Metal Fatigue in Engineering

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:

* Enhanced coverage of micro/macro fatigue mechanisms, notch strain
analysis, fatigue crack growth at notches, residual stresses,
digital prototyping, and fatigue design of weldments

* Nonproportional loading and critical plane approaches for
multiaxial fatigue

* A new chapter on statistical aspects of fatigue