Theory of Flow and Fracture of Solids (Volume One) by A. Nadai is a classic and highly influential treatise in the field of engineering mechanics and plasticity. As an expansion of the author's earlier work on plastic deformation, this volume provides a rigorous mathematical and physical exploration of how solids yield, flow, and eventually fracture under various loading conditions. Key topics …
The Behaviour of Short Fatigue Cracks (EGF Publication No. 1) is a specialized collection of research papers focused on the critical and often anomalous growth patterns of small-scale fatigue cracks in engineering materials. This volume addresses a significant gap in traditional fracture mechanics: the tendency of "short" cracks—typically less than one millimeter in length—to propagate at r…
Presents the formulation and application of the Boundary Element Method (BEM), a prominent numerical technique, for analyzing complex material phenomena, specifically creep and fracture. BEM is a numerical method used to solve boundary value problems in science and engineering. The main focus of this book is on the computational mechanics analysis of materials, including the formulation for the…