PrefaceAbout the AuthorsTable of ContentsPart 1: Design and Fracture MechanicsChapter 1: Introduction. 1.1 Failure and Engineering Disasters?1.2 What Are the Causes of Engineering Disasters?1.3 Why Design against Failure Is Important!1.4 Some Historical Engineering Failures and their CausesSummaryAdditional information. QuestionsChapter 2: Strength and Safety in Design2.1 How Strength of a Material Is Related to Response to Fracture and Failure2.

2 What is Safe-Design? and What is its Role in Manufacturing? 2.3 What Approach Should Be Adopted in Designing a Machine Element?2.4 What Is Engineering Risk; and how Is it Assessed?2.5 What is the Importance of Safety Factor (FoS) in Design?2.6 Approach to Be Adopted for Designing against Metallurgical Failures2.7 How are Failure Theories Helpful in Predicting Failures?SummaryAdditional InformationQuestions and ProblemsChapter 3: Elements of Fracture Mechanics3.1 What are the Causes of Failures in Solids and Structures?3.2 What is the Importance of Stress Concentration Factor (s.

c.f)?3.3 How Griffith Crack Theory is Helpful in Predicting Fracture Behaviour3.4 How Can we Analyze Cracks?3.5 How Can we Distinguish among K, Kc and Kic?3.6. Generalized K Expression with Geometric Compliance Function, YSummaryAdditional Information. Questions and ProblemsChapter 4:The Design against Fracture: Philosophy and Practices4.

1 How Can we Design Materials and Systems against Growth of a Crack?4.2 How Can we Design a Thin-Walled Pressure Vessel against Fracture?4.3 How Can we Decide Whether or Not a Design Is Safe to Use?4.4 How Can we Apply Design Philosophy for Materials Selection, Design of a Component and Test Method?4.5 What is the Role of ndt in Design against Fracture?4.6 What is Damage Tolerance Design Methodology (DTDM)?SummaryQuestions and ProblemsPart 2: Fracture and Failure MechanismsChapter 5: Fracture Mechanisms in Metals5.1 Ductile and Brittle Fracture5.2 Macroscopic and Microscopic Features of Fracture Mechanisms5.

3 How are Microscopic Examinations Helpful in Identifying Fracture?5.3.1 Intergranular Brittle Fracture Mechanism5.3.2 Transgranular Fracture MechanismSummaryAdditional InformationQuestions and ProblemsChapter 6: Failure Mechanisms in Composite Materials6.1 What is a Composite Material?6.2 The Effective Properties of Composite Materials6.3 Failure Mechanisms in Composite Structures6.

4 Case Study: Failure Modes and Energy Absorption of Crushing Behavior in Composite MaterialSummary, Additional InformationQuestions and ProblemsChapter 7: Metallurgical Failures. 7.1 How Temperature Drop Results in Ductile-Brittle Transition Failure7.2 How Cyclic Loading May Lead to Fatigue Failure7.3 How Temperature and Time Increase May Lead to Creep Failure7.4 How Corrosive Environment May Lead to Failure by Environmentally Assisted Cracking (EAC)7.5 How Surface Conditions May Lead to Failure by Wear and ErosionSummaryAdditional Information. Questions and ProblemsPart 3: Failure Analysis and PreventionChapter 8: General Practices in Failure Analysis.

8.1 What is Failure Analysis? 8.2 What is Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)?8.3 Stages and Procedures in Failure Analysis8.4 Equipment and Techniques in Failure Analysis8.5 Case Studies in Failure AnalysisSummaryAdditional InformationQuestions and ProblemsChapter 9: Role of Electron Fractography in Failure Analysis9.1 How is Electron Microscopy (Fractography) Helpful in Failure Analysis?9.2 The Practical Use of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) in Electron Fractography9.

3 Macro-and micro-fractography in the sem9.4 Case Study in Failure Analysis Involving Electron FractographySummaryQuestions and ProblemsChapter 10: Design against Fatigue and Ductile Failures10.1 How Can we Design Materials against Ductile Failure?10.2 Designs against Fatigue Failure10.3 How Fatigue Life Can Be Improved by Introducing Residual Compressive Stresses?10.4 How Can we Compute Fatigue Life and Attain Fail -Dafe Design?SummaryAdditional InformationQuestions and ProblemsChapter 11: Design against Failures Caused by Temperature & Environment11.1 Design against Ductile-Brittle Transition (DBT) Failure11.2 Design against Creep Failure11.

3 Design against Environmental Assisted Cracking (EAC)/Corrosion11.4 Design against WearSummaryAdditional Information. Questions and Problems.Answers to Problems.