ECF6

A Study of Fracture and Arrest when a Fast Propagating, Brittle Crack Emanates from a Brittle Weld into Sound 3.5% Nickel Steel 1
An Equivalent Plastic Zone Correction Factor for the Determination of R-Curves 18
An Ultrasonic Method for the Determination of the J Contour-Integral 25
Application of a Global-Local Blended Type Finite Element in Thermal Fracture 37
Application of Fracture Mechanics and Local Approach to Creep Crack Initiation and Growth 48
Application of the Key Curve Method on Static and Dynamic J R-Curve Determination with CT— and SENB-Specimens 58
Calculation of Energy Release Rates for an Axissymmetric Crack Problem using the Improved Modified Crack Closure Integral Method 70
Characterization of Ductile Material Behaviour by J-R Curves 81
Cohesive Crack Tip Modelling of Plastic Fracture 96
Comparison of Different Fracture Toughness Measuring Methods for Testing of Irradiated Aluminium Alloys 104
Deformation of Cracked Bodies 115
Determination of Dynamic Crack Initiation Toughness by the Instrumented Precracked Charpy Test 123
Determination of Fracture Toughness of Stainless Steels — an Evaluation of Different J-Ic Testing Procedures 133
Dynamic Fracture Toughness in Mixed Mode of Magnesium Alloy 145
Effect of Specimen Geometry on J-Ic, J-i and the J R-Curve 159
Elastic-Plastic J-Analysis for an Inner Surface Flaw in a Pressure Vessel 171
Experimental Investigation of Creep Crack Growth for Two High Temperature Alloys 185
Experimental Study of Path Independance of the J-Integral in an HSLA Steel Tensile Panel 196
Extension of the J Integral to 3D Fracture Mechanics and Applications in Engineering 215
Flux Cored Arc Welding Procedures for High Weld Metal Toughness for Offshore Structures 230
Fracture Toughness Evaluation of a Medium Strength Al-Mg Alloy 241
A Reliability Analysis of Fatigue Crack Growth under Random Loading and Life Prediction 253
A Statistical Approach to Fatigue Crack Growth under Random Loading 264
An Assessment of Some Alternative CTOD Design Equations 278
Application of EPRI Handbook to HSST Vessel V-l and Comparison with Finite Element Analysis 293
Application of Statistical Cleavage Criteria to Fracture Control of Pressure Vessels 307
Backgrounds of Criteria for Fitness for Purpose in In-Service Gas Transmission Pipelines 321
Brittle Fracture during Fatigue Loading at - 10 degr. C of a Full-Scale Tubular X-Joint. Influence of Ageing 336
Brittle Fracture under Mixed Mode I Mode II Loading 351
Continuum Mechanical Foundation of Curved Thermal Crack Growth in Elasto-Plastic Materials 363
Contribution to Solution of Life of Pressure Vessels Subjected to Variable Internal Pressure 372
Corrosion Fatigue in Offshore; Influence of Frequency and Electrochemical Conditions 380
Corrosion Fatigue Properties of an Offshore Structural Steel in Seawater Containing Hydrogen Sulphide 396
Crack Closure Effects in Fatigue Propagation of Elliptical Cracks 408
Crack Path Stability in Tapered DCB Specimens 421
Creep Crack Growth and Crack Propagation of IN 800 H at 830 degr. C 431
Curvilinear Cracks in Planar Situations 441
Damage Tolerant Strategy in Gas Turbine Disks 466
Decision Making with Regard to the Inspection Desirability of Stub Tubes from a BWR Pressure Vessel 478
Determination of Fracture Mechanics Values by Different Specimen Types and Its Use for Safety Analysis 492
Determination of Heat Treatment Requirements of Welded Pressure Vessels by Fracture Mechanics Analysis 505
Effect of Crack Curving on Stress Intensity Factor Energy Release Rate for Three-Point Bend Specimens 516
Estimates of the J-Integral for Cracks at Regions of Stress Concentration 525
Experimental Analysis of J-Integral in the Full-Scale Pressure Vessel Test 541
Experimental and Numerical Analysis on Fatigue Crack Propagation on Three Medium-Strength Steels 556
Experimental and Theoretical Determination of Leakage Areas due to Subcritical Cracks 568
Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour in Constant-Load Amplitude and Constant Delta-K Tests on Notched Specimens 581
Fatigue Crack Growth in Hard Steels 590
Fatigue Crack Growth in Welded Girders 600
Fatigue Life Assessment in Cruciform Joints 615
Fracture Analysis of a Suspension Bridge Link Eye 628
Fracture Control in the European Space Agency 637
