Mar 01, 2007

STP 1480, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics:  35th Volume, is now available from ASTM International.  STP 1480 contains 38 peer-reviewed papers that cover the latest research on fracture mechanics, including fracture, fatigue, residual stress, creep, creep/fatigue, constraint and stress corrosion, and links them to concepts used in structural integrity assessment.

This publication does not restrict itself to metallic materials, but is applicable to polymers and composites as well as inhomogeneous materials. The papers, written by nationally and internationally recognized authors, cover the general areas of modeling, testing and validation in crack dominant related research.

Other topics cover experimental results coupled with modeling techniques of linear, non-linear, time independent and dependant behavior of cracked geometries of a range of materials. Papers relating to residual stress, crack tip constraint and probabilistic methods of analyses also highlight the importance of developing these fields for future improvements in life assessment methods.

Richard E. Link, United States Naval Academy, and Kamran M. Nikbin, Imperial College, served as the editors for this volume.

Copies of STP 1480, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics:  35th Volume (525 pages, soft cover, 6” x 9”; ISBN:  978-0-8031-3406-5; stock # STP1480) are available for $74 from ASTM Customer Service (phone: 610/832-9585; fax: 610/832-9555; https://www.astm.org/contact/) or online at www.astm.org.

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