Probabilistic and Environmental Aspects of Fracture and Fatigue

Probabilistic and Environmental Aspects of Fracture and Fatigue
Author: Sharif Rahman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:
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Contains 24 papers from an August 1999 conference, organized in two sections on probabilistic fatigue, fracture, and reliability, and environmental fractures and fatigue life. Papers present novel analytical and experimental methods related to fatigue, fracture mechanics, and environmental factors f

Probabilistic Aspects of Life Prediction

Probabilistic Aspects of Life Prediction
Author: W. Steven Johnson
Publisher: ASTM International
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780803134782
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As fatigue and fracture mechanics approaches are used more often for determining the useful life and/or inspection intervals for complex structures, realization sets-in that all factors are not well known or characterized. Indeed, inherent scatter exists in initial material quality and in material performance. Furthermore, projections of component usage in determination of applied stresses are inexact at best and are subject to much discrepancy between projected and actual usage. Even the models for predicting life contain inherent sources of error based on assumptions and/or empirically fitted parameters. All of these factors need to be accounted for to determine a distribution of potential lives based on combination of the aforementioned variables, as well as other factors. The purpose of this symposium was to create a forum for assessment of the state-of-the-art in incorporating these uncertainties and inherent scatter into systematic probabilistic methods for conducting life assessment.

Fatigue of Materials and Structures

Fatigue of Materials and Structures
Author: Claude Bathias
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118616898
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The design of mechanical structures with improved and predictable durability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of fatigue damage and more specifically the relationships between the microstructure of materials and their fatigue properties. Written by leading experts in the field, this book (which is complementary to Fatigue of Materials and Structures: Application to Damage and Design, also edited by Claude Bathias and André Pineau), provides an authoritative, comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, polymers and composites. Each chapter is devoted to one of the major classes of materials or to different types of fatigue damage, thereby providing overall coverage of the field. The book deals with crack initiation, crack growth, low-cycle fatigue, gigacycle fatigue, shorts cracks, fatigue micromechanisms and the local approach to fatigue damage, corrosion fatigue, environmental effects and variable amplitude loadings, and will be an important and much used reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerous areas of mechanical, structural, civil, design, nuclear, and aerospace engineering as well as materials science.

Probabilistic Methods in Fatigue and Fracture

Probabilistic Methods in Fatigue and Fracture
Author: A. B. O. Soboyejo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:
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The present book presents an in-depth report on probabilistic methods used to study fatigue and fracture of engineering materials. It is divided into three sections: fatigue; reliability modeling; and statistical methods. The book will serve as a useful new reference on probabilistic methods in fatigue and fracture. It should be of interest to researchers and engineers in industry and academia.

Security and Reliability of Damaged Structures and Defective Materials

Security and Reliability of Damaged Structures and Defective Materials
Author: Guy Pluvinage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2009-07-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9048127920
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Structures that are essential for economy and security such as energy production, transportation and supply, water supply, buildings, are susceptible to failure, because of defects already present in the material, or created at fabrication, or appearing during service. Methods of assesment of the nocivity of these defects are needed, to predict the remaining service life and the eventual emergency of stopping service and repairing, if possible. To reach this objectives, this book presents the last methods derived from the classical linear, non-linear fracture mechanics concepts, including fatigue and notch fracture mechanics. Several examples of structures rehabilitations and repairing are given. This book gathers the presentation made during the Advanced Research Workshop held in Portoroz (Slovenia) in October 2008, under the auspices of NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. It is edited by Professor Guy Pluvinage from the University Paul Verlaine – Metz (France) and Professor Aleksandar Sedmak from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Both have a long and rich experience in analysis of theoretical and practical cases in safety and reliability of structures. Other contributors are all known as experts in the areas of fatigue, facture and reliability of structures.