SELECTED PUBLICATIONS for R

Selected publications for R. O. Ritchie (1999-2001)

R. O. Ritchie, "Aspects of Fatigue-Crack Growth in Intermetallic Alloys", Transactions of the Nonferrous Metals Society of China,vol. 9, Suppl. 1, June 1999, pp. 214-227.
R. O. Ritchie, B. L. Boyce, J. P. Campbell, O. Roder, A. W. Thompson, and W. W. Milligan, "Thresholds for High-Cycle Fatigue in a Turbine Engine Ti-6Al-4V Alloy", International Journal of Fatigue, vol. 21 (7), 1999, pp. 653-662.
S. A. Padula, II, A. Shyam, R. O. Ritchie, and W. W. Milligan, "High Frequency Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior of a Nickel-Base Turbine Disk Alloy", International Journal of Fatigue, vol. 21 (7), 1999, pp. 725-731.
T. L. Becker, R. M. Cannon, and R. O. Ritchie, "A Statistical RKR Fracture Model for the Brittle Fracture of Functionally Graded Materials", Materials Science Forum, vol. 308-311, 1999, pp. 957-962.
C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, "Mechanisms for Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Propagation in a Bulk Metallic Glass," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 30A (8), July 1999, pp. 1739-1753.
R. O. Ritchie, D. L. Davidson, B. L. Boyce, J. P. Campbell, and O. Roder, "High-Cycle Fatigue of Ti-6Al-4V", Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, vol. 22, July 1999, pp. 621-631.
B. L. Boyce, J. P. Campbell, and O. Roder, A. W. Thompson, and R. O. Ritchie,, "Aspects of High-Cycle Fatigue Performance in a Ti-6Al-4V Alloy", in Fatigue Behavior of Titanium Alloys, R. R. Boyer, D. Eylon, and G. Lütjering, eds., TMS, Warrendale, 1999, pp. 3-13.
J. J. Kruzic, J. P. Campbell, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Gamma-Based Titanium Aluminide Alloys at Large and Small Crack Sizes", in High Temperature Ordered Intermetallic Alloys VIII, E.P.George, M.J.Mills, and M.Yamaguchi, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 552, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999, pp. 1-6.
C. J. Gilbert, J. W. Ager, III, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, "Mechanism for Light Emission during Fracture of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass: Temperature Measurements in Air and Nitrogen", in Bulk Metallic Glasses, W. L. Johnson, A. Inoue, and C. T. Liu, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 554, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999, pp. 191-196.
C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue in a Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glass", in Bulk Metallic Glasses, W. L. Johnson, A. Inoue, and C. T. Liu, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 554, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999, pp. 343-354.
A. L. McKelvey and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Growth in the Superelastic Endovascular Stent Material Nitinol", in Tissue Engineering, E. Chen, C. Laurencin, M. Marcolongo, and G. Picciolo, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 550, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.
J. M. McNaney, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "Effect of Viscous Grain Bridging on Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Growth in Monolithic Ceramics at Elevated Temperatures", Acta Materialia, vol. 47 (9), July 1999, pp. 2809-2819.
A. L. McKelvey and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Nitinol, a Shape-Memory and Superelastic Endovascular Stent Material", Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, vol. 47, Dec., 1999, pp. 301-308.
L. Gordon, F. A. Dysarz, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, A. Mok, R. O. Ritchie, and S. Rabinowitz: "Flexor Tendon Repair using a Stainless Steel External Splint: Biomechanical Study on Human Cadaver Tendons," Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), 1999, vol.24B (6), pp. 654-657.
V. Schroeder, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "Effect of Aqueous Environment on Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in a Zr-Based Bulk Amorphous Metal", Scripta Materialia, vol. 49 (9), April 1999, pp. 1057-1061.
R. O. Ritchie, "Small-Crack Growth and the Fatigue of Traditional and Advanced Materials", in Fatigue '99, Proceedings of the Seventh International Fatigue Congress, X.-R. Wu and Z. G. Wang, eds., Higher Education Press, Beijing, China/EMAS, Warley, U.K., vol. 1, 1999, pp. 1-14.
R. O. Ritchie, "The Importance of Small Crack Effects in the Microstructural Development of Advanced Materials", in Small Fatigue Cracks: Mechanics, Mechanisms and Applications, K. S. Ravichandran, R. O. Ritchie, and Y. Murakami, eds., Elsevier, Oxford, U.K. 1999, pp. 233-246.
C. J. Gilbert, Y. S. Han, D. K. Kim, and R. O. Ritchie, "Small Crack Effects in Ceramic Materials", in Small Fatigue Cracks: Mechanics, Mechanisms and Applications, K. S. Ravichandran, R. O. Ritchie, and Y. Murakami, eds., Elsevier, Oxford, U.K. 1999, p. 283-288.

