The Methodology of Statistical Mechanics

This volume is dedicated to the main task of mathematical geoscientists during the last forty years - to establish new frontiers and new challenges in the study and understanding of the natural world.

This book presents a collection of articles on application of fracture mechanics methods to materials science, medicine, and engineering. The book presents mathematical and computational methods underlying the fracture mechanics applications, and also developments in statistical modeling of fatigue. This book will be useful, effective, and beneficial to mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and material scientists from industry, research, and education.

This book is an attempt to provide a uni?ed methodology to derive models for fatigue life. This includes S-N, ?-N and crack propagation models. This is not a conventional book aimed at describing the fatigue fundamentals, but rather a book in which the basic models of the three main fatigue approaches, the stress-based, the strain-based and the fracture mechanics approaches, are contemplated from a novel and integrated point of view.

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have become a focus of attention in recent years. It also provides up-to-date discussions of the still very important problems that dominated the field in the past.