Table of Contents
| 1. Application of a Newman model to a fatigue life prediction of finite-width steel specimen with a single edge crack | |
| Piotr Artymiak | 5-12 |
| 2. Method of dynamic fracture toughness determination of cast steel on the base of the Charpy impact energy test | |
| Marta Biel-Gołaska | 13-19 |
| 3. The concept of automatic profilometric fracture surface measurements | |
| Andrzej Bochenek | 21-29 |
| 4. Cracking of creeping plates in terms of continuum damage mechanics | |
| Adam Bodnar, Marcin Chrzanowski | 31-42 |
| 5. Investigation into fatigue crack propagation in WT-9 titanium alloy | |
| Lucjan Bukowski, Sylwester Kłysz | 43-57 |
| 6. Effect of service conditions upon the processes of metal mould fatigue fracture | |
| Marek Cieśla, Tadeusz Lamber, Jerzy Okrajni, Marek Plaza | 59-67 |
| 7. Fatigue crack Propagation in flat 18G2A and St3SY steel welded specimens | |
| Czesław Goss, Andrzej Likowski, Jan Leśniewski, Sylwester Kłysz | 69-76 |
| 8. Study of fracture toughness and fracture energy in composites | |
| Mieczysław Jaroniek | 77-84 |
| 9. Hydrogen induced internal cracking in metals caused by transient thermal processes | |
| Victor Kharin | 85-94 |
| 10. Probabilistic evaluation of fatigue life of structural components in presence of crack propagation process | |
| Stanisław Kocańda, Henryk Tomaszek | 95-108 |
| 11. Flexibility of cracked composite beams | |
| Marek Krawczuk, Wiesław Ostachowicz | 109-118 |
| 12. Evaluation of dynamic fracture toughness J_Id using instrumented charpy impact test | |
| Zbigniew Lis, Hans Jacob Schindler | 119-128 |
| 13. Fatigue life of steel under synchronous and asynchronous combined bending and torsion with variable amplitudes according to criteria of biaxial random fatigue | |
| Tadeusz Łagoda, Ewald Macha | 129-139 |
| 14. Shadow optical method of caustics: experimental setup, computer simulation, constraints | |
| Robert Molasy, Andrzej Neimitz | 141-151 |
| 15. Method of stress intensity factor calculation based on the unitary weight finction | |
| Krzysztof Molski | 153-161 |
| 16. Short fatigue crack growth in laser hardened medium carbon steel | |
| Dorota Natkaniec, Stanisław Kocańda, Keith John Miller | 163-176 |
| 17. Stress intensity factor in a contact problem of a coated layer in field of thermodiffusion | |
| Zbigniew S. Olesiak | 177-191 |
| 18. Crack initiation caused by distorsions | |
| Donat Renowicz, Franciszek Binczyk | 193-201 |
| 19. Comparison of simplified methods of dynamic stress intensity factor evaluation | |
| Igor V. Rokach | 203-212 |
| 20. Experimental and theoretical analysis of a crack growth under loading with variable amplitudes | |
| Edmund Wittbrodt, Henryk Potulski | 213-220 |
| 21. Fracture process in reinforced concrete beams | |
| Ludomir Jankowski, Andrzej Pszonka, Dariusz Styś | 221-235 |
| 22. Possibilities of mathematical processing of the impact bend test of charpy V samples diagram | |
| Eugeniusz Ranatowski, Ryszard Strzelecki, Jan Sadowski | 237-248 |
| 23. The effect of nitrogen on low-cycle fatigue mechanisms of austenitic stainless cast steels | |
| Józef Fila, Zdzisław Zatorski | 249-260 |
| 24. Fracture toughness test of short fibre composites | |
| Leszek Gołaski, Jerzy Schmidt | 261-272 |
| 25. Fundamental solutions related to the stress intensity factors of modes I, II and III. The axially-symmetric problem | |
| Bogdan Rogowski | 273-289 |