Excerpt from The Fatigue of Metals: With Chapters on the Fatigue of Wood and of Concrete One of the purposes of the authors in writing this book is to summarize
Fatigue of Metals provides a general account of the failure of metals due to fatigue, a subject of great practical importance in the field of engineering and me
Damage in wood is principally the result of fatigue. Fatigue is the process of progressive localised irreversible change in a material, and may culminate in cra