Multiscale fatigue crack initiation and propagation of engineering materials ; Structural integrity and microstructural worthiness : Fatigue crack growth behaviour of small and large bodies

This book elucidates the correlation of fatigue crack growth data to multiscale cracking, particularly to the understanding of micrographs influenced by mechanical disturbance and thermodynamic variables. Attention is given to the interpretation of test data by fatigue crack growth rate using two empirical parameters in consistence with the fracture control methodology currently used by industry.