The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook

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