C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue of Amorphous Metals", in Progress in Mechanical Behaviour of Materials – ICM-8, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, F. Ellyin and J. W. Provan, eds., Pergamon Press, Oxford, U.K., Vol. I, 1999, pp. 14-18.

J. J. Kruzic, J. P. Campbell, A. L. McKelvey, H. Choe, and R. O. Ritchie, "The Contrasting Role of Microstructure in Influencing Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Growth in g-Based Titanium Aluminides at Large and Small Crack Sizes", in Gamma Titanium Aluminides 1999, Y.-W. Kim, D. M. Dimiduk, and M. H. Loretto, eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1999, pp. 495-507.
J. P. Campbell and R. O. Ritchie, "Mixed-Mode Fatigue-Crack Growth Thresholds in Bimodal Ti-6Al-4V", Scripta Materialia, vol. 41 (10), Oct. 1999, pp. 1067-1071.
R. O. Ritchie, C. J. Gilbert, and V. Schroeder, "Fracture and Fatigue Behavior in Advanced Materials: Bulk Metallics Glasses", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Technology in Experimental Mechanics (ATEM’99), The Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, vol. 1, 1999, pp. 9-16.
R. O. Ritchie, "Mechanisms of Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Ductile and Brittle Solids", International Journal of Fracture, vol. 100 (1), 1999, 55-83.
R. O. Ritchie, C. J. Gilbert, and J. M. McNaney, "Mechanics and Mechanisms of Fatigue Damage and Crack Growth in Advanced Materials", International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 37 (1-2), Jan. 2000, pp. 311-329.

A. L. McKelvey and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Temperature Dependence of the Superelastic Strength and the Prediction of the Theoretical Uniaxial Transformation Strain in Nitinol, Philosophical Magazine, vol. 80 (8), 2000, pp. 1759-1768.

T. L. Becker, R. M. Cannon, and R. O. Ritchie, "An Approximate Method for Residual Stress Calculation in Functionally Graded Materials", Mechanics of Materials, vol. 32 (2), Feb. 2000, pp. 85-97.

C. J. Gilbert, Y. S. Han, D. K. Kim, and R. O. Ritchie, "Anomalous Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior of Small Cracks in Monolithic Grain-Bridging Ceramics," Ceramics International, vol. 26, 2000, pp. 721-725.

C. J. Gilbert, D. R. Bloyer, M. W. Barsoum, T. El-Raghy, A. P. Tomsia, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Growth and Fracture Properties of Course- and Fine-Grained Ti₃SiC₂Ceramic", Scripta Materialia, vol. 42 (8), April 2000, pp. 761-767.

R. O. Ritchie, V. Schroeder, and C. J. Gilbert, "Fracture, Fatigue and Environmentally-Assisted Failure of Zr-Based Bulk Amorphous Metal", Journal of Intermetallics, vol. 8 (5-6), 2000, pp. 469-475.
A. L. McKelvey, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Temperature Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Growth Behavior of an XD Gamma-Based Titanium Aluminide Intermetallic Alloy," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 31A (5), May 2000, pp. 1413-1423.
J. O. Peters, O. Roder, B. L. Boyce, A. W. Thompson, and R. O. Ritchie, "Role of Foreign Object Damage on Thresholds for High-Cycle Fatigue in Ti-6Al-4V", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 31A (6), June 2000, pp. 1571-1583.

