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Second Edition

Thomas H. Courtney

This outstanding text offers a comprehensive treatment of the principles of the mechanical behavior of materials. Appropriate for senior and graduate courses, it is distinguished by its focus on the relationship between macroscopic properties, material microstructure, and fundamental concepts of bonding and crystal structure. The current, second edition retains the original edition’s extensive coverage of nonmetallics while increasing coverage of ceramics, composites, and polymers that have emerged as structural materials in their own right and are now competitive with metals in many applications. It contains new case studies, includes solved example problems, and incorporates real-life examples.

Because of the book’s extraordinary breadth and depth, adequate coverage of all of the material requires two full semesters of a typical three-credit course. Since most curricula do not have the luxury of allocating this amount of time to mechanical behavior of materials, the text has been designed so that material can be culled or deleted with ease. Instructors can select topics they wish to emphasize and are able to proceed at any level they consider appropriate.

$84.95 list, 733 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-425-6

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-425-3

© 2000

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Mechanical Behavior

Introduction / Elastic Deformation / Permanent Deformation / Fracture / Summary

2. Elastic Behavior

Introduction / Range of Elastic Moduli / Additional Elastic Properties / Basis for Linear Elasticity / Anisotropic Linear Elasticity / Rubber Elasticity / Polymer Elasticity and Viscoelasticity / Mechanical Damping / Summary

3. Dislocations

Introduction / The Yield Strength of a Perfect Crystal / The Edge Dislocation / Screw and Mixed Dislocations / Twinning / Properties of Dislocations / Dislocation Geometry and Crystal Structure / Intersection of Moving Dislocations / Dislocation Density and Macroscopic Strain / Summary

4. Plastic Deformation in Single and Polycrystalline Materials

Introduction / Initiation of Plastic Flow in Single Crystals / Stress-Strain Behavior of Single Crystals / Plastic Flow in Polycrystals / Plastic-Flow Behavior and Material Class / Geometrically Necessary Dislocations / Summary

5. Strengthening of Crystalline Materials

Introduction / General Description of Strengthening / Work Hardening / Boundary Strengthening / Solid-Solution Strengthening / Particle Hardening / Strain-Gradient Hardening / Deformation of Two-Phase Aggregates / Strength, Microstructure, and Processing: Case Studies / Summary

6. Composite Materials

Introduction / Basic Principles of Reinforcement / Particle Reinforcement / Reinforcement with Aligned Continuous Fibers / Reinforcement with Discontinuous Fibers / Fiber Orientation Effects / Statistical Failure of Composites / Strain-Rate Effects / Microscopic Effects / Reinforcement of Brittle Materials / Modern Composite Materials / Summary

7. High-Temperature Deformation of Crystalline Materials

Introduction / Phenomenological Description of Creep / Creep Mechanisms / Deformation Mechanism Maps / Materials Aspects of Creep Design / Engineering Estimates of Creep Behavior / Superplasticity / Hot Working of Metals / Summary

8. Deformation of Noncrystalline Materials

Introduction / Crystalline versus Noncrystalline Structures / Viscosity / The Deformation Behavior of Inorganic Glasses / Deformation of Metallic Glasses / Deformation of Polymeric Materials / Summary

9. Fracture Mechanics

Introduction / The Theoretical Strength of a Solid / Crack-Initiated Fracture / Fracture Mechanics / Fracture Toughness and Material Class / The Charpy Impact Test / Fracture of Brittle Nonmetallics / Summary

10. Toughening Mechanisms and the Physics of Fracture

Introduction / Toughening in Metals / Toughening in Ceramics / Toughening in Composites / Toughening in Polymers / Types of Low-Temperature Tensile Fracture / The Relation among Bonding, Crystal Structure, and Fracture / Mode II Brittle Fracture / Mode III Brittle Fracture / Ductile Fracture / Summary

11. High-Temperature Fracture

Introduction / High-Temperature Fracture Modes / High-Temperature Fracture-Mechanism Maps / Intergranular Creep Fracture / Design and Materials Considerations / Failure in Superplastic Materials / Summary

12. Fatigue of Engineering Materials

Introduction / Characteristics of Fatigue Fracture / Evaluation of Fatigue Resistance / Fatigue-Crack Growth Rates / Design against Failure / Cyclic Stress-Strain Behavior / Creep-Fatigue Interactions / Polymeric Fatigue / Fatigue of Composites / Summary

13. Embrittlement

Introduction / Metal Embrittlement / Stress-Corrosion Cracking / Hydrogen Embrittlement / Impurity-Atom Embrittlement / Radiation Damage / Embrittlement of Inorganic Glasses and Ceramics / Polymer Embrittlement / Summary

14. Cellular Solids

Introduction / The Geometries and Densities of Cellular Solids / Compressive Behavior of Cellular Solids / Energy Absorption in Cellular Solids / Sandwich Panels / Summary