37 peer-reviewed papers focus on two significant topics withindamage tolerance: structural assessment and fatigue behavior in thethreshold regime.

Sections cover:
• Modeling of 3-D Effects on Fatigue Crack Closure Processes inSmall-Scale Yielding
• Fractographic Reassessment of the Significance of Fatigue CrackClosure
• Fatigue Crack Growth Thresholds I
• Fracture Fundamentals
• Fatigue Crack Growth Thresholds II
• Integrity Assessment I
• Small Cracks I
• Integrity Assessment II
• Fatigue I
• Experimental Methods I
• Fatigue Crack Growth in the Railroad Industry
• Experimental Methods II
• Small Cracks II
• Ductile-to-Brittle Transition
• Fatigue II
• Additional Fracture Topics
• Crack Closure
• Fatigue III