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

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Microstructural Aspects of the Resistance to Crack Extension of Engineering Alloys....Pages 3-26
Numerical Analysis in Fracture Mechanics....Pages 27-56
Macro- and Micromechanics of Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation under Constant and Variable Amplitude Loading....Pages 57-102
The Strength Calculation on the Basis of Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics....Pages 103-106
Time Effects and their Influences on Test Procedures for Measuring Dynamic Material Strength Values....Pages 107-136
Nonlinear and Dynamic Fracture of Cracked Structures under Electromagnetic Force....Pages 137-156
Residual Stresses....Pages 157-192
Effect of Environments on Fracture of Materials and Structures....Pages 193-211
Fracture Mechanics in Structure Design....Pages 213-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Continuum Aspects of Crack Initiation....Pages 237-249
Effect of Loading History on Crack Growth....Pages 251-262
Conditions for Hydrostatic Rupture in the Vicinity of Cracks or Notches....Pages 263-271
The Step Before the Application of Fracture Mechanics to Fatigue....Pages 273-279
Size Effects in Solid Mechanics Due to Topology Transformation during Crack Growth....Pages 281-293
Ductile Fracture Propagation Studies by a Kinematic Approach....Pages 295-305
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Examination of Brittle Fracture Criteria for Overlapping Mode I and Mode II Loading Applied to Cracks....Pages 309-316
Safe-Life Analysis of Structures Subjected to General In-Plane Loadings....Pages 317-336
Mode II Fracture Toughness Testing with Application to PMMA....Pages 337-344
The Influence of Multiaxial Stress States on Characteristic Parameters for Cleavage Fracture in the Elastic-Plastic Range....Pages 345-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Comparison of J-Integral Estimating Methods and Techniques....Pages 359-367
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
The Strain Hardening of Structural Steels with Different Yield Strengths and its Influence on the Materials Properties during Plastic Deformation....Pages 369-376
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....Pages 377-391
On the Influence of Specimen Orientation on the Ductile Fracture Behaviour of the Steel FeE 350....Pages 393-400
Failure Assessment Diagrams and J Estimates: Validation for an Austenitic Steel....Pages 401-413
Perspective on J-T Plots....Pages 415-427
Recategorisation of Embedded Defects as a Single Embedded or Surface Defect....Pages 429-440
Front Matter....Pages 441-441
Towards the Development of a Dynamic Fracture Initiation Test....Pages 443-454
Dynamic Analysis of Impact Test Specimens....Pages 455-465
Failure Behaviour of an Aluminium Plate Under Impact Loading....Pages 467-483
An Application of Fracture Mechanics to Presplitting Blasting....Pages 485-491
The Development of a Crack Arrest Test Specimen with Reduced Dynamic Effects....Pages 493-507
Front Matter....Pages 509-509
Theoretical Scatter in Brittle Fracture Toughness Results Described by the Weibull Distribution....Pages 511-518
On the Tension of a Cylindrical Bar Having an Infinite Row of Circumferential Cracks....Pages 519-523
On the Relationship between the Geometry of Deformed Crack Tip and Crack Parameters....Pages 525-545
Study on the Methods and Possibilities of Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Based on Data for the Steel Containment of a Nuclear Power Plant....Pages 547-558
Assessment of the Reliability of the Steel Containment of a PWR by Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics: Distributions of Material Properties and Defect Dimensions....Pages 559-570
Description of the Plane Crack in Terms of Local Fields versus Path-Independent Integrals....Pages 571-579
Front Matter....Pages 581-581
Optimization of Finite-Element-Algorithms for Problems of Fracture Mechanics....Pages 583-594
