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EGF1 Contents

An Introduction	1
Summary	5
Design Considerantions	13
Applying Fatigue Research to Engineering Design I.F.C. Smith	15
Short Cracks in Aerospace Structures R.J. Wanhill	27
Short Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour in Al2024 and Al7475 A.F. Blom, A. Hedlund, W. Zhao, A. Fathulla, B. Weiss, and R. Stickler	37
Material and Speciman Preparation Effects	67
The Effect of Surface Finish on High Cycle Fatigue of a Low Alloy Steel R.W. Suhr	69
On Fatigue Crack Growth in Stage I V.M. Radhakrishnan and Y. Mutoh
A Comparison of Long and Short Fatigue Crack Growth in a High Strength Aluminium Alloy R.K. Bolingbroke and J.E. King	101
Short Fatigue Cracks in Technical pm-Mo Alloys A. Fathulla, B. Weiss, and R. Stickler	115
Fatigue Growth of Long and Short Cracks in a Powder Metallurgy Nickel Base Superalloy F. Soniak and L. Remy	133
Environmental Aspects	143
Initiation and Growth of Surface Microcracks in Polycrystalline Copper Cycled in Air and in Vacuum J. Mendez, P. Violan and G. Gasc	145
On the Effect of Environment on Short Crack Growth Behaviour and Threshold J. Petit and A. Zeghloul	163
Initial Stages of Hydriogen Induced Short Fatigue Crack Propagation P.E.V. de Miranda and R. Pascal	179
Microstructural Considerations	191
The Growth of Persistent Slip Bands during Fatigu W. J. Baxter
The Initiation and Growth of Intergranularly Initiated Short fatigue Cracks in an Aluminium 4.5 per cent Copper Alloy P.M. Mulvihill and C.J. Beevers	203
Initiation and Short Crack Behaviour in Aluminium Alloy Castings A. Plumtree and S. Schafer	215
The Growth of Fatigue Cracks in a Nickel Based Single Crystal C. Howland	229
The Behaviour of Physically Short Fatigue Cracks in Steels J.M. Kendal, M.N. James, and J.F. Knott	241
Notches	259
Tolerant Microflow Sizes and Non-Propagating Crack Behaviour K. Yamada, M.G. Kim, and T. Kunio	261
Effects of Hardness and Crack Geometries on deltaKth of Small Cracks Emanating from Small Defects Y. Murakami and M. Endo	275
Fatigue Crack Growth in Micro-Notched Specimens of High Strength Steels O. Oni and C. Bathias	295
Initiation and Early Growth of Fatigue Cracks from a Circumferential Notch Loaded in Torsion E. Hay and M.W. Brown	309
The Effect of Notch Radius on the Fatigue Notch Factor and the Propagation of Short Cracks D.L. DuQuesnay, T.H. Topper, and M.T. Yu	323
Behaviour of Small Fatigue Cracks at Blunt Notches in Aero-Engine Alloys I.W. Hussey, J. Byrne, and T.V. Duggan	337
Short Crack Phenomena in a High Aluminium Alloy and some Analytical Tools for their Prediction J. Foth, R. Marissen, K.H. Trautmann, and H. Nowack	353
Mechanics Aspects of Small Crack Growth from Notches-the Role of Crack Closure P. Lalor, H. Sehitoglu, and R. McClung	369
Fatigue Short Crack Propagation and Plasticity-Induced Crack Closure at the Toe of A Fillet Welded Joint Y. Verreman, J.P. Bailon, and J. Masounave	387
Fracture Mechanics	405
Thermodynamic Considerations of Fatigue Crack Nucleation and Propagation F. Guiu and R.N. Stevens	407
Interfaces Between Short, Long, and Non-Propagating Cracks M.W. Brown	423
Two Phases of Short Crack Growth in a medium Carbon Steel P.D. Hobson, M.W. Brown, and E.R. de los Rios	441
A Small-Crack Growth Law and its Application to the Evaluation of Fatigue Life H. Nisitani and M. Goto	461
Fatigue of Short Cracks: the Limitations of Fracture Mechanics D. Taylor	479
Fatigue Damage Accumulation Above and Below the Fatigue Limit K.J. Miller, H.J. Mohamed, and E.R. de los Rios	491
Initiation and Propagation of Short Cracks in Aluminium Alloy Subjected to Programmed Block Loading L. Bouksim and C. Bathias	513
Acoustic Microscopy	527
How to Observe Short Surface Cracks by Acoustic Microscopy G.A.D. Briggs, E.R. de los Rios, and K.J. Miller	529
Small Fatigue Crack Behaviour Monitored using surface Acoustic Waves in Quenched and Tempered 4140 Steel	537
Conclusions	553
Index	557