Fatigue under Thermal and Mechanical Loading: Mechanisms, Mechanics and Modelling

The use of plastic strain control in Thermomechanical fatigue testing.- An experimental system for thermal mechanical and biaxial fatigue studies.- Analysis of thermal fatigue tests for superalloy components.- The use of an advanced automated crack monitoring system to investigate high temperature fatigue crack growth in a nickel-based superalloy.- Bithermal fatigue testing: experimental and prediction problems.- Structural integrity assessment of the fusion reactor first wall using the ASME code.- Initiation and growth of cracks under thermal fatigue loading for a 316 L type steel.- Crack growth from defects in 316L stainless steel components under thermal fatigue/creep loading.- Growth and coalescence behaviour of surface multi-cracks in type 304 stainless steel at elevated temperature.- Damage and fatigue life of superalloy IN738LC under thermo-mechanical and low cycle fatigue loading.- The effect of thermo-mechanical fatigue loading on surface oxidation of IN738LC superalloy.- Phenomenological damage parameters for TMF life prediction of DS CM 247 LC.- Temperature dependence of the intrinsic small fatigue crack growth behaviour in Ni-base superalloys based on measurement of crack closure.- Thermal fatigue behaviour of the nickel-based superalloy CMSX-4.- Comparison of single crystal superalloys for turbine blades through TMF tests.- Thermo-mechanical fatigue behaviour of SRR99.- Importance of crack growth to damage under TMF loading.- Influence of cycle shape and specimen geometry on TMF of an ODS nickel-base superalloy.- High-cycle fatigue of high-temperature alloys under thermal cycling conditions.- The effect of environment on the thermal fatigue behavior of gamma titanium aluminide.- Characterization of creep fatigue cracking in type 304 stainless steel.- Creep-fatigue behaviour under service-type strain cycling.- Sensitivity of fatigue crack growth in a reactor steel to thermomechanical ageing in hydrogen environment.- Crack growth resistance of rolling alloys under the influence of thermomechanical loading and cooling water environment.- Thermo-mechanical fatigue of a composite steel.- TMF life and damage mechanism maps for titanium matrix composites.- Effects of grain boundary phase viscosity on high temperature cyclic fatigue behaviour of a Si3N4.- Thermal fatigue of thermostructural composites.- Fatigue behaviour of SiC fibre toughened barium magnesium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic laminates.- Effect of temperature change on delamination crack growth of unidirectional CFRP under cyclic loading.- Damage development due to cyclic thermal loading in cross-ply carbon/epoxy laminates.- Solidification structures and post-fatigue precipitate morphology in a single crystal superalloy.- Effect of substrate crystal orientation on the microstructure and fracture properties of nickel aluminide coatings on superalloys subjected to TMF.- Characteristics of a population of naturally initiated cracks that evolves during the thermomechanical fatigue testing of SRR99.- Thermal-mechanical fatigue behaviour of NiCr22Co12Mo9.- Microstructural aspects of damage occurring during thermo-mechanical and low cycle fatigue testing of an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy.- Material behaviour and development of microstructure during thermal-mechanical fatigue of a 12% chromium steel.- Thermal-mechanical fatigue of the cast aluminium alloy GK-AlSi10Mg wa.- The effect of particle size on thermo-mechanical fatigue of Al/SiC metal matrix composites.- Modelling of the thermal-mechanical fatigue behaviour of coated and bare nickel-base superalloy single crystal AM1.- Crack propagation and life prediction in a nickel-based superalloy under TMF conditions.- Crack growth prediction in fatigue and creep with environmental effects.- Lifetime prediction in the creep-fatigue interaction regime applying the SRM rule combined with an appropriate constitutive model.- The stress-strain behaviour of IN738LC under thermomechanical uni- and multiaxial fatigue loading.- Thermo-mechanical behaviour and modelling of an austenitic stainless steel under anisothermal cyclic loadings.- A martensitic 10.6% Cr-steel under mechanical and thermal fatigue.- Modelling of the stress-strain behaviour of metal moulds.- Thermo-mechanical fatigue life prediction method in terms of energy.- Thermo-mechanical behaviour of surface mount solder joint during thermal cycling.- Fatigue of continuous fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites: review of mechanisms and models.- Author index.