Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Mechanical Properties of Metals
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Concepts Of Stress And Strain
2.3 Stress-Strain Behavior
2.4 Anelasticity (or Viscoelasticity)
2.5 Elastic Properties of Materials
2.6 Tensile Properties
2.6.1 Yield Strength
2.6.2 Tensile Strength
2.6.3 Ductility
2.6.4 Toughness
2.6.5 Resilience
2.7 True Stress And Strain
2.8 Elastic Recovery After Plastic Deformation
2.9 Compressive, Shear, And Torsion Deformation
2.10 Hardness
2.10.1 Brinell Hardness Tests
2.10.2 Rockwell Hardness Tests
2.10.3 Knoop and Vickers Microindentation Hardness Tests
2.10.4 Correlation Between Hardness and Tensile Strength
SUMMARY
IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS
REFERENCES
QUESTIONS AND PROBLEM
Chapter 3 Micro-fracture of metals
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Ductile fracture
3.1.2 Brittle fracture
3.2 Process of fracture
3.2.1 Crack Nucleation
3.2.2 Ductile Fracture
3.2.3 Brittle fracture
SUMMARY
IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS
REFERENCES
QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS
Chapter 4 Principles of Fracture Mechanics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theoretical Cleavage Strength
4.3 Stress Concentration
4.3.1 Stress Concentrations
4.3.2 Stress Concentration Factor
4.4 Griffith Criterion of Fracture
4.5 Fracture Toughness
4.5.1 Hypotheses of LEFM
4.5.2 Crack-Tip Separation Modes
4.5.3 Stress Field in an Isotropic Material in the Vicinity of a Crack Tip
4.5.4 Details of the Crack-Tip Stress Field in Mode I
4.5.5 Plastic-Zone Size Correction
4.6 Fracture Toughness Parameters
4.6.1 Crack Extension Force G
4.6.2 Crack Tip Opening Displacement (CTOD)
4.6.3 J Integral
4.6.4 R Curve
4.6.5 Relationships among Different Fracture Toughness Parameters
4.7 Impact Fracture
4.7.1 Impact Testing Techniques
4.7.2 Ductile-to-Brittle Transition
SUMMARY
IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS
REFERENCES
QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS
Chapter 5 Fatigue of metals
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Cyclic Stresses
5.3 The S-N Curve
5.4 Crack Initiation and Propagation
5.5 Factors That Affect Fatigue Life
5.5.1 Mean Stress
5.5.2 Surface Effects
5.5.3 Design Factors
5.5.4 Surface Treatments
5.6 Environmental Effects
SUMMARY
IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS
REFERENCES
QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS
Chapter 6 Creep of metals
Chapter 7 Corrosion and Degradation of Metals
Chapter 8 Mechanical properties of ceramics
Chapter 9 Mechanical properties of Polymers
Chapter 10 Mechanical properties of Composite Materials