Revised edition of: Metal fatigue in engineering / H.O. Fuchs, R.I. Stephens. c1980.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction and historical overview -- Fatigue design methods -- Macro/micro aspects of fatigue of metals -- Fatigue tests and the stress-life (S-N) approach -- Cyclic deformation and the strain-life ([epsilon] -N) approach -- Fundamentals of LEFM and applications to fatigue crack growth -- Notches and their effects -- Residual stresses and their effects on fatigue resistance -- Fatigue from variable amplitude loading -- Multiaxial stresses -- Environmental effects -- Fatigue of weldments -- Statistical aspects of fatigue.