Fatigue of Materials and Structures: Application to Design and Damage

The design of mechanical structures with predictable and improved 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 researchers in the field, this book, along with the complementary books Fatigue of Materials and Structures: Fundamentals and Application to Damage and Design (both also edited by Claude Bathias and Andre 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.

This book deals with multiaxial fatigue, thermomechanical fatigue, fretting-fatigue, influence of defects on fatigue life, cumulative damage and damage tolerance, and will be an important and much used reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerous areas of materials science and engineering, mechanical, nuclear and aerospace engineering.

Content:
Chapter 1 Multiaxial Fatigue (pages 1–46): Marc Bletry and Georges Cailletaud
Chapter 2 Cumulative Damage (pages 47–110): Jean?Louis Chaboche
Chapter 3 Damage Tolerance Design (pages 111–150): Raphael Cazes
Chapter 4 Defect Influence on the Fatigue Behavior of Metallic Materials (pages 151–193): Gilles Baudry
Chapter 5 Fretting Fatigue: Modeling and Applications (pages 195–230): Marie?Christine Baietto?Duborg and Trevor Lindley
Chapter 6 Contact Fatigue (pages 231–270): Ky Dang Van
Chapter 7 Thermal Fatigue (pages 271–338): Eric Charkaluk and Luc Remy