1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: 442 - 442

2. Some observations on the viability of crack tip opening angle as a characterising parameter for plane strain crack growth in ductile materials

   • E. Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 448

3. The meaning of elastic-plastic fracture criteria during slow crack growth

   • A. A. Willoughby
   • P. L. Pratt
   • C. E. Turner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 466

4. Stress and plane strain fields at the tip of a stationary tensile crack in a creeping material

   • F. A. Leckie
   • R. M. McMeeking

   OriginalPaper Pages: 467 - 476

5. Pressure necessary to open a Griffith crack to a given shape in an orthotropic solid

   • J. C. Misra
   • M. Mishra
   • S. N. Maiti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 482

6. Cracking in particulate composites due to thermalmechanical stress

   • Y. M. Ito
   • M. Rosenblatt
   • A. G. Evans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 483 - 491

7. Stability of a disc-shaped geothermal reservoir subjected to hydraulic and thermal loadings

   • M. P. Wnuk
   • T. Mura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 517

8. Fatigue growth threshold of small cracks

   • K. Tanaka
   • Y. Nakai
   • M. Yamashita

   OriginalPaper Pages: 519 - 533

9. On the study of mixed mode thermal fracture using modified J_k integrals

   • Wen-Hwa Chen
   • Kung-Tsann Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: R99 - R103

10. A new compact shear specimen

    • H. A. Richard

    OriginalPaper Pages: R105 - R107

11. A comparison of replication and clip-gauge techniques for the determination of the crack-opening-displacement

    • S. Slatcher
    • J. F. Knott

    OriginalPaper Pages: R109 - R114

12. Strain distribution and crack tip opening angle observed during ductile crack initiation and stable crack growth

    • J. C. Lautridou
    • A. Pineau

    OriginalPaper Pages: R115 - R119

13. Variability of m and C in the fatigue crack propagation law, % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGak0dh9WrFfpC0xh9vqqj-hEeeu0xXdbba9frFj0-OqFf% ea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr% 0-vqpWqaaeaabaGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqaaaOqaaiaabsgacaqGHb% Gaae4laiaabsgacaqGobGaaeypaiaaboeacaqGOaGaeyiLdqKaae4s% aiaabMcadaahaaWcbeqaaiaab2gaaaaaaa!41C2!\[{\text{da/dN = C(}}\Delta {\text{K)}}^{\text{m}} \]

    • S. Tanaka
    • M. Ichikawa
    • S. Akita

    OriginalPaper Pages: R121 - R124

14. A comparison of three-dimensional finite element solutions for the compact specimen

    • Ampere A. Tseng

    OriginalPaper Pages: R125 - R129

15. On monitoring crack growth in thick-walled cylinders under internal pressure

    • C. L. Tan
    • R. T. Fenner

    OriginalPaper Pages: R131 - R136

16. K-calibration and advantages for fatigue testing of single edge-notch tensile specimens with restrained ends

    • L. Haenny
    • J. I. Dickson

    OriginalPaper Pages: R137 - R143

17. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: R145 - R148