International Journal of Fracture CONTENTS OF VOLUME 83 (1997) Vol. 83, No. 1, 1997 Analysis of cracks in constrained layers C.H. WANG Scaling of quasibrittle fracture: asymptotic analysis ZDENEK P. BAZANT Scaling of quasibrittle fracture: hypotheses of invasive and lacunar fractality, their critique and Weibull connection ZDENEK P. BAZANT Stress singularities in 2D orthotropic corners V. MANTIC, F. PARIS and J. CANAS Computation of mode I stress intensity factors for three-dimensional bodies using displacements at an arbitrary location W. CHENG and I. FINNIE Vol. 83, No. 2, 1997 Advances in the mechanism ofc leavage fracture of low alloy steel at low temperature. Part I: J.H. CHEN, G.Z. WANG, C. YAN, Critical event H. MA and L. ZHU 105-120 Advances in the mechanism ofc leavage fracture of low alloy steel at low temperature. Part II: J.H. CHEN, G.Z. WANG, C. YAN, Fracture model H. MA and L. ZHU 121-138 Advances in the mechanism ofc leavage fracture of low alloy steel at low temperature. Part III: J.H. CHEN, G.Z. WANG, C. YAN, Local fracture stress o f H. MA and L. ZHU 139-157 Analysis of crack growth rate based on rotation at the crack tip plastic zone A. BHATTACHARYA 159-165 A proposed method for the applicability of load A.N. CASSANELLI and separation condition in precracked specimens L.A. DE VEDIA 167-173 404 On phase transition layers in certain micro- F. DELL’ISOLA and damaged two-phase solids CZ. WOZNIAK 175-189 Crack growth criteria incorporating non- singular stresses: Size effect in apparent fracture toughness A.V. DYSKIN 191-206 Vol. 83, No. 3, 1997 Monotonic subcritical crack growth in T42 high MANUEL A. GOMES, ANDREW speed steel S. WRONSKI and C. STEPHEN WRIGHT 207-221 A thin cracked layer bonded to an elastic half- space under an antiplane concentrated load C.K. CHAO and B. KAO 223-241 Pressurization of a fractured wellbore C. ATKINSON and M. THIERCELIN 243-273 Prediction of crack growth direction for mode M.A. SUTTON, W. ZHAO, I/II loading using small-scale yielding and void M.L. BOONE, A.P. REYNOLDS initiation/ growth concepts and D.S. DAWICKE 275-290 Initiation, propagation and arrest of an interface RAMAN P. SINGH, MAHESH crack subjected to controlled stress wave loading KAVATURU and ARUN SHUKLA 291-309 Vol. 83, No. 4, 1997 Crack velocity and acceleration effects on the K. ARAKAWA, D. NAGOH dynamic stress intensity factor in polymers and K. TAKAHASHI Analysis of a row of elliptical inclusions in a NAO-AKI NODA and plate using singular integral equations TADATOSHI MATSUO 315-336 Continuum analysis’ of dispersed-phase martensitic transformation toughening of M. GRUJICIC and two-phase metallic materials N. SANKARAN 337-358 Computation of thermoelastoplastic stresses in crack problems by the BEM J. SLADEK and V. SLADEK 359-378 Dynamic stress intensity factors around three cracks in an infinite elastic plane subjected to time-harmonic stress waves S. ITOU and H. HALIDING 379-391 The effect of tip plastic energy on mixed-mode crack initiation J.H. KUANG and Y.C. CHEN Volume contents / Author index