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