Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Volume 34:

Content:
 Front Matter 
• Overview 
• Table of Contents 
•Session 1. Swedlow Lecture and Keynote Addresses 1. Modeling of Three-Dimensional Effects on Fatigue Crack Closure Processes in Small-Scale Yielding 
 2. Fractographic Reassessment of the Significance of Fatigue Crack Closure 
•Session 2A. Fatigue Crack Growth Thresholds I 3. Load History Effects Resulting from Compression Precracking 
 4. Use of ACR Method to Estimate Closure and Residual Stress Free Small Crack Growth Data 
 5. Influence of Temperature and Microstructure on the Fatigue Behaviour in the Threshold Regime for a Super Duplex Stainless Steel 
•Session 2B. Fracture Fundamentals 6. Evaluation of the Effect of Crack Tip Constraint on Fatigue Crack Growth Rate in Inconel 718 
•Session 3A. Fatigue Crack Growth Thresholds II 7. The Effect of Negative Stress Ratio Load History on High Cycle Fatigue Threshold 
 8. Fatigue Crack Growth Rate and Stress-Intensity Factor Corrections for Out-of-Plane Crack Growth 
 9. Assessment for Decrease in Threshold Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) Range due to High Maximum SIF 
 10. Environmentally Influenced Fatigue in High Strength Steels 
•Session 3B. Integrity Assessment I 11. Selection of Material for Welded Steel Structures Based on Fracture Mechanics 
 12. Assessment of Plane Stress Tearing in Terms of Various Crack Driving Parameters 
 13. Evaluation of Fatigue Crack Thresholds Using Various Experimental Methods 
•Session 4A. Small Cracks I 14. Microstructural Influences on the Development and Growth of Small Fatigue Cracks in the near Threshold Regime 
 15. Size Effect of Microdamage Growth and its Relation to Macro Fatigue Life 
•Session 4B. Integrity Assessment II 16. On the Constraint-Based Failure Assessment of Surface Cracked Plates under Biaxial Loading 
 17. An Experimental Study on Surface Crack Growth under Mode-I Load 
•Session 5A. Fatigue I 18. Effect of Residual Stresses on the Fatigue Crack Propagation in Welded Joints 
 19. Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing of Ti-6Al-4V 
 20. Fatigue Endurance Diagram for Materials with Defects 
•Session 5B. Experimental Methods I 21. Construction of J-R Curves Using the Common and Concise Formats 
 22. Temperature Dependent Fracture Toughness of a Single Crystal Nickel Superalloy 
•Session 6A. Fatigue Cracks Growth in the Railroad Industry 23. Structural Reliability Analysis of Railroad Tank Cars Subjected to Fatigue and Corrosion 
 24. Simulation of Fatigue Crack Propagation in Railway Axles 
•Session 6B. Experimental Methods II 25. Evaluation of the Effect of Biaxial Loading on the To Reference Temperature Using a Cruciform Specimen Geometry 
•Session 7A. Small Cracks II 26. The Effect of Load Reduction Scheme on Crack Closure in the Near-Threshold Regime 
 27. Interpretation of Material Hardness, Stress Ratio, and Crack Size Effects on the ΔKth of Small Cracks Based on Crack Closure Measurement 
•Session 7B. Ductile-to-Brittle Transition 28. Critical Assessment of the Standard ASTM E 399 
•Session 8A. Fatigue II 29. Sensitivity of Creep Crack Initiation and Growth in Plates to Material Properties Variations 
 30. Fretting Fatigue and Stress Relaxation Behaviors of Shot-Peened Ti-6Al-4V 
•Session 8B. Additional Fracture Topics 31. Analysis of Roughness-Induced Crack-Tip Shielding in Terms of Size Ratio Effect 
 32. Characterization of Crack Length Measurement Methods for Flat Fracture with Tunneling 
•Session 9. Crack Closure 33. A New Method for Opening Load Determination from Compliance Measurements 
•Session 10. Fatigue III 34. Crack Initiation, Propagation, and Arrest in 316L Model Pipe Components under Thermal Fatigue 
 35. Effect of Periodic Overloads on Threshold Fatigue Crack Growth in Al-Alloys 
 36. Notch-Root Elastic-Plastic Strain-Stress in Particulate Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to General Loading Conditions 
 37. Influence of Crack-Surface Oxidation on Creep-Fatigue Crack Behavior of 1Cr- and 10Cr-Steels 
 Author Index 
 Subject Index