Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals

• Main Author: Milella, Pietro Paolo. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Chemistry.; Engineering design.; Materials.; Engineering Design.; Materials Science, general.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Electrochemistry.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2336-9

This textbook, suitable for students, researchers and engineers, gathers the experience of more than 20 years of teaching fracture mechanics, fatigue and corrosion to professional engineers and running experimental tests and verifications to solve practical problems in engineering applications. As s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Nature and phenomenology of fatigue
• Morphological aspects of fatigue crack formation and growth
• Factors that affect S-N fatigue curves
• Data scatter and statistical considerations
• Stress-based fatigue analysis. High cycle fatigue
• Strain-based fatigue analysis. Low cycle fatigue
• Notch effect
• Cumulative damage. Cycle counting and Life prediction. Fourier analysis. Impact fatigue. - Fracture Mechanics approach to fatigue crack propagation
• Crack tip plastic zone effect on fatigue crack propagation
• Fatigue in welded structures
• Corrosion
• Hydrogen embrittlement and sensitization cracking
• Fracture mechanics approach to stress corrosion
• Corrosion fatigue
• Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics. Compendium of Stress Intensity Factors Solutions.