^#smrgSAHAF Fracture Mechanics - 1988

The text is intended to be a guide in one-semester graduate courses emphasizing the macro-aspects of fracture and addressing design. It is the outgrowth of lecture notes of the "Fracture" course given at Boğaziçi Univérsity for more than a decade.

Special thanks are due to Prof. I. Finnie of University of California at Berkeley who inspired in me the joy of fracture. The early chapters which are establishing the foundations of fracture- are inevitably heavily influenced by his class notes of 1972.

Fracture is a very rapidly expanding field. Emphasis is place in this work on recent developments rather than the "by now tradit aspects of fracture. Elastic plastic fracture mechanics and variab amplitude fatigue crack propagation takes the major portion of the book.

Problems and answers to these problems are provided at the en of each chapter to promote the understanding. References are kept minimum on well developed topics and abundant on developing ones.

İstanbul, May 1988
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