Publications

Fracture toughness of forging steels

S Slatcher and J F Knott, The Ductile Fracture of High Strength Steels, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Fracture, Cannes, France, March 29-April 3, Vol 1, 201-207, 1981.

S Slatcher and J F Knott, Influence of Microstructure on the Fracture Toughness of Tempered Martensitic Steels, Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Fracture, Leoben, Austria, September 22-24, Vol 1, 174-181, 1982.

S Slatcher, The Fracture Toughness of Forging Steels, PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1983.

S Slatcher and J F Knott, The Plane Strain Fracture Strain of Steels, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Fracture, New Dehli, India, December 4-10, Vol 2, 1473-1479, 1984.

Introduction to unstable fracture

S Slatcher and J Lereim, Unstable Fracture, Chapter 9, The Fatigue Handbook - Offshore Steel Structures, Tapir, 1985.

Fracture mechanics parameters

S Slatcher and J F Knott, A Comparison of Replication and Clip-Gauge Techniques for the Determination of the Crack-Opening-Displacement, International Journal of Fracture, Vol 17, R109-114, 1981.

S Slatcher, The Accuracy of COD Values Calculated According to BS 5762, International Journal of Fracture, Vol 22, R53, 1983.

S Slatcher and J F Knott, The Dependence of the J-Crack-Opening-Displacement Relationship on Work Hardening Exponent: an Experimental Study, Materials Science and Engineering, Vol 82, 37-44, 1986.

Weakest-link models in fracture mechanics

S Slatcher, The Probabilistic Modelling of Fracture Toughness, The Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Fracture Toughness, Amsterdam, Holland, June 15-20, Vol 1, 551-561, 1986.

S Slatcher and Ø Evandt, Practical Application of the Weakest-Link Model to Fracture Toughness Problems, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol 24, No 4, 495-508, 1986.

S Slatcher, A Probabilistic Model for Lower-Shelf Fracture Toughness - Theory and Application, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol 9, No 4, 275-289, 1986.

H G Pisarski and S Slatcher, Application of a Reliability Model to the Fracture of Weld Heat Affected Zones in Steel, 12th OMAE Safety and Reliability Symposium, Glasgow, 1993.

Other probabilistic and statisitical fracture mechanics

S Slatcher, T-B Larsson and J Lereim, Sources of Scatter in Weld Metal Fracture Toughness Values, Proceedings of the International Conference on Fracture Prevention in Energy and Transport Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 28-December 1, 1983.

S Slatcher, The Probability of Failure due to Fatigue Crack Growth from a Weld Toe, Proceedings of the International Conference on Fatigue of Welded Constructions, organised by The Welding Institute, Brighton, UK, April 7-9, 1987.

S Slatcher, Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics, The Third International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Mobile Units, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1987.

S Slatcher, Estimation of Characteristic Values of Fracture Toughness, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Vol 18, No 3, 141-159, 1990.