The Fracture of Brittle Materials : Testing and Analysis.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Fracture Mechanics Background -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY BRITTLE FRACTURE RESEARCH -- DEVELOPMENT OF FRACTURE MECHANICS -- CRITICAL FRACTURE TOUGHNESS -- MIXED‐MODE LOADING -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Environmentally Enhanced Crack Growth -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- MECHANISMS OF ENVIRONMENTALLY ENHANCED CRACK GROWTH -- Region I -- Region II -- Region III -- Crack Growth Thresholds -- Molecular Mechanism for Crack Growth in Oxide Glasses -- Other Materials -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Fracture Mechanics Tests -- INTRODUCTION -- DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM SPECIMENS -- Background -- Applied Moment Loading -- Contoured DCB -- Wedge‐loaded DCB -- Introducing a Crack -- Determination of KIC -- Measurement of Crack Growth Rates -- DOUBLE TORSION TEST -- Background -- G and KI -- Precracking -- Fracture Toughness Determination -- Crack Growth Measurements -- FLEXURAL TESTS -- Background -- Flexural Testing -- Single‐edge‐notch‐bend Test -- Chevron‐notch‐bend Test -- Single‐edge‐precracked‐beam -- Surface Crack in Flexure -- Work of Fracture -- DOUBLE CLEAVAGE DRILLED COMPRESSION -- Background -- Specimen -- INDENTATION METHODS -- Background -- Indentation Fracture -- Indentation Strength -- Toughness Evaluation from Edge Chipping -- Toughness Evaluation from Nanoindentation -- MIXED‐MODE TESTS -- SUMMARY -- Double Cantilever Beam -- Double Torsion -- Bend Tests -- Double Cleavage Drilled Compression Test -- Indentation Tests -- Mixed‐mode Tests -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Strength Testing -- INTRODUCTION -- FLEXURE TESTS -- Uniaxial Flexure Tests -- Other Factors in Uniaxial Flexure Testing -- BIAXIAL FLEXURE TESTS -- Ring-on-ring -- Ball‐on‐ring.

Piston‐on‐three‐balls -- Ball‐on‐three‐balls -- Other Factors -- DIRECT TENSILE TESTS -- Uniaxial Tension -- Fibers -- OTHER LOADING CONFIGURATIONS -- Rings in Flexure -- Circumferential Tension -- COMPRESSIVE LOADING -- Diametral Compression Test -- Theta Specimen -- Compressive Strength -- BIOMATERIALS -- Flexural Strength Testing of Laminates -- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF STRENGTH DATA -- Suggested Measurement and Analysis Procedures -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- APPENDIX 5.A LAMINATE ANALYSIS EXAMPLE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Thermally Induced Fracture -- BACKGROUND -- GENERATION OF THERMAL STRESSES -- THERMAL SHOCK TESTING -- OTHER PROPOSED THERMAL SHOCK TESTS -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Modeling of Brittle Fracture -- INTRODUCTION -- MODELS BASED ON MATERIAL PROPERTIES -- LATTICE TRAPPING AND ATOMISTICS OF FRACTURE -- MODELING OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS -- A NEW APPROACH TO MODELING: APPLICATION OF FRACTAL GEOMETRY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Quantitative Fractography -- INTRODUCTION -- FRACTURE MECHANICS BACKGROUND -- FRACTURE SURFACE OBSERVATIONS -- Sources of Failure -- Propagating Cracks -- QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS -- Global Residual Stress -- Local Residual Stress -- Slow Crack Growth -- FRACTOGRAPHIC PROCEDURES -- FRACTAL GEOMETRY -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Microstructural Effects -- INTRODUCTION -- GRAIN SIZE AND ORIENTATION EFFECTS -- TOUGHENING MECHANISMS -- Crack Deflection -- Microcracking -- Phase Transformations -- Crack‐surface Tractions and Crack Bridging -- R‐curves -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Reliability and Time‐dependent Fracture -- BACKGROUND -- TECHNIQUES FOR ASSURING RELIABILITY -- Nondestructive Evaluation -- Overload Proof Test -- Strength/Initial Flaw Size Distribution -- Determining Environmental Susceptibility -- Time‐to‐failure Expressions.

Service Stresses -- Uncertainty Calculations -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks -- Subject Index -- EULA.

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