Download or read book Fatigue Damage of Materials written by Ahmad Varvani Farahani and published by Advances in Damage Mechanics. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering materials are routinely subjected to fatigue loading in a wide variety of applications in the aeronautical, automotive, nuclear plant, petroleum and transportation industries. Contemporary fatigue crack initiation and fatigue crack propagation methodologies are discussed while problems in the area of crack closure, loading spectra and multiaxial loading are addressed from both analytical and experimental aspects.