1. National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (to the 80th anniversary of its foundation)

   Announcement Pages: 595 - 600

2. Preface

   • V. V. Panasyuk
   • G. Pluvinage
   • L. Toth

   EditorialNotes Pages: 601 - 603

3. On the fatigue failure and life prediction for notched specimens

   • G. Qylafku
   • Z. Azari
   • G. Pluvinage

   OriginalPaper Pages: 604 - 618

4. Notch effect and brittle-ductile transition

   • L. Tóth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 629

5. Energy approach to fatigue under combined cyclic bending with torsion of smooth and notched specimens

   • T. Łagoda
   • E. Macha

   OriginalPaper Pages: 630 - 639

6. Stress field near a notch root under pure bending

   • A. Carpinteri
   • R. Brighenti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 640 - 646

7. Residual stresses at a blunted crack tip

   • H. Blumenauer
   • M. Krempe
   • J. Ude

   OriginalPaper Pages: 647 - 651

8. Nucleation and growth of corrosion-fatigue cracks from semicircular notches

   • V. V. Panasyuk
   • I. M. Dmytrakh
   • O. L. Bilyi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 652 - 661

9. Deterministic and probabilistic description of fatigu short-crack growth in notched members

   • D. Kocańda
   • S. Kocańda
   • H. Tomaszek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 662 - 671

10. A method for the evaluation of the stress intensity factors for cracks originating from notches

    • I. V. Orynyak
    • M. V. Borodii
    • A. Ya Krasovs'kyi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 672 - 680

11. Fatigue life of randomly loaded notched components

    • M. Bílý
    • P. Horanský
    • V. Kliman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 681 - 695

12. Influence of stress concentrators on the fatigue and fracture characteristics of steels and welded joints

    • K. Kálna

    OriginalPaper Pages: 696 - 700

13. Influence of damage on stress concentration factors

    • M. Grabias
    • M. Chrzanowski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 701 - 708

14. A concept of ultimate crack resistance

    • E. M. Morozov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 709 - 713

15. Analysis of the stress field in front of a notch

    • J. Galkiewicz
    • A. Neimitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 714 - 723

16. P-version of finite elements for the analysis of stress concentrators

    • I. Páczelt
    • Á. Horváth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 724 - 733

17. Twelfth European Conference on Fracture (ECF 12)

    • V. V. Panasyuk
    • I. M. Dmytrakh

    In Scientific Circles Pages: 734 - 738

18. Borys Evhenovych Paton on his 80th birthday

    Announcement Pages: 739 - 740