Quantification of the enhancement in cleavage fracture toughness of ferritic steels following warm pre-stressing has received great interest in light of its significance in the integrity assessment of such structures as ...

Potentially both global and local approaches may be used to predicting the effect of loading history on cleavage fracture toughness distribution of ferritic steels. In this paper the dramatic increase in the apparent lower ...

This paper presents the results of an experimental and numerical study carried out to investigate

the effect of warm pre-stressing on cleavage fracture in ferritic steels using cracked and notched

specimens. ...

A probability distribution model, based on the local approach to

fracture, has been developed and used for estimating cleavage fracture

following prior loading (or warm pre-stressing) in two ferritic ...

This paper compares different methods for predicting the

influence of residual stresses on brittle fracture. Comparison is

made between fracture predictions of a local statistical

approach based on the ...

Potentially both global and local approaches may be used to predicting the effect of loading

history on cleavage fracture toughness distribution of ferritic steels. In this paper the dramatic

increase in the ...

This paper presents the results of an experimental and numerical study carried out to investigate the

scatter in cleavage fracture in A508, a reactor pressure vessel steel, using a local fracture criterion based

on ...

In this paper application of the local approach to predict the fracture behaviour of A533B ferritic steel at low temperature, in presence of a residual stress field, is investigated. The local approach assumes a Weibull ...

This paper explores the application of the local approach to

brittle fracture to predict the influence of residual stresses in a

relatively thick pipe. Three different surface flaw sizes were

assumed ...