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Fatigue

Catastrophic failure of a raise boring machine during underground reaming operations
A. James .................................................................................................................................................. 175
Fatigue failure of the de Havilland Comet I
P.A. Withey ............................................................................................................................................. 185
Low-cycle fatigue of titanium 6A1-4V surgical tools
H. Velasquez, M. Smith, J. Foyos, F. Fisher. O.S. Es-Said and G. Sines ............................................... 193
Failure analysis and experimental stress analysis of a threaded rotating shaft
R.B. Tait .................................................................................................................................................. 199
An investigation of the failure of low pressure steam turbine blades
N.K. Mukhopadhyay, S. Ghosh Chowdhury, G. Das, I Chattoraj, S.K. Das and
D.K. Bhattacharya ................................................................................................................................ 211
Vibration-induced fatigue failure of an impulse line
K.R. Al-Asmi and A.C. Seibi .................................................................................................................. 225
Malfunctions of a steam turbine mechanical control system
J.H. Bulloch and A.G. Callagy ................................................................................................................ 235
Fatigue failure of hold-down bolts for a hydraulic cylinder gland
C. Tao, N. Xi, H. Yan and Y. Zhang ....................................................................................................... 241
Analysis of a vehicle wheel shaft failure
J. Vogwell ............................................................................................................................................... 247
Fatigue failure analysis of a leg press exercise machine
P.J.Vernon and T.J Mackin ..................................................................................................................... 255
Failure analysis of rubber fuel pipes in aero-engines
G. Fu ........................................................................................................................................................ 267

Environmental attack

Failure of austenitic stainless steel components used in nitrogen oxide plant
V.M.J. Sharma, A.K. Jha, P. Ramesh Narayanan, S. Arumugham and T.S. Lakshmanan ..................... 277
Corrosion of central heating systems
D.R.H. Jones ........................................................................................................................................... 285
Crevice corrosion of 3 16L caused by chloride partition in water-butanone mixtures
J.H. Cleland ............................................................................................................................................. 301
Type I pitting of copper tubes from a water distribution system
P.J.L. Fernandes ...................................................................................................................................... 307
Corrosion of flexible waveguides
D. Papatheodorou, M. Smith and O.S. Es-Said ....................................................................................... 3 13
Failure of automobile seat belts caused by polymer degradation
J.M. Henshaw, V. Wood and A.C. Hall .................................................................................................. 317
Oxidation failure of radiant heater tubes
K.B. Yoon and D.G. Jeong ...................................................................................................................... 33 1

Environmentally assisted cracking
Sustained load crack growth leading to failure in aluminium gas cylinders in traffic
J.W.H. Price, R.N. Ibrahim and D. Ischenko .......................................................................................... 345
Hydrogen-assisted stress-corrosion of prestressing wires in a motonvay viaduct
L. Vehovar, V. Kuhar and A. Vehovar ................................................................................................... 357