Fracture Safety Assessment of Explosion Containment Vessels in High and Low Strength Steels 646
High Temperature Fatigue Damage Mechanisms in Alloy 800 H 658
Influence of a Residual Surface Stress Field near the Crack Tip on Crack Propagation 668
Influence of the Structure and of the Temperature Field on the Formation and Propagation of Thermal Fatigue Cracks 686
Influencing Factors on Fatigue Crack Propagation of Mild Steels Cathodically Polarized in Seawater 695
Interaction of Brittle Fracture and Stability Loss in Bended and Compressed Bars 711
J-Astry and Back to Normalcy 722
Life Probabilities of Engineering Structures and Analysis of Test Data 737
Linear and Non-Linear Fatigue Damage and Cumulation 744
Low Cycle Fatigue and Fatigue Damage High Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue of Austenitic and Ferritic Weldments 758
Mechanism of Low Cycle Small Surface Crack Propagation 775
Modelling of Fatigue Crack Growth in 7075-T651 Aluminium Alloy Plate 787
Monotonic and Fatigue Behaviour of Rectangular Thin Walled Welded Joints used in Transport Vehicles 798
Numerical Analysis of Wide Plate Tests and Its Application for Failure Predictions using FEM 811
Prediction of Thresholds using Cyclic Properties of Material 824
Revision 3 of R6, Its Background and Validity 836
Some Results of Low Cycle Fatigue on Boiler Steel 861
Test on a Pressure Vessel with Flaws of Different Length and Comparison of the Result of Specimens 867
The Application of J Concept to Fatigue Crack Growth in Large Scale Yielding 880
The CTOD Design Curve Approach Limitations and Changes 893
The Expected Position of Fatigue Fracture Planes according to Variance of the Reduced Stress 907
The Influence of Electrochemical Parameters on the Low-Cycle Corrosion Fatigue of a Structural Steel 915
The Influence of Shot-Peening on The Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints in High-Strength Structural Steels 928
The State of the Art in Assessing Structural Integrity 940
The T-Criterion for Failure of Engineering Materials 969
Thermal Mechanical, Low Cycle Fatigue of 25 CD4 Steel 988
Fracture Toughness Testing of Ductile Materials Showing Stable Crack Growth 1002
Fracture Toughness Variation in a CrMoV Steel Rotor Forging at 120°C 1015
High Strength Steel Weldments Fusion Boundary Notch Toughness 1027
Influence of Crack Tip Shielding on Silicon Toughness Theoretical and Experimental Study 1041
Interaction of Cracks under Dynamic Loading 1051
Mechanical Parameters and Material Properties, Conditioning Arrest of an Unstable Crack 1064
Mechanism Based Statistical Requirements for Fracture Toughness Testing 1098
Micromechanics and Crack Spectra 1111
New Crack-Tip Models 1124
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Cracked Cylindrical Bars 1135
On J-Dominance of Crack-Tip Fields in Largely Yielded 3D Structures 1145
Path Dependancy of the Rice J-Integral in Weld Geometries 1160
Progress of Computational Fracture Mechanics in Finland 1172
Scatter of Fracture Toughness in the Ductile-Brittle Transition Region 1183
Stable Crack Growth Study on a Model Geometry 1196
Strain Hardening Effects on the Warm Prestressing of Ferritic Steels 1211
The Development of a Single Specimen Unloading Compliance Test System 1226
The Development of an European Group on Fracture Procedure to Measure Elastic-Plastic Fracture Parameters 1239
The Effect of Residual Strain on the Crack Initiation 1262
The Opening Displacement of a Crack in an Infinite Plate Subjected to Crack-Parallel Initial Stress 1277
The Probabilistic Modelling of Fracture Toughness 1284
The Relationship between COD and the Load-Line Displacement in CT-Specimens 1295
The Use of Hencky's Equations for Estimating Multiaxial Elastic-Plastic Notch Stresses and Strains 1304
Universal Weight Functions for Loadings and Screenings of Cracks 1328
Warm Prestressing of Blunt Notches 1336
Weight Functions for the Non-Symmetric Problem of an Inclined Crack in a Strip 1352
A Fracture Mechanics Approach for Failure Prediction of a Restored Tooth 1370-1371
A Study of the Ductile Tearing Mechanism during Single Overloads 1386-1387
Appropriate Fracture Mechanics Specimens for Testing Rocks 1402-1403
Brittle Fracture Nucleation in SA 533B-1 Steel 1414-1415
Cleavage Fracture in aEutectoid and Hypoeutectoid Steel 1426-1427
