Stress & fracture books

Notch effects in fatigue and fracture is characterised by the following fundamental fact: it is not the maximum...  Read More >>

Notch effects in fatigue and fracture is characterised by the following fundamental fact: it is not the maximum...  Read More >>

This book represents a continuation of the author's ""Fracture Mechanics"" (1997).  Read More >>

Written with the aim of encouraging further development of the fracture mechanics of coupled thermo-electro-elastic...  Read More >>

Contains the proceedings of Explomett 2000, International Conference on Fundamental Issues and Applications of Shock-Wave...  Read More >>

This book is an overview of ESIS Technical Committee 4's activities since the mid-1980s. A wide range of tests is...  Read More >>

A reference on the research and developments of fracture mechanics of concrete and their application to concrete...  Read More >>

The inverse problems are formulated as output error minimization problems and they are theoretically studied as...  Read More >>

The First (1960) and Second Symposium (1970) were concerned mainly with the phenomenological law of creep and creep...  Read More >>

Offers a presentation of the theoretical and practical aspects of poultry meat processing. This book covers the...  Read More >>

The tubular welded joints used in the construction of offshore structures can experience millions of variable amplitude...  Read More >>

This book presents one of the most complete compendiums of notch-tensile, tear, and fracture toughness data ever...  Read More >>

This work, in honour of James R. Rice, contains articles from his colleagues and former students that bring sophisticated...  Read More >>

In the preliminary stage of designing new structural hardware to perform a given mission in a fluctuating load environment,...  Read More >>

This book and its companion volumes contain plastics additives formulations based on information received from numerous...  Read More >>

This Symposium deals with new or recently obtained results for the measurement of stresses or kinematics quantities...  Read More >>

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This book contains the papers presented at BMC6 held in Warsaw, Poland in October 2000. The papers review the current...  Read More >>

The principal objective of this book is to relate the random distributions of defects and material strength on the...  Read More >>

This book contains 15 fully peer-reviewed Invited Papers which were presented at the 13th Biennial European Conference...  Read More >>

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This book presents an amalgam of best practice from a range of international specialists, as well as highlighting...  Read More >>

Nearly double the size of the previous edition, this handbook provides a comprehensive, easy-to-access collection...  Read More >>

In this book a new phenomenological approach to brittle medium fracture initiation under shock pulses is developped....  Read More >>