The latest edition of this comprehensive publicationconcentrates on the practical applications of fracture mechanics tofracture and fatigue control in structures, emphasizing the drivingforce and the resistance force.

It also examines fitness for service, or life extension, ofexisting structures whose design life may have expired but whoseactual life can be continued.

Finally, it provides case studies for the practicingprofessional engineer or graduate engineering student, whichillustrate the effects of toughness, constraint, loading rate,failure analysis, and other factors that demonstrate theapplication of fracture mechanics to real-world structures.

Divided into five sections: • Introduction to Fracture Mechanics• Fracture Behavior • Fatigue and Environmental Behavior • Fractureand Fatigue Control • and Applications of Fracture Mechanics—CaseStudies.

This volume serves as an invaluable introduction to the field offracture mechanics for practicing engineers and seniorundergraduate or graduate engineering students.

Also available free of charge (for college university professorsonly) is an accompanying manual, Problems and Solutions forFracture and Fatigue Control in Structures.

Contact Monica Siperko at msiperko@astm.org or call610-832-9622.