Guest editors:
• Francesco Iacoviello (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)
• M. Neil James (University of Plymouth, UK)
• Pablo Lopez-Crespo (University de Malaga, Spain)
• Luca Susmel (University of Sheffield, UK)
Characterisation of crack tip fields under non-uniform fatigue loading
D. Nowell, M.E. Kartal, P.F.P. de Matos
Crack propagation mechanism and life prediction for very-highcycle fatigue of a structural steel in different environmental medias
Guian Qian, Chengen Zhou, Youshi Hong
Combining experimental and numerical analysis to estimate stress fields along the surface crack front
A.S. Chernyatin, Yu.G. Matvienko, I.A. Razumovsky
Determination of fracture mechanics parameters on a base of local displacement measurements
Yu. G. Matvienko, V.S. Pisarev, S. I. Eleonsky
Sharp contact corners, fretting and cracks
D. A. Hills, R. C. Flicek, D. Dini
Subsurface metals fatigue cracking without and with crack tip
Andrey Shanyavskiy
Near tip strain evolution under cyclic loading
J. Tong, Y.-W. Lu, B. Lin, Y. H. Tai, J.R. Yates
In situ 3D characterization of fatigue cracks displacement fields
Joel Lachambre, Jean-Yves Buffiere, Julien Réthoré, Arnaud Weck
Effect of crack propagation on crack tip fields
F.V. Antunes, A.G. Chegini, L.M. Correia, A.L. Ramalho
Recent developments in multi-parametric three-dimensional stress field representation in plates weakened by cracks and notches
P. Lazzarin, M. Zappalorto, F. Berto
Multi-parameter crack tip stress state description for estimation of fracture process zone extent in silicate composite WST specimens
Václav Veselý, Jakub Sobek, Lucie Šestáková, Petr Frantík, Stanislav Seitl
Is notch sensitivity a stress analysis problem?
Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro
Gradient enriched linear-elastic crack tip stresses to estimate the static strength of cracked engineering ceramics
Harm Askes, Luca Susmel
On a kinked crack model to describe the influence of material microstructure on fatigue crack growth
Andrea Spagnoli, Andrea Carpinteri, Sabrina Vantadori
Pearlitic ductile cast iron: damaging micromechanisms at crack tip
F. Iacoviello, V. Di Cocco, A. Rossi, M. Cavallini
Application of thermoelastic stress analysis for the experimental evaluation of the effective stress intensity factor
Francisco A. Díaz, Eann A. Patterson, John R. Yates
On numerical integration for effective stress assessment at notches
Enrico Maggiolini, Paolo Livieri, Roberto Tovo
Plastic zone evolution near a crack tip and its role in environmentally assisted cracking
Jesús Toribio, Viktor Kharin
Role of plasticity-induced crack closure in fatigue crack growth
Jesús Toribio, Viktor Kharin
Initiation and growth behavior of very-long microstructurally short fatigue cracks
P. Lorenzino, A. Navarro
High magnification crack-tip field characterisation under biaxial conditions
B. Moreno, P. Lopez-Crespo, J. Zapatero
Study of overload effects in bainitic steel by synchrotron X-ray diffraction
P. Lopez-Crespo, P.J. Withers, J. R. Yates, A. Steuwer, T. Buslaps, Y. H. Tai
Extension of the CJP model to mixed mode I and mode II
C. J. Christopher, G. Laboviciute, M. N. James, E. A. Patterson