Metal failures : mechanisms, analysis, prevention

Author: McEvily, Arthur J.;Kasivitamnuay, Jirapong;McEvily, Arthur J

Date published

26 August 2013

Price

Free to members

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Metal failures : mechanisms, analysis, prevention

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McEvily, Arthur J.;Kasivitamnuay, Jirapong;McEvily, Arthur J
Date published
26 August 2013
Price

Free to members

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Author

McEvily, Arthur J.;Kasivitamnuay, Jirapong;McEvily, Arthur J

Date published

26 August 2013

Author

McEvily, Arthur J.;Kasivitamnuay, Jirapong;McEvily, Arthur J

Price

Free to members

Covering how failure occurs and methods to expose the reasons for failure.

This second edition of Metal Failures features updates of all chapters plus new coverage of:

  • Elastic behavior and plastic deformation
  • Localised necking
  • The phenomenological aspects of fatigue
  • Fatigue crack propagation
  • Alloys and coatings
  • Tensors and tensor notations

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Format:
eBook
ISBN:
9781118421161
Pages:
542
Publisher:
Wiley

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Metal Disaster mitigation, management & recovery Resilience Structural failure E-book Library

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