This book is an updated, revised version of a highly successful text published in 1971 by the same authors. The fundamentals of creep deformation, rupture and component analysis of the first edition have been updated and re-organised. After reviewing developments in high temperature design over the last 20 years, substantial new material is presented on factors affecting continuum damage, fracture, fatigue and their interactions. Progress in the integration of new concepts into rational design procedures is analysed in a major new chapter with particular reference to better known codes of...