The nuclear reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is the most critical pressure boundary and safety
structure in a nuclear power plant, as it contains the reactor core and coolant. RPVs, which …

This review paper is devoted to the local approach to fracture (LAF) for the prediction of the
fracture toughness of structural steels. The LAF has been considerably developed over the …

This is the first of three overviews on failure of metals. Here, brittle and ductile failure under
monotonic loadings are addressed within the context of the local approach to fracture. In this …

Since it was first proposed in the early eighties, the local approach to cleavage fracture, or
Beremin model, has been applied to a wide range of engineering problems. However …

The anisotropic cryogenic ductile and cleavage fracture properties of a body-centered cubic
(bcc) steel at− 196° C have been investigated under a broad spectrum of loading conditions …

The nanometer-sized plate-like morphology of bone mineral is necessary for proper bone
mechanics and physiology. However, mechanisms regulating the morphology of these …

We describe the highly efficient master curves–shifts (MC–ΔT) method to measure and apply
cleavage fracture toughness, KJc (T), data and show that it is applicable to 9Cr martensitic …

This study examines crack front length and constraint loss effects on cleavage fracture
toughness in ferritic steels at temperatures in the ductile-to-brittle transition region. A local …

Non-uniform pre-crack fronts often develop during fatigue pre-cracking of mini-CT specimen,
resulting in invalid measurement when following the tight requirements of the ASTM …

This study applies recent advances in probabilistic modelling of cleavage fracture to predict
the measured fracture behaviour of surface crack plates fabricated from an A515‐70 …