The proceedings of a symposium held in Berlin in March 1996, drawing together practical expertise in measurement techniques, with typical applications ranging from in situ measurements of strain and rotation on small specimens through notched specimens and single crystal up to turbine blade shaped samples and full scale component testing. The symposium also highlighted new techniques such as speckle interferometry and image analysis.

Themes reflect the work carried out within the framework of COST-501 and of COST-505 the latter being concerned with materials for steam turbines and the first results of the concerted action COST-501/II 'High temperature materials for power engineering' initiated in 1988.

Superalloys are unique high-temperature materials used in gas turbine engines, which display excellent resistance to mechanical and chemical degradation. This book introduces the metallurgical principles which have guided their development. Suitable for graduate students and researchers, it includes exercises and additional resources at www.cambridge.org/9780521859042.

Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.

Contains 39 papers presented at the July 1997 conference. Contributors address crack-like flaws, with reports on treatment in Fitness-for- Service evaluation; review and validation of the basic failure assessment methodology; the methods for acceptance of local thin areas and their justifications; a

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.