International Journal of Fracture CONTENTS OF VOLUME 79 (1996) Vol. 79, No. 1, 1996 Foreword: Editorial transition M.L. WILLIAMS Stress, deformation and damage fields near the tip of a crack in a damaged nonlinear material T.-J. WANG and Z.-B. KUANG An incremental analysis of plane strain fully plastic crack growth in strain-hardening mate- rials under extension Q. ZHOU and T. WIERZBICKI Primary fracture propagation from circular cav- ities loaded in compression E.J. DZIK and E.Z. LAJTAI Two-parameter characterization of the near-tip stress fields for a bi-material elastic—plastic inter- Z.L. ZHANG, M. HAUGE and face crack C. THAULOW Rapid crack propagation in plastic water pipes: C.J. GREENSHIELDS and measurement of dynamic fracture resistance P.S. LEEVERS Vol. 79, No. 2, 1996 Fourth Greek National Congress on Mechanics Preface M.L. WILLIAMS Guest Editor Foreword E.E. GDOUTOS Recent developments of fracture mechanics in Greece E.E. GDOUTOS 101-105 Cracks in gradient elastic bodies with surface G. EXADAKTYLOS, energy I. VARDOULAKIS and E. AIFANTIS 107-119 A mechanism for transgranular stress-corrosion W.F. FLANAGAN and cracking B.D. LICHTER Three-dimensional effects in the determination of stress intensity factors by the method of caustics M. KONSTA-GDOUTOS Stress corrosion cracking mechanisms in ductile T. MAGNIN, A. CHAMBREUIL FCC materials and J.P. CHATEAU 147-163 Deformation evolution during initiation of trans- granular stress corrosion cracking E.I. MELETIS and K. LIAN 165-178 406 International Journal of Fracture A comparative study of COD measurements for S. SARAGAS, novel metal matrix composites and alloys S.K. KOURKOULIS and N.P. ANDRIANOPOULOS 179-187 Crack curving under mode-I loading C.G. THIREOS and E.E. GDOUTOS 189-196 Crack growth in a mixed-mode loading on mar- G.S. XEIDAKIS, LS. SAMARAS, ble beams under three point bending D.A. ZACHAROPOULOS and G.E. PAPAKALIATAKIS 197-208 Vol. 79, No. 3, 1996 Damage development in a sidegrooved CT spec- imen based on a 3-D endochronic damage model C.L. CHOW and X.F. CHEN Delamination of beams: an application to the DCB specimen N. POINT and E. SACCO 225-247 Crack growth in non-homogeneous trans- formable ceramics. Part I: Constrained straight G. STAM and cracks E. VAN DER GIESSEN 249-271 Crack growth in non-homogeneous trans- G. STAM and formable ceramics. Part II: Crack deflection E. VAN DER GIESSEN 273-293 On the Hertzian fatigue cone crack propagation S. HU, Z. CHEN and in ceramics J.J. MECHOLSKY, Jr. 295-307 Vol. 79, No. 4, 1996 A transferability model for brittle fracture including constraint and ductile tearing effects: C. RUGGIERI and a probabilistic approach R.H. DODDS, Jr. 309-340 Determination for the time-to-fracture of solids L.L. MISHNAEVSKY, Jr. 341-350 Film cracking and debonding in a coated fiber R. NAHTA and B. MORAN 351-372 Critical assessment of the application of the J integral and CTOD concepts to circumferentially cracked copper bars T. PARDOEN and F. DELANNAY 373-391 Dynamic stress intensity factors analysis of inter- N. MIYAZAKI, T. IKEDA and face crack using line-spring model T. MIYAGI Author index eae aera Nie