Bibliography

Cruse TA ed, Fracture Mechanics XIXth National Symposium, ASTM 1988

Ellyin F, Fatigue Damage Crack Growth and Life Prediction, Chapman Hall 1997

Gray TGF & Spence J, Rational Welding Design, Butterworths 1982

Knott JF, Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics, Butterworths 1973

Knott J & Withey P, Fracture Mechanics Worked Examples, Inst Materials 1993

Krausz AS & Krausz K, Fracture Kinetics of Crack Growth, Kluwer 1988

Larsson LH ed, Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics, Kluwer Academic Press 1985

Meguid SA, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Elsevier 1989 - a useful extension of the preceding Notes

Rooke DP & Cartwright DJ, Compendium of Stress Intensity Factors, HMSO 1976

Solin J , Fatigue Design, MEP 1993

Stephens RI ed, STP 1250: Case Studies for Fatigue Education, ASTM 1994 - invaluable insight into practical application of fatigue/fracture techniques to a variety of components

The following are required reading before trying to apply Fracture Mechanics in practice :-

Failure Analysis and Prevention, Metals Handbook v 11, 9ed, ASM 1986

Hertzberg RW, Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials, Wiley 1989