A crack in a spherical shell
