Procedures for designing against fatigue in many products and structures make reference to crack propagation, however the stochastic behavior of this phenomena is not widely covered in publications. Introducing the stochastic behavior of crack growth to the analysis and design procedure allows engineers to optimize for reliability.

Each chapter of Stochastic Crack Propagation describes a feature important to the analysis of stochastic crack propagation, starting with the essential background theory. Processes or phenomena which are of practical importance in the work of...