Table of Contents

Introduction and Historical Overview.

Fatigue Design Methods.

Macro/Micro Aspects of Fatigue of Metals.

Fatigue Tests and Stress-Life (S-N) Approach.

Cyclic Deformation and the Strain-Life (-N) Approach.

Fundamentals of LEFM and Applications to Fatigue Crack Growth.

Notches and Their Effects.

Residual Stresses and Their Effects on Fatigue Resistance.

Fatigue from Variable Amplitude Loading.

Multiaxial Stresses.

Environmental Effects.

Fatigue of Weldments.

Statistical Aspects of Fatigue.

Appendix.

Indexes.

About the Author

RALPH I. STEPHENS is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Iowa in Iowa City. ALI FATEMI is Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Toledo in Ohio. ROBERT R. STEPHENS is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. The late HENRY O. FUCHS was Professor, and then Professor Emeritus, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.