Textbook information:
Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications
3rd Edition
T. L. Anderson
Taylor and Francis Group; CRC Press
ISBN No. 0-8493-1656-1
Additional Course References:
Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Broek
90-247-2656-5 PB
(beware of math errors)
Strength and Fracture of Engineering Solids, 2nd edition
Felbeck and Atkins
Prentice Hall
0-13-856113-3
Advanced Fracture Mechanics
Kanninen and Popelar
Oxford Science Publications
0-19-503532-1
Principles of Fracture Mechanics
Sanford
Prentice Hall
0-13-092992-1
Preliminary List of Topics
Introduction
Linear
Elastic Fracture Mechanics
Elastic
Plastic Fracture Mechanics
Applications:
Failure Analysis, Testing
Griffith 1921 The Phenomena
of Rupture and Flow in Solids
Below is a link to information on ellipses.
http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/math/ellipse.htm
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=3026&objectType=FILE
Here is a link to an Excel Add-in for creating Polar Plots:
http://www.andypope.info/charts/polarplot3.htm
Note: it works well if you grid your data evenly by 1
degree increments (0-360 degrees).
You may want to offset the angle by 270 degrees to align with
Cartesian system.
You may need to adjust the output cells so it does not overwrite
your data.
The data selected should be your r-values, and the data is
organized in theta, r1, r2, r3, ... columns.
Thanks to the AJP Excel Information website.