Various approaches to the brittle fracture problem were reviewed and evaluated in terms of their applicability for satisfying atacs need for engineering procedures to be applied to materials selection and design criteria for the prevention of fracture in the future use of high strength materials linear elastic fracture mechanics technology was selected as the most applicable approach. Title engineering methods for the design and selection of materials against fracture descriptive note final rept corporate author mitron research and development corp waltham ma personal authors regan r d rosenberg r a report date jun 1966. Therefore the question of how fracture mechanics data from tests on unidirectionally reinforced frp composites can be applied to the selection of materials or to designing engineering structures deserves attention one published example of fracture mechanics based design and life time prediction are rotor hub flexbeams 59. Introduction 1 for the majority of engineering design of materials temperature does not affect the materials behaviour 2 therefore the stiffness and the strength of the metal may be regarded as constant 3 consider a wire that is suspended in a high temp environment as shown in fig 1 in fig 1 a constant load is applied to a metal wire in a high temperature ambient. It contains new material on non metals design issues and statistical aspects the application of fracture mechanics to different types of materials is stressed deformation and fracture mechanics of engineering materials richard w hertzberg 2020 the sixth edition provides supplemental materials to enhance both the learning and teaching experiences of students and faculty a number of video