New Book Release By EMAS Publishing on Fracture Toughness of Engineering Materials

EMAS Publishing releases a new book that provides an authoritative guide and practical handbook for advanced students, fracture mechanics practitioners and R&D specialists. The publication should provide an aid to both fracture mechanics experts and those engineers and scientists who use fracture mechanics in their daily work.

It also offers an insight for the standards that need to be developed in the area of structural integrity methodologies. The intention is also to challenge and inspire the scientific experts in the field to develop possibly competing and improved fracture mechanics solutions, because fracture mechanics is still, by and large, a maturing discipline. Overall, can be recommended as providing a valuable and up-to-date addition to the bookshelf of both specialist and practicing scientists and engineers wishing to increase their knowledge of how fracture toughness is estimated and fracture mechanics is applied in structural integrity assessments.

Content:

• Introduction
• Fracture mechanical parameters
• Testing of bend specimens
• Brittle fracture toughness
• Ductile fatigue toughness
• Loading rate effects and crack arrest
• Engineering interpretation of Charpy impact test
• Indirect fracture toughness estimation
• Structural integrity assessment procedures
• Transferability of fracture toughness to structural integrity
• assessment
• Statistical methods in fracture toughness estimation
• Examples
• The re-analysed EURO fracture toughness data set

"Fracture Toughness of Engineering Materials Estimation and Application" was written by Kim Wallin during his five year tenure as an Academy Professor funded by the Academy of Finland.
www.emas.co.uk