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International Journal of Fracture CONTENTS OF VOLUME 90 (1998) Vol. 90, Nos. 1-2, 1998 Preface Foreword An experimental/analytical comparison of three dimensional deformations at the tip of a crack in a plastically deforming plate I: Optical interfer C.R. SCHULTHEISZ, R.D. PFAFF ometry and experimental preliminaries and W.G. KNAUSS An experimental/analytical comparison of three dimensional deformations at the tip of a crack in a plastically deforming plate II: Material charac C.R. SCHULTHEISZ, R.D. PFAFF terization and finite element analysis and W.G. KNAUSS An experimental/analytical comparison of three dimensional deformations at the tip of a crack in a plastically deforming plate II: Comparison of C.R. SCHULTHEISZ, R.D. PFAFF numerical and experimental results and W.G. KNAUSS Dynamic fracture of nominally brittle materials K. RAVI-CHANDAR Loading rates and the dynamic initiation tough- C. LIU, W.G. KNAUSS and ness in brittle solids A.J. ROSAKIS Fracture roughness evolution during mode | K. TAKAHASHI, M. KIDO and dynamic crack propagation in brittle materials K. ARAKAWA Energy balance in dynamic fracture, investi- gated by a potential drop technique J.A. HAUCH and M.P. MARDER 133-151 Experimental determination of dynamic crack D.M. OWEN, S. ZHUANG initiation and propagation fracture toughness in A.J. ROSAKIS and thin aluminum sheets G. RAVICHANDRAN Vol. 90, No. 3, 1998 \ nonlinear finite element eigenanalysis of sin- gular plane stress fields in bimaterial wedges in- NINGSHENG ZHANG and PAUL cluding complex eigenvalues F. JOSEPH Fracture in off-axis unidirectionally reinforced ceramic composites ALEX S. SELVARATHINAM \ state-space model of fatigue crack growth RAVINDRA PATANKAR, ASOK RAY and AKHLESH LAKHTAKIA Singularity analysis and boundary integral equation method for frictional crack problems in two-dimensional elasticity K.T. CHAU and Y.B. WANG T-stress of an interface macrocrack induced by LI-GUO ZHAO and YI-HENG near tip subinterface micro-cracks CHEN Vol. 90, No. 4, 1998 An analysis of chipping in brittle materials W.C. CHIU, M.D. THOULESS and W.J. ENDRES \ finite element analysis of fracture initiation in M. JHA and P.G. ductile/brittle periodically layered composites CHARALAMBIDES Plane stress crack tip field around a rapidly growing ductile/rigid interface crack XIAOMIN DENG Macrocrack extension by connecting statisti- cally distributed microcracks SULIN ZHANG and WEI YANG \ study of the fracture behavior of unidi rectional fiber-reinforced composites using Coherent Gradient Sensing (CGS) interfero- C. LIU, A.J. ROSAKIS, R.W. metry ELLaInd SM. G. STOUT Designation of mode mix in orthotropic com- posite delamination problems S.H. NARAYAN and J.L. BEUTH Volume contents Author index International Journal of Fracture CONTENTS OF VOLUME 90 (1998) Vol. 90, Nos. 1-2, 1998 A failure mechanism map for angle notch Charpy tests on a mild steel L.P. POOK and M.J. PODBURY L3-L6 On stress intensity factors for an external crack LI XIAN-FANG, SUN YING-FEI of arbitrary shape and FAN TIAN-YOU L7-L12 On a model of ductile-brittle transition by the fracture of solids LEV B. ZUEV L13-L18 Micromechanics of stress corrosion cracking in progressively drawn steels J. TORIBIO and E. OVEJERO L19-L24 Elastic-plastic study of a mixed mode semi-infinite crack by using the Dugdale model J. LI L25-L29 Paper strength: Statistics and correlation M. DIMILLO and structure M. OSTOJA-STARZEWSKI L31-L36 Vol. 90, No. 3, 1998 Stress intensity factor for semi-infinite crack formed by moving thermal source A. KOTOUSOV and J.W.H. PRICE L39-L42 On propagation of small surface breaking cracks A. KOTOUSOV and J.W.H. PRICE L43-L47 Near-tip deformation of a crack under gross sec tion yielding C.H. WANG and M. CHAO L49-L54 Vol. 90, No. 4, 1998 Mechanics of self-affine cracks in carton ALEXANDER BALANKIN, JORGE MENDEZ, GOMEZ MANCILLA and GUILLERMO URRIOLAGOITIA L57-—L62 Analysis of ballistic properties of layered targets GABRIEL BEN-DOR, ANATOLY using Cavity expansion model DUBINSKY and TOV ELPERIN L63-—L67 Stress intensity factors for a planar crack by the LI XIAN-FANG and FAN self-similar crack extension method TIAN-YOU L69-L74