Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; An Overview; The Elastic Stress Field Approach; Crack Tip Plasticity; The Energy Balance Approach; LEFM Testing; Basic Aspects of Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics; EPFM Testing; Failure Assessment Using EPFM; Fatigue Crack Growth; Sustained Load Fracture; Dynamic Crack Growth and Arrest; Mechanisms of Fracture in Metallic Materials; The Influence of Material Behaviour on Fracture Mechanics Properties; Index.
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of fracture mechanics, providing the basic concepts of both linear elastic and elastic-plastic regimes, and failure assessment based on elastic-plastic fracture mechanics is given a.