Effect of Crack Tip Plastic Zone on Kinked or Branched Crack 1442-1443
Effect of Microstructure on Fatigue in Near Threshold Region in V Nb Dual-Phase Steel 1460-1461
Effect of Prior Cold Work on Low Cycle Fatigue Behaviour of AISI Type 304 Stainless Steel 1472-1473
Effect of Static and Fatigue Pre-loading on Residual Strength and Stiffness of Plain Concrete 1484-1485
Effect of Thermomechanical Processing on the Fracture Toughness and Ductility of the Beta-Ti-Alloy Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al 1502-1503
Effects of Crack Length and Pre-Strain on Ductile Fracture 1520-1521
Effects of Dynamic segregation and environment on crack growth at elevated temperature 1534-1535
Effects of Through Thickness Inclusion Distributions on Short 1550-1551
Environmental Effects on Cyclic Crack Extension 1564-1565
Failure Analysis of Reheater Tubes involving Creep and Sulfidisation 1578-1579
Fatigue Crack Growth in Nb-H Alloys 1588-1589
Fatigue Crack Initiation and Crack Growth in Alpha-Iron 1606-1607
Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation in Al-Zn-Mg Single Crystals and its Dependence on the Ageing Treatment 1618-1619
Fatigue in Rate Dependent Alloy 1630-1631
Fatigue Life Prediction based on Microcrack Growth 1644-1645
Fatigue Oxidation Interation in a Cr-Mo Steel 1658-1659
Fracture Aspects of Concrete 1670-1671
Fracture Characterization of Composites in Mixed Mode loading 1688-1689
Fracture Energy Analysis via Acoustic emission 1700-1701
Fracture Mechanics of Glass Reinforced Plastics under Corrosive 1714-1715
Fracture of Ferritic Ductile Iron at Elevated Temperatures 1726-1727
Fracture Strength of an Adhesive Joint 1742-1743
Hydrogen Effects on Cleavage Fracture in Fully Pearlitic Eutectoid Steel 1750-1751
Hydrogen Permeation in HSLA Steels in Relation to its Stress Corrosion Cracking Behaviour 1762-1763
Impurity Effects on Sustained Load Cracking of 2 1 4 Cr-1 Mo Steel at High Temperature 1776-1777
Influence of a 3.5% NaCl Solution on the Fracture Mechanisms of Al-Zn-Mg Alloys in Fatigue and Tension 1788-1789
Influence of Chemical Purity on the Propagation of Fatigue 1800-1801
Influence of Hydrogen Presence on Fatigue Behaviour of a Vessel Steel 1814-1815
Interactions between Brittle Fracture and Twinning in Tungsten subjected to Compression Tests at 77 K 1828-1829
Mechanism of Ductile Fracture of the Low Carbon Cast Steel 1840-1841
Micro Structural Short Cracks in Fatigue 1854-1855
Micromechanisms of Brittle Fracture in 2 1 4 Cr-lMo Weld Metal 1874-1875
Micromechanisms of Fracture 1888-1889
Modelling of Cleavage Fracture in Microalloyed Steels with Mixed Ferrite-Bainitic Structure 1912-1913
Near Threshold Fatigue Crack Propagation and Crack Closure in Al-Mg-Si Alloys with Varying Manganese Concentrations 1924-1925
Nucleation of Fatigue Cracks by Inclusions 1936-1937
Numerical Methods for the Description of Ceramic Steels 1948-1949
Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Crack Propagation and Crack Arrest Phenomena by means of Finite Element 1966-1967
Numerical Treatment of Fracture Mechanics Problems 1988-1989
Physical and Mathematical Modelling of Crack Tip Blunting in C-Mn ferritic-pearlitic steels 2002-2003
Prediction of the Influence of Temperature on Fatigue of Polymers 2014-2015
Quantitative Fractography of Fatigue-Tested Inconel IN 713 LC 2032-2033
Relationship between Microstructure, Tensile Ductility and Fracture Toughness of Ti and Al-Alloys 2050-2051
Residual Life-Time Prediction in Aluminium Alloys 2064-2065
Sustained Load Crack Growth in an Aluminium-Silicon Bronze Alloy 2076-2077
The Effect of Dispersoids on Fatigue Crack Propagation in 2088-2089
The Double-Torsion Testing of Polymers A Cinematographic Investigation of Crack Growth 2098-2099
The Effect of Hydrogen on the Ductility of Aluminium-Tin 2112-2113
The Effect of Non-Metallic Inclusions on Cleavage Fracture 2122-2123
The Effect of Non-Metallic Inclusions on the Hot Ductility of Continuously Cast Low-Alloy Steel 2136-2137
The Effect of Temperature, Strain Rate and Environment on the Ductility of 304 Stainless Steel 2150-2151
The Influence of Loading Rate on the Ductile-Brittle Transition and Cleavage Fracture Stress of 2.25 Cr-lMo Steel 2160-2161
The Influence of Strength and Grain Size on the Micro- 2178-2179

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