DESIGN AGAINST FRACTURE AND FAILURE -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Table of Contents -- Table of Contents -- Part 1: Design and Fracture Mechanics -- Chapter 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 Causes -- Summary -- Additional information. Questions -- Chapter 2: Strength and Safety in Design -- 2.1 How Strength of a Material Is Related to Response to Fracture and Failure -- 2.2 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 Failures -- 2.7 How are Failure Theories Helpful in Predicting Failures? -- Summary -- Additional Information -- Questions and Problems -- Chapter 3: Elements of Fracture Mechanics -- 3.1 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 Behaviour -- 3.4 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, Y -- Summary -- Additional Information. Questions and Problems -- Chapter 4: The Design against Fracture: Philosophy and Practices -- 4.1 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)? -- Summary -- Questions and Problems -- Part 2: Fracture and Failure Mechanisms -- Chapter 5: Fracture Mechanisms in Metals -- 5.1 Ductile and Brittle Fracture -- 5.2 Macroscopic and Microscopic Features of Fracture Mechanisms -- 5.3 How are Microscopic Examinations Helpful in Identifying Fracture? -- 5.3.1 Intergranular Brittle Fracture Mechanism -- 5.3.2 Transgranular Fracture Mechanism -- Summary -- Additional Information -- Questions and Problems -- Chapter 6: Failure Mechanisms in Composite Materials -- 6.1 What is a Composite Material? -- 6.2 The Effective Properties of Composite Materials -- 6.3 Failure Mechanisms in Composite Structures -- 6.4 Case Study: Failure Modes and Energy Absorption of Crushing Behavior in Composite Material -- Summary, Additional Information -- Questions and Problems -- Chapter 7: Metallurgical Failures. 7.1 How Temperature Drop Results in Ductile-Brittle Transition Failure -- 7.2 How Cyclic Loading May Lead to Fatigue Failure -- 7.3 How Temperature and Time Increase May Lead to Creep Failure -- 7.4 How Corrosive Environment May Lead to Failure by Environmentally Assisted Cracking (EAC) -- 7.5 How Surface Conditions May Lead to Failure by Wear and Erosion -- Summary -- Additional Information. Questions and Problems -- Part 3: Failure Analysis and Prevention -- Chapter 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 Analysis -- 8.4 Equipment and Techniques in Failure Analysis -- 8.5 Case Studies in Failure Analysis -- Summary -- Additional Information -- Questions and Problems -- Chapter 9: Role of Electron Fractography in Failure Analysis.

9.1 How is Electron Microscopy (Fractography) Helpful in Failure Analysis? -- 9.2 The Practical Use of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) in Electron Fractography -- 9.3 Macro-and micro-fractography in the sem -- 9.4 Case Study in Failure Analysis Involving Electron Fractography -- Summary -- Questions and Problems -- Chapter 10: Design against Fatigue and Ductile Failures -- 10.1 How Can we Design Materials against Ductile Failure? -- 10.2 Designs against Fatigue Failure -- 10.3 How Fatigue Life Can Be Improved by Introducing Residual Compressive Stresses? -- 10.4 How Can we Compute Fatigue Life and Attain Fail -Dafe Design? -- Summary -- Additional Information -- Questions and Problems -- Chapter 11: Design against Failures Caused by Temperature & Environment -- 11.1 Design against Ductile-Brittle Transition (DBT) Failure -- 11.2 Design against Creep Failure -- 11.3 Design against Environmental Assisted Cracking (EAC)/Corrosion -- 11.4 Design against Wear -- Summary -- Additional Information. Questions and Problems. -- Answers to Problems.