Mixed-mode Fatigue and Fracture

This book brings together 24 papers presented at an International Conference in Vienna which was organized by the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). It presents for the first time, an overview of a variety of mixed-mode fatigue and failure problems. The papers themselves represent work by authors from all the technologically advanced countries, who theoretically and experimentally study the failure engineering artefacts from the viewpoint of defects which propagate under the influence of mixed loading conditions, mechanisms and processes. The book brings together information on a wide range of materials, components and structures subjected to mixed-mode conditions and as such will prove to be a forerunner to comprehensive research that will help reduce the ever-rising cost of failures in engineering plant.