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Fracture mechanics

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• Solids -- Fracture

• SEM/TEM Fractography Handbook (final technical report; Columbus: Metals and Ceramics Information Center, 1975), by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company-Huntington Beach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in Large Plastic Flow and Fracture, With Special Emphasis on the Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure (first edition; New York et al: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1952), by P. W. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)

• SEM/TEM Fractography Handbook (final technical report; Columbus: Metals and Ceramics Information Center, 1975), by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company-Huntington Beach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Effect of Surface Condition on Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Temperature of Tungsten (NASA Technical Note D-676; 1961), by Joseph R. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Engineering and Organizational Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack (3 volumes), by Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (PDF files with commentary at buffalo.edu)

• Engineering and Organizational Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack (3 volumes), by Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (PDF files with commentary at buffalo.edu)

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1927), by Thornton Wilder, illust. by Amy Drevenstedt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1927), by Thornton Wilder, illust. by Amy Drevenstedt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hurricane Elena, Gulf Goast, August 29 - September 2, 1985 (1991), by Peter Sparks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hurricane Elena, Gulf Goast, August 29 - September 2, 1985 (1991), by Peter Sparks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications (1995), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• 11 Steps to Survival (1969 edition), by Canada Emergency Measures Organization (PDF at webpal.org)

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Fallout Shelter: Snack Bar, Basement Location, Plan D (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 1966 Architectural Awards: Buildings With Fallout Shelter (1967) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cockroach Control Manual (second edition, in English and Spanish; Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, 2006), by Barbara P. Ogg, Clyde L. Ogg, and Dennis Ferraro (PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• The Feasibility of Using Modified Atmospheres to Control Insect Pests in Museums (1993), by Michael K. Rust and Janice M. Kennedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Example Applications of the NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (Washington: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1999), by Applied Technology Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Terra 2008: The 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute/Getty Publication, c2011), ed. by Leslie Rainer, Angelyn Bass Rivera, and David Gandreau (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, Frederick A. Webster, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Lightning-Rod Man, by Herman Melville (HTML at melville.org)

• Théorie des Corps Déformables (in French; Paris: A. Hermann et fils, 1909), by E. Cosserat and F. Cosserat
  • PDF at Johns Hopkins
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research (full serial archives)

• Thermodynamic Properties of Aluminum Nitride (report of investigations 5716; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1961), by Alla D. Mah, E. G. King, W. W. Weller, and A. U. Christensen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies in Large Plastic Flow and Fracture, With Special Emphasis on the Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure (first edition; New York et al: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1952), by P. W. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Variational Principles of Plasticity (Providence: Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1949), by Herbert J. Greenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calculation of Elastic-Plastic Flow (Livermore, CA: University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1963), by Mark L. Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nonlinear Theories for Thin Shells (Cambridge, MA: Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1961), by J. Lyell Sanders
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at dtic.mil

• Skew Plates and Structures (New York: Macmillan, 1963), by L. S. D. Morley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Properties of Composite Sections for Bridges and Buildings (ca. 1963), by Bethlehem Steel Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Candela, the Shell Builder (New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Colin Faber, contrib. by O. N. Arup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonlinear Theories for Thin Shells (Cambridge, MA: Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1961), by J. Lyell Sanders
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at dtic.mil

• Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials: Trends and Opportunities (1996), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Seismic Design and Evaluation Guidelines for the Department of Energy High-Level Waste Storage Tanks and Appurtenances (1995), by K. K. Bandyopadhyay, A. Cornell, C. Constantino, R. Kennedy, C. Miller, and A. S. Veletsos (PDF at osti.gov)

• Circular Concrete Tanks Without Prestressing (Chicago: Portland Cement Association, ca. 1943), by Portland Cement Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Septage Management (Cincinnati: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 1980), by Joseph W. Rezek and Ivan A. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hanford Tanks: Environmental Impacts and Policy Choices (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bioprocessing Pipelines: Rheology and Analysis (2006), by James Freeman Steffe and Christopher R. Daubert (PDF at MSU)

• Engineering Properties of Clay Shales, Report 2: Residual Shear Strength and Classification Indexes of Clay Shales (Vicksburg, MS: Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1974), by Frank C. Townsend and Paul A. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Torsion Analysis of Rolled Steel Sections (New York: Bethlehem Steel Corp., 1963), by Conrad P. Heins and P. A. Seaburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Analysis of Stress and Deformation (sixth printing, 1991), by G. W. Housner and Thad Vreeland (PDF with commentary at Caltech)

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