Design of fatigue and fracture resistant structures

The volume contains 21 papers presented at the meeting. Subjects covered include design methods and criteria, offshore structures, aircraft structures, ground vehicle structures, structural panels, spot welds, adhesive joints, jet engine motor disks, guyed tower hardware, space shuttle components, crack initiation and propagation, initial flaw criticality, maintenance scheduling based on accumulated crack growth, load-environment interaction effects, analysis methodology, fatigue life prediction, experimental and analytical evaluation of structures, durability and damage tolerance, fracture tolerance analysis, and others. Four articles are abstracted separately.