TY - BOOK AU - Dowling,Norman E. TI - Mechanical behavior of materials: engineering methods for deformation, fracture, and fatigue SN - 0135790468 U1 - 620.11292 20 PY - 1993///] CY - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall KW - Materials KW - Testing N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 752-761) and index; Structure and deformation in materials -- a survey of engineering materials -- stress-strain equations and models -- mechanical testing - tension test and other basic tests -- review of complex and principal states of stress and strain -- yielding and fracture under combined stresses -- fracture of cracked members -- fatigue of minerals - introduction and stress-based approach -- stress-based approach to fatigue - notched members -- fatigue crack growth -- plastic deformation behavior and models for materials -- strain-based approach to fatigue -- time-dependent behavior - creep and damping. Appendices: units and conversion factors -- frequently used symbols N2 - Covers stress-strain equations, mechanical testing, yielding and fracture under stress, fracture of cracked members, and fatigue of materials ER -