Comprehensive Structural Integrity 
Subtitle: 10 - Volume set
Contributors: Ian Milne (Editor); R. O. Ritchie (Editor); B. Karihaloo (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 7750
ISBN-13: 9780080437491
First sentence: The study of the fatigue of materials and structures started in the nineteenth century because of the appearance of service fractures during cyclic loading of components in some branches of developing industries.