In a convenient hardcover format this extensive source of crack stress analysis has been brought up-to-date with the addition of 150 new pages of analysis and information. The book is an excellent reference, as well as a text for in-house training courses, in various industrial and academic settings.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

• Introductory Information: Crack-tip stress fields for linear-elastics bodies
• Alternate expressions for crack-tip elastic fields
• Energy rate analysis of crack extension
• Stress analysis results for common test specimen configurations: The center cracked test specimen
• The single edge notch test specimen
• Other common specimen configurations
• Two-dimensional stress solutions for various configurations with cracks: A finite crack in an infinite plane
• A periodic array of cracks in an infinite plane
• Opposing parallel semi-infinite cracks in an infinite plane
• A semi-infinite crack parallel to edges of an infinite strip
• Three-dimensional cracked configurations: An embedded circular crack in an infinite body
• A half-circular surface crack in a semi-infinite body
• Strip yield model solutions: Three-dimensional strip yielding solutions
• A circumferential crack in a cylindrical shell
• A crack in a spherical shell