Stress Concentration Factors

Designers of machinery and structures can avoid the danger and expense of stress failures and achieve lighter, more efficient, less costly designs with the practical help of Stress Concentration Factors. Primarily a working tool, this important book is a collection of charts and relations to help designers improve their strength calculations, better balance their designs, and reduce the number of failures of machine parts and structural elements. It does so by providing them with stress concentration factors - made available in many instances through modern computer technology - to use directly in their design work. Design use is emphasized throughout, both in the format of the charts and in the selection of parameters and their ranges. Applications of the material extend to nearly every type of machine and structure, including nuclear equipment, deep sea vehicles, aircraft details, space applications, solid propellant rocket grains, underground tunnels, and turbines. Practical features like a quickfinder for locating often used charts and a special binding to keep it relatively flat when open, will make Stress Concentration Factors exceptionally useful to all those working on design calculations, including designers of machinery and structures, stress analysts, and materials engineers concerned with fatigue or fracture mechanics. In addition, because the parameters of its charts are dimensionless, and each chart is accompanied by a sketch of the member, it will be valuable internationally even to designers with limited knowledge of English. It will also serve as an effective text or reference for courses in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and machine and structural design.