Mechanics of Creep Brittle Materials 2 No. 2 : Proceedings, 2-4 Sept. 1991, Leicester, U. K.

1. Crack Propagation in Creeping Bodies.- A study of creep crack growth in engineering materials.- Transition effects in creep-brittle materials.- Crack growth stability in saline ice.- Finite element prediction of creep damage and creep crack growth.- Influence of continuum damage on stress distribution near a tip of a growing crack under creep conditions.- Dislocation movement at crack tip of single crystals of ice.- A theoretical study on the effect of residual stress on creep brittle crack growth.- Creep crack growth prior to stress redistribution.- Creep-fatigue crack growth in welded fusion boundaries.- 2. Continuum Mechanics-Deformation and Damage Growth.- Microscopic models and macroscopic constitutive laws for high temperature creep and creep fracture of metallic and ceramic materials.- Characteristic temperature of deformation of materials and cold brittleness of BCC metals and ceramics.- On the linking-up of microcracks in creeping polycrystals with grain boundary cavitation and sliding.- Long term creep ductility minima in 12% CrMoV steel.- Failure criteria on creep rupture of mineral salt based on micromechanical mechanisms.- Volume change and energy dissipation in rock salt during triaxial failure tests.- Non-stationary cavity nucleation-a limiting process for high-temperature strength and superplasticity in ceramics.- Superplastic phenomena in some structural oxide ceramics.- Creep of powder metallurgical chromium.- Effective properties in power-law creep.- Deformation and creep of silicon nitride-matrix composites.- Localization and development of damage under high temperature loading conditions.- Non-linear models of creep damage accumulation.- Calculation of failure probability for brittle materials.- On the applicability of the superposition principle in concrete creep.- Creep failure of weldments in thin plates.- Stress calculation the ceramic thermal barrier coatings for the cooled turbine blades.- Modelling the mechanisms and mechanics of indentation creep with application to zirconia ceramics.- Indentation creep.- The use of the soft indenter technique to investigate impression creep in ceramic crystals.- Relationship between creep and fracture of ice.