D. Chen, C. J. Gilbert, X. F. Zhang, and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Temperature Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Growth Behavior in an In Situ Toughened Silicon Carbide Ceramic", Acta Materialia, vol. 48 (3), Feb. 2000, pp. 659-674.
A. Tatschl, C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, R. Pippan, and R. O. Ritchie, "Stereo-Photogrammetric Investigation of Overload and Cyclic Fatigue Fracture Surface Morphologies in a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass", Journal of Materials Research, vol. 15 (4), April 2000, pp. 898-903.
D. Chen, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "On the In Situ Measurement of Crack-Growth Rates during Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Silicon Carbide Ceramics at Elevated Temperatures", ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, vol. 28 (4), July 2000, pp. 236-241.
D. Chen, X. F. Zhang, and R. O. Ritchie, "Effects of Grain-Boundary Structure on the Strength, Toughness and Cyclic Fatigue Properties of a Monolithic Silicon Carbide", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 85 (8), August 2000, pp. 2079-2081.

J. O. Peters and R. O. Ritchie, "Influence of Foreign Object Damage on Crack Initiation and Early Fatigue-Crack Growth in Ti-6Al-4V", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 67 (3), Oct. 2000, pp. 193-207.
J. P. Campbell and R. O. Ritchie, "Mixed-Mode, High-Cycle Fatigue-Crack Growth Thresholds in Ti-6Al-4V: Part I – A Comparison of Large and Small Crack Behavior", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 67 (3), Oct. 2000, pp. 209-227.
J. P. Campbell and R. O. Ritchie, "Mixed-Mode, High-Cycle Fatigue-Crack Growth Thresholds in Ti-6Al-4V: Part II – Quantification of Crack-Tip Shielding", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 67 (3), Oct. 2000, pp. 229-249.
D. Chen, M. E. Sixta, X. F. Zhang, L. C. De Jonghe, and R. O. Ritchie, "Role of the Grain-Boundary Phase on the Elevated-Temperature Strength, Toughness, Fatigue and Creep Resistance of Silicon Carbide Sintered with Al, B and C", Acta Materialia, vol. 48 (18/19), Dec. 2000, pp. 4599-4608.
B. Asoo, J. M. McNaney, Y. Mitamura, and R. O. Ritchie, "Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Sapphire in Air and Simulated Physiological Environments", Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, vol. 52, 2000, pp. 488-491.
D. Chen, X.-F. Zhang, and R. O. Ritchie, "Mechanisms of High-Temperature Fatigue and Fracture in Silicon Carbide Ceramics", in Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of High Temperature Materials, P. K. Liaw and M. Huang, eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 2000, pp. 1-8.
H. Choe, D. Chen, J. Schneibel, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Growth Behavior in Mo-12Si-8.5B Intermetallics at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures", in Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of High Temperature Materials, P. K. Liaw and M. Huang, eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 2000, pp. 17-24.
K. Shirato, D. Chen, M. W. Barsoum, T. El-Raghy, and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Temperature Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Growth in Monolithic Ti₃SiC₂ Ceramics", in Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of High Temperature Materials, P. K. Liaw and M. Huang, eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 2000, pp. 71-75.
B. L. Boyce and R. O. Ritchie, "Effect of Load Ratio and Maximum Stress Intensity on the Fatigue Threshold in Ti-6Al-4V", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 68, 2001, pp. 129-147.
R. O. Ritchie and J. O. Peters, "Small Fatigue Cracks: Mechanics, Mechanisms and Engineering Applications", Materials Transactions, vol. 42 (1), 2001, pp. 58-67.
V. V. Panasyuk, O. Ye Andreykiv, R. O. Ritchie, and O. I. Darchuk, "Estimation of the Effects of Plasticity and Resulting Crack Closure during Small Fatigue-Crack Growth", International Journal of Fracture, vol. 107 (2), 2001, pp. 99-115.
J. P. Campbell and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Cycle Fatigue in Bimodal and Lamellar Ti-6Al-4V: Mixed-Mode Crack-Growth Thresholds", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 32A (3), March 2001, pp. 497-503.
