Broek D. Elementary engineering fracture mechanics

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 1984, 469 pages, 3rd edition, ISBN 90-247-2580-1The text is considered suitable for advanced undergraduate or first year graduate students. But it may also serve as a general introduction to this relatively new discipline for engineers and metallurgists who have not been confronted earlier with fracture mechanics. The objective of this book is to deal in particular with those areas of fracture mechanics that have found practical application. The background, assumptions and limitations are presented and the problems of engineering application are pointed out.
It is the aim of this book to show the use and application of fracture mechanics to practical problems. The numerous compromises that have to be made in practical applications have to be based on sound engineering judgement. For this reason shortcomings and limitations of the various fracture mechanics concepts are strongly emphasized, and on the other hand, approximative and simplified concepts are amply discussed.Principles
Summary of basic problems and concepts
Mechanisms of fracture and crack growth
The elastic crack-tip stress field
The crack tip plastic zone
The energy principle
Dynamics and crack arrest
Plane strain fracture toughness
Plane stress and transitional behaviour
Elastic-plastic fracture
Fatigue crack propagation
Fracture resistance of materialsApplications
Fail-safety and damage tolerance
Determination of stress intensity factors
Practical problems
Fracture of structures
Stiffened sheet structures
Prediction of fatigue crack growth