Product Description: As Directors of this NATO Workshop we welcome this opportunity to record formally our thanks to the NATO Scientific Affairs Division for making our meeting possible through generous financial support and encouragement. This meeting had two purposes: the first obvious one because we have collected key scientists from East and West together to discuss the latest developments in the design against fatigue for structures and components...read more

Product Description: Raised by a single mother, and later by my step-dad, I was always the "quiet" one out of the group. I was born in Baltimore, MD and raised between there, VA and NY. Later, while attending Norfolk State University, I would come to realize that poetry would be my passion...read more

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Product Description: This volume of conference proceedings covers topics such as: the mechanics and materials approach to fatigue problems in engineering; materials aspects of fatigue; threshold stress range for short crack growth; and fatigue strength assessment of ALSi7Mg castings.

Product Description: Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil addresses one of the fundamental questions regarding any literary pursuit: How shall we read? Basing his methodology on the philosophy of Martin Buber, R. A. Smith advances the notion that poets who allude to their predecessors "embrace" the text of their models...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book contains 16 papers dealing with the failure of structures and components subjected to cyclic loading, ranging from detailed theoretical analyses of particular topics to very broad surveys of particular applications. The different approaches taken by scientists from the East and the West are apparent...read more

Product Description: Book by Smith, Richard, Wexler, Philip

Product Description: Book by Smith, Richard, Wexler, Philip