Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials: Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, and Composites

✍ Scribed by Joachim Rösler, Martin. Bäker, Harald. Harders (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 539
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How do engineering materials deform when bearing mechanical loads? To answer this crucial question, the book bridges the gap between continuum mechanics and materials science. The different kinds of material deformation (elasticity, plasticity, fracture, creep, fatigue) are explained in detail. The book also discusses the physical processes occurring during the deformation of all classes of engineering materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites) and shows how these materials can be strengthened to meet the design requirements. It provides the knowledge needed in selecting the appropriate engineering material for a certain design problem. The reader will thus learn how to critically employ design rules and thus to avoid failure of mechanical components.

‘Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials’ is both a valuable textbook and a useful reference for graduate students and practising engineers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
The structure of materials....Pages 1-29
Elasticity....Pages 31-62
Plasticity and failure....Pages 63-118
Notches....Pages 119-128
Fracture mechanics....Pages 129-164
Mechanical behaviour of metals....Pages 165-225
Mechanical behaviour of ceramics....Pages 227-255
Mechanical behaviour of polymers....Pages 257-293
Mechanical behaviour of fibre reinforced composites....Pages 295-331
Fatigue....Pages 333-382
Creep....Pages 383-406
Exercises....Pages 407-422
Solutions....Pages 423-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-534

✦ Subjects

Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Structural Materials; Building Materials