Thin Film Materials Stress, Defect Formation and Surface Evolution
Ben Freund and Subra Suresh
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Fatigue of Materials, 2nd edition
Subra Suresh
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Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials Processing and Thermomechanical Behavior of Graded Metals and Metal-Ceramic Composites
Subra Suresh and A. Mortensen
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Thin Film Materials Stress, Defect Formation and Surface Evolution
Ben Freund, Subra Suresh

Thin films play an important role in many technological applications including microelectronic devices, magnetic storage media and surface coatings. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the major issues and topics dealing with stress, defect formation and surface evolution in thin films. Physical phenomena are examined from the continuum down to the sub-microscopic length scales, with the connections between the structure of the material and its behavior described wherever appropriate. While the book develops a comprehensive scientific basis with which stress, deformation and failure in thin film materials can be characterized, an attempt is also made to link the scientific concepts to a broad range of practical applications through example problems, historical notes, case studies and exercises. Of particular interest to engineers, materials scientists and physicists, this book will be essential reading on senior undergraduate and graduate courses on thin films.





Fatigue of Materials, 2nd edition
Subra Suresh

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this revised and updated second edition of a highly successful book provides an authoritative, comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, nonmetals and composites.

The author discusses the principles of cyclic deformation, crack initiation and crack growth by fatigue, covering both microscopcic and continuum aspects. The book begins with discussions of cyclic deformation and fatigue crack initiation in monocrystalline and polycrystalline ductile alloys as well as in brittle and semi-noncrystalline solids. Total life and damage-tolerant approaches are then introduced in metals, nonmetals and composites along with such advanced topics as multiaxial fatigue, contact fatigue, variable amplitude fatigue, creep fatiuge, and environmentally assisted fatgue. Emphasis is placed upon scientific concepts and mechanisms, and the basic concepts are extendend to many practical cases whenever possible. The book includes an extensive bibliography and a problem set for each chapter, together with worked-out example problems and case studies.

Major additions and revisions in the second edition include: a new chapter providing a comprehensive coverage of contact fatigue, major new sections on thermomechanical fatigue of layered materials and coatings, and multiaxial fatigue, expanded coverage of fatigue in ceramics, polymers and composites, updated information and references in each chapter of the book, sixteen case studies of fatigue damage and failure, twenty-three worked-out example problems, and approximately a hundred practice problems.

The book will be an important reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in materials science and engineering, mechanical, civil, nuclear and aerospace engineering and biomechanics.





Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials: Processing and Thermomechanical Behavior of Graded Metals and Metal-Ceramic Composites
Subra Suresh and A. Mortensen

Functionally graded materials feature gradual transitions in microstructure and composition which are engineered so as to meet functional performance requirements that vary with location within a single component and to optimise the overall performance of the component. This monograph constitutes a revised, expanded, updated and integrated collection of two review articles by the authors which appeared in International Materials Reviews. An emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of processing and thermomechanical response of graded metals and metal/ceramic composites, in an attempt to maintain an adequate depth of coverage of a reasonably broad range of topics including process metallurgy, composite synthesis, the mechanics and micromechanics of composites, and fracture mechanics. The applications of fundamental principles to practical situations are also pointed out wherever appropriate.