Fatigue Text Recommendations 4

[Stringmaker]

Can anyone recommmend me a text which is very good on fatigue? I guess I've never really heard of any one text being referred to as the bible of fatigue. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Brian

 

[xerf]

1. S. Suresh - Fatigue of Materials

2. Ellyin - Fatigue Damage, Crack Growth and Life Prediction

3. ASM Handbook Vol.19 - Fatigue and Fracture

Fatigue of materials is a very heterogeneous and material structure dependent field. Besides some general topics, fatigue textbooks are quite subjective. Personally, I found the ASM volume very useful.

1.& 2. are common engineering textbook.


Another textbook on fatigue is
"Fatigue of structures and materials" by J. Schijve

 

[SWComposites]

Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures, Barsom and Rolfe

 

[ncodeuk]

This is a pretty good paper giving a conceptual introduction to fatigue:

http://www.e-i-s.org.uk/A Practical Introduction to Fatigue v1.pdf

I can also send you a 80 odd page fatigue theory handbook we have thats quite useful.

 

[673amol]

Hi ncodeuk

could you send me this fatigue theory handbook?.

thanks

 

[mechengdude]

try MIL-HDBK-5J Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures.

download at:

http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/

 

[prost]

There are some documents that might be useful to you that you are welcome to download the following location:

http://www.apesolutions.com/spd/public/

Aircraft_Structures_..>
Stress_Course_for_Li..>
ar-mmpds-01.pdf
NACA-TN902.pdf

The first two are notes, questions and answer key for a Boeing stress liaison course. The 3rd is a version of MIL-HDBK-5 (it won't tell you much about doing a fatigue analysis, but it is an excellent database for evaluating fatigue life of particular materials when you figure out what 'fatigue life' means!), the last is the original NACA document that describes a power law for an elastic-plastic material which is often called "Ramberg-Osgood material" (the document ar-mmpds-01.pdf sometimes has the 'n' and yield stress needed for this equation). The ar-mmpds-01.pdf document is VERY BIG, so you need a high speed connection or a lot of patience if you are using Dial-up! You are free to download and distribute to anyone else.

 

[jagad5]

For basic fatigue theory and applied info, try

1. Fundamentals of Metal Fatigue by Bannantine, Handrock & Comer
2. Fatigue Testing and Analysis by Lee, Pan, Hathway & Barkey

The first is out-of-print so try looking on bookfinder.com. The book starts with this is stress and goes through strain-life, crack growth and basic fracture mechanics. The second is relatively new from Elsevier. It also has a more diverse level of info including the first good explanation I've ever seen for how to use the double linear damage rule.

About the only basic topic missing from both books is how to create a statistically valid fatigue curve from raw test data, but I've yet to see a good textbook section or journal paper on that subject.


Doug

 

[GBor]

Great information! You may also want to take a look at the website for "Fatigue Wizard" at

http://www.fatiguewizard.com.

I couldn't seem to pull up the theory document, but there may be something worth reading.

 

[prost]

I can't take credit for the documents, just for making them accessible to the public. There certainly is a lot of 'free' fatigue, fracture, design, etc. info out there since the Internet came up to speed.

 

[GBor]

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