Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. Introduction: Scope, Level, Limitations
2. Characteristics of the Design Approach
2.1 Comprehensiveness and Conservatism
2.2 Loads, Stress, and Stability Analyses
2.2.1 Stability Analyses
2.3 Damage and Failure Criteria
2.4 Safe-Life and Fail-Safe Designs
2.4.1 Safe-Life Design
2.4.2 Fail-Safe or Damage-Tolerant Design
2.5 Factors of Safety vs. Reliability
2.6 Minimum Weight Design
2.7 Machines Contrasted to Structures
3. Prediction of Fatigue Life
3.1 Methods of Prediction
3.1.1 Conservatism Evaluated
3.2 Treatments of Cumulative Damage
3.2.1 The Linear, or Miner, Rule
3.2.2 Nonlinear and Damage Boundary Rules
3.2.3 Confidence and Statistics
3.2.4 Applied Fracture Mechanics
3.3 Design Practice
3.4 Special Topics
3.4.1 Joints and Lugs
3.4.2 Temperature Effects and Thermal Fatigue
3.4.3 Pressure Vessels and Piping
3.4.4 Effects of Radiation
3.5 Machine Parts
3.5.1 Bearings
3.5.2 Gears
3.5.3 Springs
4. General Factors
4.1 The Mechanism of Fatigue
4.1.1 Summary
4.1.2 Discussion
4.2 Fatigue Tests and Forms of Data
4.2.1 Objectives, Types, and Evaluations
4.2.2 Design of Fatigue Tests
4.2.3 Forms of Data, Equations, and Plots
4.2.4 Detection of Flaws and of Fatigue Damage
4.3 Materials, Properties and Treatments
4.3.1 Carbon and Alloy Steels
4.3.2 Stainless Steels
4.3.3 Aluminum Alloys
4.3.4 Magnesium Alloys
4.3.5 Titanium Alloys
4.3.6 Cast Irons and Cast Steels
4.3.7 General Nonferrous Metals and Alloys
4.3.8 Plastics, Laminates, and Composites
4.3.9 Glass and Ceramics
4.4 Residual Stresses and Surface Treatments
4.4.1 Residual Stresses
4.4.2 Surface Treatments
References
Selected Bibliography
Conversion Factors
Index