A beautiful and comprehensive book on failure theory.
I read this book many times, learned, and enjoyed it.

Predicting the failure of structures under different loadings is one of the important principles of engineering. Considering the different behaviors of materials in different conditions, it is a very difficult matter. At the beginning of the book, he makes the complexity of failure very clear;

"By many measures of difficulty, the treatment of failure in solids
(materials) is comparable to that of turbulence in fluids, both being controlled by non-linear physical effects." [Richard M. Christensen]

The book is excellent and covers almost all aspects of failure.
It gives a good insight to the mechanical engineer about material failure.

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