Application of Fracture Mechanics to Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the International Conference on Application of Fracture Mechanics to ... Freiburg, F.R.G., June 20-24, 1983

by G.C. Sih (editor)

Plenary Lectures.- Microstructural aspects of the resistance to crack extension of engineering alloys.- Numerical analysis in fracture mechanics.- Macro- and micromechanics of fatigue crack initiation and propagation under constant and variable amplitude loading.- The strength calculation on the basis of nonlinear fracture mechanics.- Time effects and their influences on test procedures for measuring dynamic material strength values.- Nonlinear and dynamic fracture of cracked structures under electromagnetic force.- Residual stresses.- Effect of environments on fracture of materials and structures.- Fracture mechanics in structure design.- Section I Crack Initiation and Growth.- Continuum aspects of crack initiation.- Effect of loading history on crack growth.- Conditions for hydrostatic rupture in the vicinity of cracks or notches.- The step before the application of fracture mechanics to fatigue.- Size effects in solid mechanics due to topology transformation during crack growth.- Ductile fracture propagation studies by a kinematic approach.- Section II Mixed Mode Fracture and Multiaxial Stress State.- Examination of brittle fracture criteria for overlapping Mode I and Mode II loading applied to cracks.- Safe-life analysis of structures subjected to general in-plane loadings.- Mode II fracture toughness testing with application to PMMA.- The influence of multiaxial stress states on characteristic parameters for cleavage fracture in the elastic-plastic range.- Section III Material Characterization and Testing.- Comparison of J-integral estimating methods and techniques.- The strain hardening of structural steels with different yield strengths and its influence on the materials properties during plastic deformation.- The application of a direct approach in the study of the initiation mechanisms of cleavage fracture in a 26 Cr - 1 Mo ferritic stainless Steel.- On the influence of specimen orientation on the ductile fracture behaviour of the steel FeE 350.- Failure assessment diagrams and J validation for an austenitic steel.- Perspective on J-T plots.- Recategorisation of embedded defects as a single embedded or surface defect.- Section IV Dynamic Fracture.- Towards the development of a dynamic fracture initiation test.- Dynamic analysis of impact test specimens.- Failure behaviour of an aluminium plate under impact loading.- An application of fracture mechanics to presplitting blasting.- The development of a crack arrest test specimen with reduced dynamic effects.- Section V Analytical Analysis.- Theoretical scatter in brittle fracture toughness results described by the Weibull distribution.- On the tension of a cylindrical bar having an infinite row of circumferential cracks.- On the relationship between the geometry of deformed crack tip and crack parameters.- Study on the methods and possibilities of probabilistic fracture mechanics based on data for the steel containment of a nuclear power Plant.- Assessment of the reliability of the steel containment of a PWR by probabilistic fracture distributions of material properties and defect dimensions.- Description of the plane crack in terms of local fields versus path-independent integrals.- Section VI Finite Element and Numerical Analysis.- Optimization of finite-element-algorithms for problems of fracture mechanics.- Comparative study on three-dimensional crack tip modeling methodology.- Hybrid crack tip elements for three dimensional fracture problems.- Fracture prediction in elastic-plastic problems using finite element method.- Elastic plastic finite element analysis of a pipe containing a through wall circumferential crack under bending loading.- Three-dimensional fracture analysis by quadratic isoparametric finite elements.- On the numerical evaluation of J in three dimensions.- Numerical simulation of post-yield fracture experiments.- New formulations in numerical fracture mechanics.- Section VII Experimental Methods.- Patterns of U and V displaceme

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First published April 2, 1899