Comparative Study on Three-Dimensional Crack Tip Modeling Methodology....Pages 595-606
Hybrid Crack Tip Elements for Three Dimensional Fracture Problems....Pages 607-617
Front Matter....Pages 581-581
Fracture Prediction in Elastic-Plastic Problems Using Finite Element Method....Pages 619-632
Elastic Plastic Finite Element Analysis of a Pipe Containing a Through Wall Circumferential Crack under Bending Loading....Pages 633-644
Three-Dimensional Fracture Analysis by Quadratic Isoparametric Finite Elements....Pages 645-656
On the Numerical Evaluation of J in Three Dimensions....Pages 657-671
Numerical Simulation of Post-Yield Fracture Experiments....Pages 673-684
New Formulations in Numerical Fracture Mechanics....Pages 685-695
Front Matter....Pages 697-697
Patterns of U and V Displacements Around Cracks in Aluminum by Moire Interferometry....Pages 699-708
Stress Intensity Factor Distributions by Optical Methods....Pages 709-723
Convergence — Aspects of K-Determination Procedures....Pages 725-737
Detection of Defects in an Austenitic Strain-Hardened Steel Using Acoustic Emission Analysis....Pages 739-745
Front Matter....Pages 747-747
Fatigue Life Assessment in Welded Rectangular Hollow Sections Using Fracture Mechanics....Pages 749-761
A Local Inelastic Strain-Stress Analysis of Fatigue Crack Growth....Pages 763-776
A Contribution to the Evaluation of Sequence Effects under Variable Amplitude Loading by Applying Defined Predeformations....Pages 777-785
Variable Amplitude Fatigue Damage Analyses: Postulate and Critical Experiments....Pages 787-810
Spectrum Loading Effects on Crack Growth in Major Components of Commercial Transport Aircraft....Pages 811-828
Ferrite Selection Ratio of Fatigue Crack Path in Dual Phase Steel....Pages 829-836
The Behaviour of Fatigue Cracks in Shot-Peened Components....Pages 837-853
Stress Intensity Factors for Surface Cracks under Thermal Fatigue Conditions....Pages 855-865
An Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics Approach to Notch Sensitivity in Low-Cycle Fatigue....Pages 867-873
Front Matter....Pages 875-875
Moisture and Temperature Effects on the Transient Stresses Around Crack-Like Defects....Pages 877-887
Front Matter....Pages 875-875
Effects of Residual Stresses on the Fatigue of Aluminum Alloy 7017 in Moist Air....Pages 889-898
The Improvement of Fatigue Strength of Steel by Thermomechanical Surface Treatment....Pages 899-906
Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior in Gaseous Oxygen of A U-7.5 Nb-2.5 Zr Alloy....Pages 907-917
Effect of Corrosive Environment on the Fatigue Life of Cyclic Loaded Specimen and Structures....Pages 919-929
Micromechanism of Environmental Fatigue Crack Growth in A533B Steel....Pages 931-937
The Effect of Temperature, Orientation and Constraint on the Toughness of A533B Class I Steel....Pages 939-950
Front Matter....Pages 951-951
Surface Cracks in Welds of 7020 T6 Aluminium Alloy....Pages 953-969
The Comparative Analysis of Crack Propagation in the Gear Tooth....Pages 971-982
Fracture Resistance of Fatigue Cracked Welded Details....Pages 983-992
Leak Areas in Cracked Pipes....Pages 993-998
Influence of Cracks on Structural Design Criteria....Pages 999-1011
Creep Crack Growth on Actual and Simulated Heat Affected Zones of CrMoV Steampipe Welds....Pages 1013-1024
Effects of Residual Stress on Fatigue Crack Propagation Properties of Rail Steels....Pages 1025-1039
Front Matter....Pages 1041-1041
Role of Cracks during the Annealing of Residually Stressed Brittle Structural Ceramics....Pages 1043-1057
Crack Resistance Curves of an Alumina Material at Elevated Temperatures....Pages 1059-1065
Fracture of Ice under Compression with Constant Speed....Pages 1067-1084
On Penny-Shaped Crack at an Ice-Substrate Interface....Pages 1085-1094
A Simple Method for the Experimental K-Value Evaluation of the Cracked Body Using Brittle Fracture Characteristic of Epoxy Resin....Pages 1095-1108
Back Matter....Pages 1109-1117