Fatigue of structures and materials winner of the 2010 taa texty textbook excellence award the updated version of a textbook that has proved its worth over the years. Understanding of the fatigue phenomena covering both crack initiation and crack growth is emphasized in view of possible influences of design variables material selection production technology and load spectra on the fatigue performance of a structure prediction methods for fatigue lives and fatigue crack growth are discussed as well as verification by experiments. Xii fatigue of materials and structures to real engineering problems from microelectronics to nuclear reactors most of the authors who have contributed to the current edition have worked together over the years on numerous high profile critical problems in the nuclear aerospace and power generating industries. An important theme of the book is the understanding of what happens in the material of a structure in service if the structure is subjected to a spectrum of cyclic loads knowledge of the fatigue mechanism in the material and how it can be affected by a large variety of practical conditions is essential for dealing with fatigue problems