Durability and Failure in Engineering Materials

Table of Contents

Fracture Strength of Resin/Metal Bonds

A Study of the Thermal Shock Resistance of Glazed and Unglazed Ceramic Tableware

Environmental Effects on Crack Growth Rates in Glass Fibre Reinforced Polyester

The Oxidation of a Silicon Nitride Ceramic Densified with Mixed Magnesia/Neodymia Additions

The Durability of Materials used in Orthopaedic Implants

Effects of Processing Conditions and Microstructural Development on Strength of Silicon Nitride Densified with Magnesia/Neodymia Mixed Additives

The Effect of Zirconia Second Phase Additions on the Strength and Fracture Toughness of a Mullite Ceramic

Toughness of Ultrafine WC-Co Composites from Hertzian and Palmqvist Indentation Testing

Palmqvist Indentation Crack Analyses for Toughness Determination in WC-Co Composites

Material Evaluation and Assessment with the PEAT Microscope

Expert System Blackboard Concept Applied to Mechanical Analysis and Design

Numerical Solution of Anisotropic Linear Elastic Fracture Problems - Edge Function Methods

Instrumentation in a Creep Laboratory

An Integrity Assessment of Two H.P. Turbine Rotors Straightened by Hot-Spotting

Author Index