Fatigue under thermal and mechanical loading : mechanism, mechanics, and modelling : proceedings of the Symposium held at Petten, The Netherlands, 22-24 May 1995

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.