1. On the Possibility of Discrimination of Mixed Mode Fatigue Fracture Mechanisms in Adhesive Composite Joints by Advanced Acoustic Emission Analysis

   • Yuris A. Dzenis
   • Ian Saunders

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 28

2. The Effect of a Plastically Deformed Zone Near Crack Tip on the Stress Intensity Factors

   • Zhonghua Li
   • Jiayong Duan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 34

3. Effect of a Minimal Spacing between Inhomogeneities on the Effective Moduli of Isotropic Plates with Circular Inhomogeneities

   • Lianxi Shen
   • Jackie Li

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 40

4. Contents of Volume 117 (2002)

   Volume Contents Pages: 41 - 41

5. Effects of plastic anisotropy on crack-tip behaviour

   • Brian Nyvang Legarth
   • Viggo Tvergaard
   • Mitsutoshi Kuroda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 312

6. Micro-mechanical analysis and TEM study of crack initiation in dislocation free zone

   • C.F. Qian
   • W.Y. Chu
   • L.J. Qiao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 321

7. Numerical solution of cracked thin plates subjected to bending, twisting and shear loads

   • R.K.L. Su
   • H.Y. Sun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 335

8. Path-independent integral for the dilatation symmetry group in thermoplasticity

   • P. Sansen
   • Philippe Dufrénoy
   • Dieter Weichert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 346

9. Numerical modeling of size effects with gradient elasticity - Formulation, meshless discretization and examples

   • Harm Askes
   • Elias C. Aifantis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 358

10. Mechanism of effects of warm prestressing(WPS) on apparent toughness of notched steel specimens: Part I: Experimental

    • G.Z. Wang
    • Z.Q. Dong
    • X. Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 373

11. Mechanism of effects of warm prestressing (WPS) on apparent toughness of notched steel specimens Part II: Calculations and analyses

    • J.H. Chen
    • H.J. Wang
    • X. Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 392