The symposium on Toughness and Fracture Behavior of Titanium waspresented at May Committee Week of the American Society for Testingand Materials held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1–6 May 1977.Committee J01 on Effect of Temperature on the Properties of Metals,which is a joint committee of the American Society for Testing andMaterials, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and MetalProperties Council, sponsored the symposium. R. G. Broadwell,TIMET, and C. F. Hickey, Jr., Army Materials and Mechanics ResearchCenter, presided as symposium chairmen.