| Title: | Fatigue of Structures and Materials |
| Authors: | Schijve, Jaap |
| Keywords: | CD-Rom Fatigue of Structures and Materials |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Abstract: | Fatigue of structures and materials covers a wide scope of different topics. The purpose of the present book is to explain these topics, to indicate how they can be analyzed, and how this can contribute to the designing of fatigue resistant structures and to prevent structural fatigue problems in service. Chapter 1 gives a general survey of the topic with brief comments on the significance of the aspects involved. This serves as a kind of a program for the following chapters. The central issues in this book are predictions of fatigue properties and designing against fatigue. These objectives cannot be realized without a physical and mechanical understanding of all relevant conditions. In Chapter 2 the book starts with basic concepts of what happens in the material of a structure under cyclic loads. It illustrates the large number of variables which can affect fatigue properties and it provides the essential background knowledge for subsequent chapters. Different subjects are presented in the following main parts: |
| Description: | For a period of 20 years I have been working in the Structures and Materials Division of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR in Amsterdam and in the North-Eastpolder, and for another 20 years in the Structures and Materials Laboratory of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology until my formal retirement. In both laboratories it was a cooperation with many people in a stimulating atmosphere. It is great to carry out investigations with colleagues and technicians who understand the essence of the fatigue experiments and microscopical examinations, too many to mention all their names. But I will make a single exception for Frans Oosterom for the indispensable assistance with microscopy and photography. It was also very stimulating to work together with many undergraduate and post-graduate students, eager to arrive at answers for unsolved questions. We shared various challenges, and at the same time a kind of a family relationship. Thanks to my successors, this continued after my retirement, first through professor Boud Vogelesang, afterwards the late professor Ad Vlot who most regretfully died young, and at the moment professor Rinze Benedictus. All three were fine colleagues always available for discussion. Informal brainstorming with many people was often the elixir of new ideas and progress |
| URI: | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/72 |
| ISBN: | 13: 978-1-4020-6808-9 |
| Appears in Collections: | ARTS & SCIENCE |
| File | Description | Size | Format | |
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| 2009_Book_FatigueOfStructuresAndMaterial.pdf | 51.58 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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