Low Cycle Fatigue and Elasto-Plastic Behaviour of Materials

The 4th International Conference on Low Cycle Fatigue and Elasto-Plastic Behaviour of Materials was held from 7-11 September 1998 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

In response to a call for papers, nearly 200 extended abstracts from 32 countries were submitted to the organizing committee. These papers were presented at the conference as invited lectures or short contributions and as oral or poster presentation. All the papers were presented in poster form in extended poster sessions-a peculiarity of the LCF Conferences which allows an intense, thorough discussion of all contributions.

Each chapter provides a comprehensive overview of a materials class or a given subject. Many contributions could have been included in two or even three chapters and so, in order to give a better overview of the content, the reader will find a subject index, a material index and an author index in the back of the book.

Chapter headings and selected papers: Isothermal Low Cycle Fatigue; General Aspects. Room and high-temperature low cycle fatigue of lamellar structured TiA1 (R. Ohtani et al.). Thermal and Thermo-Mechanical Loading. Thermal and thermal-mechanical fatigue of superalloys, a challenging goal for mechanical tests and models (L. Remy). Multiaxial Loading. An evaluation of methods for estimating fatigue lives under multiaxial nonproportional variable amplitude loading (D. Socie). Microstructural Aspects. Relationship between cyclic stress-strain response and substructure (A. Plumtree, H.A. Abdel-Raouf). Influence of Environmental Conditions and Surface Treatments. Evaluation of stress corrosion resistance and corrosion fatigue fracture behavior of ultra-high-strength P/M A1-Zn-Mg alloy (K. Minoshima et al.). Advanced Materials. Influence of local damage on the creep behaviour of particle reinforced metal matrix composites (C. Broeckmann, R. Pandorf). Behaviour of Short and Large Cracks. An analysis of the Gerber parabolic relationship based upon small fatigue crack growth behavior (A.J. McEvily, S. Ishihara). Crack Initiation and Coalescing; Damage Evolution. Interaction between low cycle fatigue and high cycle fatigue in 316L stainless steel (G. Wheatley et al.). Constitutive Equations; Modelling. A microstructurally based explanation for the high temperature LCF behaviour of the ODS nickel-base superalloy PM 1000 (M. Heilmaier, F.E.H. Müller). Design Methods; Life Prediction. Fatigue propagation of surface cracks under cyclic loading (T. Boukharouba et al.). Methods of service durability assessment (C.M. Sonsino). Case Studies; Practical Experience. Significance of dwell cracking for IN718 turbine discs (R.J.H. Wanhill). The low-cycle fatigue of fibre-metal-hybrid structures (G.W. Mair). Subject index. Materials index. Author index.