Background
Stephens, Ralph Ivan was born on June 3, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Ivan Earl and Mildred Lucille (Bliss) Stephens.
(Presents methods proven successful in practice. Covers de...)
Presents methods proven successful in practice. Covers design procedures, such as safe-life, fail-safe, forecasting of service reliability, monitoring, and inspection; macroscopic and microscopic aspects of fatigue behavior; principles for determining fatigue crack growth and final fracture; scatter of data and statistical methods; environmental factors; and fatigue of joints and compounds. Contains design do's and don'ts and example problems.
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Stephens, Ralph Ivan was born on June 3, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Ivan Earl and Mildred Lucille (Bliss) Stephens.
Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, 1957. Master of Science, University Illinois, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1965.
From assistant professor to professor University Iowa, Iowa City, since 1965.
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Member American Society for Testing and Materials, Society Automotive Engineers.
Married Barbara Dorathea Gromke, January 25, 1958. Children: Susan, Robert, Kristen.
