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Book Title: Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue (Second Edition, Third Edition released earlier this year)

Author: Norman E. Dowling

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The book starts with a general overview and introduction to the mechanics of materials, but later emphasizes deformation, fracture and fatigue of materials. The following is a list of the chapters in the second edition:

(1) Introduction- Discusses types of material failure, design and materials selection, technological challenges, and the economic importance of fracture.

(2) Structure and Deformation in Materials- Discusses bonding in solids, structure in crystalline materials, introduces elastic deformation and theorhetical strength and inelastic deformation.

(3) A Survey of Engineering Materials- Discusses different types of materials and processing techniques (metals, nonferrous metals, polymers, ceramics, glasses, composite materials) as well as materials selection for engineering components.

(4) Mechanical Testing: Tension Test and Other Basic Tests- Discusses different testing techniques (tension/compression, hardness, notch-impact, bedning, and torsion tests) as well as dicussing stress-strain properties of materials.

(5) Stress-Strain Relationships and Behavior- Discusses models for deformation behavior, elastic deformation, and properties of anisotropic materials.

(6) Review of Complex and Principal States of Stress and Strain- Discusses Plane stress, 3-D states of stress, stresses on octahedral planes, and complex states of strain.

(7) Yielding and Fracture under Combined Stresses- Discuesses the general form of failure criteria, and different types of stress fracture and yield criterion.

The remaining chapters cover material that have not really been discussed in lecture yet:

(8) Fracture of Cracked Members

(9) Fatigue of Materials: Introduction and Stress-Based Approach

(10) Stress-Based Approach to Fatigue: Notched Members

(11) Fatigue Crack Growth

(12) Plastic Deformation Behavior and Models for Materials

(13) Stress-Strain Analysis of Plastically Deforming Members

(14) Strain-Based Approach to Fatigue

(15) Time-Dependent Behavior: Creep and Damping

 

This text, on top of covering the basic principles found in an introductory solid mechanics book, covers certain aspects of mechanical behavior that are practical to engineering. Fatigue, fracture, and deformation of materials are important considerations in most engineering practices, and this book is comprehensive in those topics. There are also a variety of problems/solutions that are helpful throughout each of the chapters. Each chapter includes practical examples of actual tests and test results of materials, not just derived equations, which also helps the reader understand the concepts better. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in solid mechanics.

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