SI: Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields

Guest Editors:
• Luca Susmel (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Michael Vormwald (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

Issue 50 (October 2019)

Effect of yield stress on fatigue crack growth
Fernando Ventura Antunes, Micael Frias Borges, Pedro Prates, Ricardo Branco, Marta Oliveir

Experimental characterisation of fatigue crack growth based on the CTOD measured from crack tip displacement fields using DIC
José Manuel Vasco Olmo, F.A. Díaz, F.V. Antunes, M.N. James

Issue 49 (July 2019)

Further investigation on microstructure refinement of internal crack initiation region in VHCF regime of high-strength steels
Yukun Chang, Liang Zheng, Xiangnan Pan, Youshi Hong

Approximation of the crack-tip field in fatigue cracks in bridge steel specimens: DIC analysis of different constraint levels
Stanislav Seitl, Petr Miarka, Vladimir Ruzicka, Lucie Malikova, Alejandro Cruces, Pablo Lopez Crespo

The ab-initio aided strain gradient elasticity theory
Tomas Profant, Jaroslav Pokluda

Determination of Stress Intensity Factors and J integral based on Digital Image Correlation
Eric Breitbarth, Tobias Strohmann, Michael Besel, Stefan Reh

Verification of the ΔKeff hypothesis along the fatigue crack path in thin and thick Al specimens
Julián Andrés Ortiz González, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Giancarlo Luis Gomez Gonzáles, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro, José Luiz de França Freire

Comparison of the constraint parameters in elastic-plastic fracture mechanics
Yury Matvienko

Averaged strain energy density estimated rapidly from the nodal stresses by FEM for cracks under mixed mode loadings including the T-stress contribution
Giovanni Meneghetti, Alberto Campagnolo, Filippo Berto

Multi-parameter fracture mechanics
Lucie Malikova, Hana Simonova, Barbara Kucharczykova, Petr Miarka

Using DIC techniques to measure strain ranges inside the cyclic plastic zone ahead of a fatigue crack tip
Giancarlo luis Gómez Gonzáles, Julián Andrés Ortiz González, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, José Luiz de França Freire

On relation between J-integral and heat energy dissipation at the crack tip in stainless steel specimens
Giovanni Meneghetti, Mauro Ricotta, Giuseppe Pitarresi