Table of Contents

Damage mechanisms and macroscopic modelling; quantitative study of intergranual damage in an austenitic stainless steel on smooth and notched bars, M.Yoshida, et al; damage equations and influence of damage on crack-tip fields under creep conditions, J.L.Bassani and D.E.Hawk; combined effects of strain rate, temperature and loading constraints on microscopic fracture, D.R.Curran, et al ; continuum damage representation of creep-dominated non-proportional cyclic loading, D.L.McDowell, et al; high temperature creep damage under biaxial loading - experimental results, F.Trivaudey and P. Delobelle; mechanisms of fatigue and creep damage of two superalloys for turbine blades, J.M.Ronghvaux and J.Y.Guedoou; the metallurgy of component life prediction, R.H.Jeal and C.Howland; creep fatigue damage to 25 CDV 4-11 steel at 500 and 550 degrees centigrade, B.Abdouli, et al; the interaction of creep and fatigue in an aluminium silicon alloy, M.R.Myers and N.J.Hurd; some stochastic aspects of intergranular creep cavitation, S.J.Fariborz, et al; creep-fracture models and their image in micro-fractography of heat resistant steels, A.Macienjny; applications to prediction of crack initiation in structures; on the interest of fusing unified viscoplastic models in the life prediction of engine hot components, B.Dambrine and J.P.Mascarell; two- and three-dimensional calculations of anisothermal cyclic plasticity, G.Cailletaud, et al; damage and rupture of viscoplastic structures under anisothermal cyclic loadings, A.Benallal and A.Ben Cheikh; prediction of crack initiation in a typical component of the vulcain propeller, J.L.Chaboche, et al; high temperature inelastic analysis and crack initiation prediction in aircraft gas turbine engines, R.L.McKnight; global and local approaches to creep cracking; a critical review of the application of global and local approaches to creep crack initiation and growth, P.Bensussan; transient sin elevated temperature crack growth, A.Saxena and B.Gieseke; an analogue to creep crack growth under plane strain using experiment and finite element methods, Zheng-Dong Wang, et al; initiation and propagation of cracks under creep conditions, S.Bhandari and C.Faidy; global and local approaches to thermal fatigue cracking and mechanisms;(part contents)

About the Author

B. Bensussan and J. P. Mascarell are the authors of High Temperature Fracture Mechanisms and Mechanics (EGF Publication 6), published by Wiley.