Engineering Sciences 247: Fracture Mechanics

Zhigang Suo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:02:45 -0500

Spring 2010, Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 pm –400 pm, Maxwell Dworkin Room G-135.

Instructor: Zhigang Suo, 617-495-3789, suo@seas.harvard.edu, Pierce Hall 309.
Office hour: Wednesdays 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
No textbook is required.
Prerequisite: Engineering Sciences 240 or equivalent. If you are unsure of your background, read the sections on Elements of Linear Elasticity and Plane Elasticity Problems.
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Tentative topics

Textbooks. Quite a few books are available in the library, such as

Textbooks recommended by students
B. Lawn, Fracture of Brittle Solids, Cambridge University Press (1993).
D. Broek, Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Boston (1986).
J.M. Barsom and S.T. Rolfe, Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures. Prentice Hall, 1999.
T.L. Anderson, Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications. CRC Press, Boston (1995).
S. Suresh, Fatigue of Materials, Cambridge University Press (1998).
M.F. Kanninen and C.H. Popelar, Advanced Fracture Mechanics, Oxford Press (1985).
K.B. Broberg, Cracks and Fracture, Academic Press. (1999)
L.B. Freund, Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (1990).

Online resources

Handbooks

W.C. Young, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1989.
R.E. Peterson, Stress Concentration Factors, John Wiley, New York, 1974. 2nd edition by W.D. Pilkey, 1997.
H. Tada, P.C. Paris and G.R. Irwin, The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook, Del Research, St. Louis, MO., 1985.

Grading

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