SI: Characterization of Crack Tip Stress Field

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)

Issue 25 (July 2013)

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