THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS (ISSN: 0167-8442)

Description

The Mechanics and Physics of Fracture part encourages publication of original research on Material damage leading to crack growth and/or fatigue. Materials treated include metal alloys, polymers, composites, rocks, ceramics, etc. The material damage process is complex because it involves the combined effect of loading, size and geometry, temperature and environment. Formulation may involve the dissipation of energy in various forms and the identification of microscopic entities and their interactions with macroscopic variables. The advent of the modern computer, however, has offered added capability for analysing the stresses and/or strain and failure modes. The construction and verification of quantitative theories can be more readily carried out. Encouraged in particular are contributions related to predictions of material damage behaviour based on microscopic and/or macroscopic models.The Fracture Mechanics Technology section emphasises material characterisation techniques and translation of specimen data to design. Contributions shall cover the application of fracture mechanics to hydro and electric machineries, offshore oil exploration equipment, pipelines and pressure vessels, nuclear reactor components, air, land and sea vehicles, and many others. Among the areas to be emphasized are: case histories; material selection and structure design; sample calculations of practical design problems; material characterisation procedures; fatigue crack growth and corrosion; nondestructive testing and inspection; code requirements and standards; structural failure and ageing; failure prevention methodologies; maintenance and repair; and product liability and technical insurance.
It has been the editorial policy of Theorectical and Applied Fracture Mechanics to discourage the publication of manuscripts that are purely mathematical or empirical in nature. Those works corresponding to the aforementioned category will be returned to the author without review. The following description may serve as a guideline:
(1) Boundary value problem solutions derived using standard techniques.
(2) Numerical solutions using commercial computer programswith little or no application.
(3) Raw test results that are not directed at specific applications.
(4) Damage or failure criteria that are known to have yielded results contrary to physics.
However, authors submitting papers of an experimental nature should include raw data with their submissions in order to support the findings being presented. The purpose of this requirement is to (1) guard against falsifying test data and (2) mitigate the misrepresentation of test data.
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