A. L. McKelvey and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Growth Behavior in the Superelastic and Shape-Memory Material Nitinol", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 32A (3A), Mid March 2001, pp. 731-743.
Yoon Soo Han, Do Kyung Kim, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Silicon Carbide: Long- and Small-Crack Behavior", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 84 (3), March 2001, pp. 551-554.
B. G. Demczyk, J. Cumings, A. Zettl, and R. O. Ritchie, "Structure of Boron Nitride Nanotubes", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 78 (18), April 30, 2001, pp. 2772-2774.
T. L. Becker, Jr., R. M. Cannon, and R. O. Ritchie, "Finite Crack Kinking and T-Stresses in Functionally Graded Materials", International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 38 (32-33), Aug. 2001, pp. 5545-5563.
H. Choe, D. Chen, J. H. Schneibel, and R. O. Ritchie, "Ambient to High Temperature Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Propagation in a Mo-12Si-8.5B Intermetallic", Journal of Intermetallics, vol. 9 (4), 2001, pp. 319-329.
J. O. Peters, B. L. Boyce, X. Chen, J. M. McNaney, J. W. Hutchinson, and R. O. Ritchie, "Role of Residual Stresses on High-Cycle Fatigue of Impact-Damaged Ti-6Al-4V: Surface vs. Subsurface Crack Initiation", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Fatigue in the Very High Cycle Regime, S. E. Stanzl-Tschegg and H. M. Mayer, eds., BOKU, Vienna, Austria, 2001, pp. 129-140.
B. L. Boyce, X. Chen, J. W. Hutchinson, and R. O. Ritchie, "The Residual Stress State due to a Spherical Hard-Body Impact", Mechanics of Materials, vol. 33 (8), Aug. 2001, pp. 441-454.
V. Schroeder, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "A Comparison of the Mechanisms of Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in a Zr-Based Bulk Amorphous Metal in Air and an Aqueous Chloride Solution", Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. A317, Oct. 2001, pp. 145-152.
C. L. Muhlstein, S. B. Brown and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Cycle Fatigue and Durability of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films in Ambient Air", Journal of Sensors and Actuators, Sept. 2001.
C. L. Muhlstein, S. Brown and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Cycle Fatigue of Single Crystal Silicon Thin Films", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Dec. 2001.
D. Chen, K. Shirato, M. W. Barsoum, T. El-Raghy, and R. O. Ritchie, "Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Growth and Fracture Properties in Ti₃SiC₂ Ceramics at Elevated Temperatures", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 84 (11), Nov. 2001.
C. L. Muhlstein, S. B. Brown and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Cycle Fatigue of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films in Laboratory Air", in Materials Science of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Devices III, MRS Symposium Proceedings, M. deBoer, M. Judy, H. Kahn, and S. M. Spearing, eds., vol. 657, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001, pp. EE5.8.1-6.
J. J. Kruzic, J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon, and R. O. Ritchie, "Time-Dependent Debonding of Aluminum-Alumina Interfaces under Cyclic and Static Loading", in Structure-Property Relationships of Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces, MRS Symposium Proceedings, C. B. Carter, X. Pan, K. Sickafus, H. L. Tuller, and T. Wood, eds., vol. 654, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001.
R. K. Nalla, J. P. Campbell, and R. O. Ritchie, "Mixed-Mode High-Cycle Fatigue Thresholds in Ti-6Al-4V: A Comparison of Large and Small Crack Behavior" in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture, Lisbon, Portugal, M. de Freitas, ed., 2001.
W. Cheng, I. Finnie, and R. O. Ritchie, "Residual Stress Measurement on Pyrolytic Carbon-Coated Graphite Leaflets for Cardiac Valve Prostheses", Proceedings of the 2001 SEM Annual Conference, Portland, OR, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Bethel, CN, 2001.