Fatigue of Structures and Materials

This book is exactly what I was looking for because it lays great foundation for understanding fatigue failures, both macro and microscopically. Although I am still reading it, each chapter is a revelation. After conducting numerous failure investigations, I've realized that failure initiation and understanding it in great detail is key in developing a root cause. In my opinion, this book offers greater detail than most when describing what transpires in a material that is under fatigue loading. Concepts in this book can help strengthen your knowledge on crack initiation as applicable to all failures, not just fatigue.

better than expected.

I find this book is helpful and full of information on Fatigue. Schijve has an easy to read writing style. I first learned this from his paper, "Fatigue of Structures and Materials in the 20th Century and the State of the Art." This paper is practially a introduction to many of the chapters in the book. This book is worth having to mark-up and take notes. If you are interested in the extra materials, you can download them here: extras.springer.com then enter the ISBN: 978-1-4020-6807-2

Excellent for a clear understanding the fatigue phenomenon, the growth of cracks, the influences of surface condition and metallographic structure, and how to design to minimise fatigue.

Good reference book.

I have been working for two years as structural engineer, and the knowledge of fatigue by most people was always suspicious for me. Unfortunately, I was dependant on peoples knowledge to obtain mine and, by looking for many books and papers on internet, all I found about fatigue were precise formulas with no physical explanation of the phenomena. Although I was not a fatigue specialist, I had always the conviction that this thema was much more experimental and microscophical-depandant then mathematical. This book proved to me all of that, and gave me a great insight of fatigue. Fatigue has became a very interesting topic for me since this book. The writing style of the author is also very pleasant, and we can read the book as if it was a romance. I got a job at huge aerospace company for fatigue because of this book. I hope you enjoy it.

Jaap is well know in the fatigue community and this book is a great reference for all that work with fatigue.

Great reference! This is the book we used for my Fatigue and Damage Tolerance course. I read it before the class and it gave me a good insight on fatigue. This book offers a lot of practical examples and beautifully written explanations of the Fatigue phenomena. Although it is not a fracture mechanics book, it does cover some fracture mechancis concepts as well. Must have for all Stress Engineers.

CD is missing . . .

The book is good. But there is no disc as indicated inside.

This book takes you trough the basic mechanisms of fatigue and material properties to the details of crack growth. All written and organized in a well structured format with sufficient examples, background information and formulas. For me this book is an essential guide and reference for any failure analysis. It helps in understanding the principles of fatigue and will give starting engineers some simple tools to begin their analysis.

This is the way an engineering book should be written; really clear and well explanatory of the phenomenon, without too many formulas, but more in practical words! Really recommended to engineering students as me (I am an Aerospace one).

簡単な英語で深入りしない内容で、初級学習者には最適です。非常に難しい学問なので、みんなで力を合わせて頑張ろう。