1. The Extended Range of Reaction-layer Fatigue Susceptibility of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films

   • O. N. Pierron
   • C. L. Muhlstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 18

2. Ductile Fracture by Central Bursts in Drawn 2011 Aluminium Wire

   • P. Mcallen
   • P. Phelan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 33

3. Fracture Resistance of a Cracked Concrete Beam Post-strengthened with FRP Sheets

   • Z. J. Wu
   • C. G. Bailey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 49

4. A Direct Energy Balance Approach for Determining Energy Release Rates in Three and Four Point Bend End Notched Flexure Tests

   • Xuekun Sun
   • Barry D. Davidson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 72

5. Crack Tip Shielding or Anti-shielding due to Smooth and Discontinuous Material Inhomogeneities

   • N. K. Simha
   • F. D. Fischer
   • G. X. Shan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 93

6. Displacement Discontinuity Method for Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Reissner Plates: Static and Dynamic

   • P. H. Wen
   • M. H. Aliabadi
   • J. Z. Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 116

7. Specimen Size Requirements for Two-parameter Fracture Toughness Testing

   • X. K. Zhu
   • Y. J. Chao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 136

8. A Method to Extract Interface Stress Intensity Factors for Bimaterial Problems using Interlayers

   • Sridhar Santhanam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 159

9. Some Expressions for the Strain Energy in a Finite Volume Surrounding the Root of Blunt V-notches

   • P. Lazzarin
   • F. Berto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 185

10. Biological Structures Mitigate Catastrophic Fracture Through Various Strategies

    • R. Ballarini
    • R Kayacan
    • A. H. Heuer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 197

11. Numerical Analysis of the Three Point Bend Impact Test for Polymers

    • A. Rager
    • J. G. Williams
    • A. Ivankovic

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 215

12. Modeling System Effects in Ballistic Impact into Multi-layered Fibrous Materials for Soft Body Armor

    • Pankaj K. Porwal
    • S. Leigh Phoenix

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 249

13. In-plane and Out-of-plane Fracture Toughness of Physically Aged Polyesters as Assessed by the Essential Work of Fracture (EWF) Method

    • T. Bárány
    • F. Ronkay
    • T. Czigány

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 265

14. On the Asymptotic Stress Field in Angularly Nonhomogeneous Materials

    • Alberto Carpinteri
    • Marco Paggi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 283

15. Dynamic Stress Intensity Factor of Interfacial Finite Cracks in Orthotropic Materials

    • E. Lira-Vergara
    • C. Rubio-Gonzalez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 309

16. Author Index, Vol. 135 (2005)

    OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 311

17. Contents of Volume 135 (2005)

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 314

18. The Representative Volume Size in Static and Dynamic Micro-Macro Transitions

    • Inna M. Gitman
    • Harm Askes
    • Elias C. Aifantis

    OriginalPaper Pages: L3 - L9

19. Size and Scale Effects in Fretting Fatigue Thresholds

    • Daniele Dini
    • David Nowell
    • Alexander M. Korsunsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: L11 - L18

20. Analysis of Essential Work of Rupture using Non-local Damage-plasticity Modelling

    • Alexander M. Korsunsky
    • Giang D. Nguyen
    • Guy T. Houlsby

    OriginalPaper Pages: L19 - L26

21. The Dependence of Stress Intensity Factors and Weight Functions on Elastic Constants

    • Deukman An
    • Yongjoo Cho
    • Inho Son

    OriginalPaper Pages: L27 - L32

22. From Neuber’s Elementary Volume to Kitagawa and Atzori’s Diagrams: An Interpretation Based on Local Energy

    • P. Lazzarin
    • F. Berto

    OriginalPaper Pages: L33 - L38