Engineering

1981 — Octavo in green color-illus DJ, xv, 629 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Series: A Wiley-Interscience publication. A humorous reference to the outdoor world furnishes whimsical and informative directions on how to escape every kind of trouble in the wild, accompanied by zany lists and facts, helpful charts and graphs, and accounts of explorers. Contents: The role of failure prevention analysis in mechanical design -- Modes of mechanical failure -- Strength and deformation of engineering metals -- State of stress -- Relationships between stress and strain -- Combined stress theories of failure and their use in design -- High-cycle fatigue -- Concepts of cumulative damage, life prediction, and fracture control -- Use of statistics in fatigue analysis -- Fatigue testing procedures and statistical interpretations of data -- Low-cycle fatigue -- Stress concentration -- Creep, stress rupture, and fatigue -- Fretting, fretting fatigue, and fretting wear -- Shock and impact -- Buckling and instability -- Wear, corrosion, and other important failure modes. Machine parts -- Materials -- Fractures.