Fracture and Society

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Committees

Plates

Nomenclature

Conversion Units

Section 1 - Plenary

1 Fracture

2 Fracture Problems in Nuclear Reactor Technology

3 Plastic Flow Around a Crack Under Friction and Combined Stress

4 On Crack Closure in Fatigue Crack Growth

5 Survey of Recent Work on the Effect of the Atomic Structure's Discreteness on Cleavage Crack Extension in Brittle Materials

6 Grain Size: The Fabric of (Brittle) Fracture of Polycrystals

Section 2 - Workshop

1 Stress Corrosion Crack Growth for Short Cracks with Particular Reference to the Zircaloy-2/Iodine System

2 Creep-Fatigue Interaction Failure in Type 316 Stainless Steel

3 Macroscopic Creep Crack Growth

4 Variational Bounds and Qualitative Methods in Fracture Mechanics

5 Calculation of Stress Intensity Factors for Combined Mode Bend Specimens

6 Fracture Criteria for Combined Mode Cracks

7 A Study of the Physical Nature of Fracture in Composite Materials

8 Overview of Workshop Sessions

9 Response to Questionnaire

Section 3 - Social Implications

1 Fracture and Society - An ICF4 Interview with Sir Alan Cottrell FRS

2 Political and Social Decision Making in Relation to Fracture, Failure, Risk Analysis and Safe Design

3 The Teaching of Fracture in Universities

4 Fracture and Society - Two ICF4 Panel Discussions

1) Fracture, Education and Society

2) Fracture, Politics and Society

Citation Index

Subject Index