Residual Stress and Its Effects on Fatigue and Fracture: Proceedings of a Special Symposium held within the 16th European Conference of Fracture - ECF16, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 3-7 July, 2006

The contents of this book have been grouped into three topic areas covering theoretical /numerical and experimental analyses of residual stress and its effects on fatigue and fracture. It details recent advances on its title topics by leading European experts and contains theoretical/numerical studies of high value backed by sound experimental data. It also provides experimental studies based on novel and verifiable testing methods.