| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Editors' Biographies | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Preamble | p. xix |
| Determination of the Hardness of the Oxide Layers of 2017 A Alloys | p. 1 |
| Effect of Non-Metallic Inclusions on Hydrogen Induced Cracking | p. 11 |
| Defect Assessment on Pipe Transporting a Mixture of Natural Gas and Hydrogen | p. 19 |
| Reliability Analysis of Low Alloy Ferritic Piping Materials | p. 33 |
| Experimental Characterization and Effect of the Triaxiality on the Behavior of the HDPE | p. 43 |
| Effects of Aggressive Chemical Environments on Mechanical Behavior of Polyethylene Piping Material | p. 49 |
| Hydrogen Embrittlement Enhanced by Plastic Deformation of Super Duplex Stainless Steel | p. 59 |
| Hydrogen Effect on Local Fracture Emanating from Notches in Pipeline Steels | p. 69 |
| Reliability Assessment of Underground Pipelines Under Active Corrosion Defects | p. 83 |
| An Overview of the Applications of NDI/NDT in Engineering Design for Structural Integrity and Damage Tolerance in Aircraft Structures | p. 93 |
| Improvement in the Design of Automobile Upper Suspension Control Arms Using Aluminum Alloys | p. 101 |
| Performances of Vehicles' Active Suspensions | p. 113 |
| Damaging Influence of Cutting Tools on the Manufactured Surfaces Quality | p. 121 |
| Design and Test of a Sandwich T-Joint for Naval Ships | p. 131 |
| Vibroacoustic Sources Identification of Gear Mechanism Transmission | p. 143 |
| Prediction of Structural and Dynamic Behaviors of Impacted Plates | p. 153 |
| Application of Structural INTegrity Assessment Procedure to Nuclear Power Plant Component | p. 163 |
| Failure Assessment Diagrams in Structural Integrity Analysis | p. 173 |
| Degradation and Failure of Some Polymers (Polyethylene and Polyamide) for Industrial Applications | p. 183 |
| On the Structural Integrity of the Nano-PVD Coatings Applied on Cutting Tools | p. 195 |
| Investigation of Energy Balance in Nanocrystalline Titanium Under Cyclic Loading | p. 205 |
| Behavior of Stainless Steel 316L Under Impact Test | p. 213 |
| Spall Fracture in ARMCO Iron: Structure Evolution and Spall Strength | p. 219 |
| Damage Modelling of Impacted Tubular Structures by Using Material Property Degradation Approach | p. 227 |
| Fracture Control for Northern Pipelines | p. 237 |
| The Influence of the Interface on Fracture Parameters | p. 245 |
| Crack Propagation in the Vicinity of the Interface Between Two Elastic Materials | p. 255 |
| Fracture Behaviour of TiAl Intermetalics | p. 265 |
| Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Mixed Mode Fracture in Granite Using Four-Point-Bend Specimen | p. 275 |
| Experimental and Numerical Determination of Stress Intensity Factors of Crack in Plate with a Multiple Holes | p. 285 |
| Dynamic Response of Cracked Plate Subjected to Impact Loading Using the Extended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) | p. 297 |
| On Heterogeneity of Welded Joint by Modelling of Diffusion | p. 307 |
| Correlation of Microstructure and Toughness of the Welded Joint of Pipeline Steel X65 | p. 315 |
| Effect of the Residual Fatigue Damage on the Static and Toughness Properties | p. 323 |
| Influence of Fatigue Damage in Dynamic Tensile Properties of AISI 4140T Steel | p. 331 |
| Low-Cycle Fatigue of Al-Mg Alloys | p. 341 |
| Damage of Glulam Beams Under Cyclic Torison: Experiments and Modelling | p. 349 |
| Statistical Study of Temperature Effect on Fatigue Life of Thin Welded Plates | p. 357 |
| Resideual Stress Effect on Fatigue Crack Growth of SENT Specimen | p. 367 |
| Analysis of Elliptical Cracks in Static and in Fatigue by Hybridization of Green's Functions | p. 375 |
| Influence of Coating on Friction and Wear of Combustion Engine Piston Rings | p. 387 |
| Optimization Constrained of the Lifetime of the CBN 7020 During the Machining of Steel 100 Cr6 | p. 395 |
| Comparison of Simulation Methods of Pulsed Ultrasonic Fields Radiated in Isotropic Solids | p. 405 |
| Investigation of Ag Doping Effects on Na1.5C02cO4 Elastic Parameters | p. 415 |
| The Dynamics of Compressible Herschel-Bulkley Fluids in Die-Swell Flows | p. 425 |
| Numerical Simulation of the Behaviour of Cracks in Axisymmetric Structures by the Dual Boundary Element Method | p. 435 |
| Numerical Evaluation of Energy Release Rate for Several Crack Orientation and Position to the Bi-Material Interface Plates | p. 445 |
| Numerical Simulation of the Ductile Fracture Growth Using the Boundary Element Method | p. 455 |
| Enriched Finite Element for Model Analysis of Cracked Plates | p. 463 |
| A New Generation of 3D Composite Materials: Advantage and Disadvantage | p. 473 |
| Benefit from Embedded Sensors to Study Polymeric Composite Structures | p. 485 |
| Effect of Temperature and Initiatory on Glass Fibre/Unsaturated Polyester Composite: Cross-linking, Mechanical Properties | p. 497 |
| Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Plane Strain Compression of Amorphous Polymers in the form of a Flat Plate | p. 505 |
| Wavelet-Based Multifractal Identification of Fracture Stages | p. 513 |
| Characterization of Mixed Mode Delamination Growth and Thresholds | p. 523 |
| Modification of Cellulose for an Application in the Waste Water Treatment | p. 531 |
| A Full 3D Simulation of Plastic Forming Using a Heuristic Generalised Contact Algorithm | p. 539 |
| A Novel Approach for Bone Remodeling After Prosthetic Implantation | p. 553 |
| Hybrid Composite-Metal Hip Resurfacing Implant for Active Patient | p. 567 |
| Anisostropic and Unilateral Damage Application to Concrete | p. 573 |
| The Behaviour of Self-Compacting Concrete Subjected to an External Sulphate Attack | p. 583 |
| Mixed Finite Element for Cracked Interface | p. 591 |
| Three-Dimensional T-Stress to Predict the Directional Stability of Crack Propagation in a Pipeline with External Surface Crack | p. 601 |
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