Fracture, Plastic Flow, and Structural Integrity: Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Organized by the Technical Advisory Group in Structural Integrity of Nuclear Plant, April 1999

The objectives of the symposium were to provide an overview of progress in understanding materials behavior relevant to structural integrity assessments, covering mechanisms of flow and fracture, effects of neutron irradiation, reheat cracking, weld quality and inspection issues, fracture toughness characterization, crack arrest, materials behavior under dynamic loading and local approach modeling of the ductile-brittle transition This volume brings together the papers presented at the 7th Symposium organised by the Technical Advisory Group on Structural Integrity of Nuclear Plant (TAGS!) which was held at the TWI Conference Centre, Great Abington, UK on 29 April 1999. The Symposium, which marked 25 years of TAGSI and its predecessor, the Light Water Reactor Study Group (LWRSG), was dedicated to Sir Alan Cottrell FREng, FRS, whose impact on the fields of integrity, reliability and safety of engineering structures and components has been second to none.