Solid Mechanics and Its Applications

Contributors; Foreword; Technical Contributions; Application of virtual testing for obtaining fracture allowable of aerospace and aircracft materials, by B. Farahmand An equivalent block approach to crack growth, by R. Jones, S. Pitt and D. Peng Prediction of fatigue crack growth rates in Ti-6Al-4V alloy, by A. M. Korsunsky, D. Dini and M. J. Walsh Some practical implications of exponential crack growth, by L. Molent, S. Barter and R. Jones Fatigue behaviour of FS,LB and MIG welds of AA6061-T6 and AA6082-T6, by P.M.G.P. Moreira, V. Richter-Trummer and P.M.S.T. de Castro Fatigue Damage from Surface to Bulk, by C.. A. Rodopoulos Microcracking in high temperature low cycle fatigue, by S.L.Mannan and M.Valsan Invariant form of micro-/macro-cracking in fatigue, by G. C. Sih Fatigue crack growth rate of cable-stayed portion of Runyang bridge: Part I--cable crack growth due to disproportionate cable tightening/loosening and traffic loading, by G. C. Sih and X.S. Tang Fatigue crack growth rate of cable-stayed portion of Runyan bridge: Part II--steel wire crack growth due to disproportionate cable tightening/loosening and traffic loading, by G. C. Sih and X.S. Tang Fatigue of small-scale metal materials:from micro-to macro-scale, by G. P. Zhang and Z. G. Wang Assessment of fatigue damage in heterogeneous materials by application of a novel compliance technique, by H. Mughrabi and H. W. Hoppel Fatigue crack growth of aircraft aluminum alloys, by Sp. G. Pantelakis and Al Th Kermanidis