SELECTED PUBLICATIONS for R. O. Ritchie (1996-98)

• R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue and Fracture of Pyrolytic Carbon: A Damage-Tolerant Approach to Structural Integrity and Life Prediction in "Ceramic" Heart-Valve Prostheses", Journal of Heart Valve Disease, vol. 5, Suppl. 1, 1996, pp. S9-31.
• R. O. Ritchie, "On the Interaction of Cracks with Bimaterial Interfaces," Physiochemical Mechanics of Materials, vol. 32, 1996, pp. 119-32.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. Cao, W. J. MoberlyChan, L. C. DeJonghe, and R. O. Ritchie, "Cyclic Fatigue and Resistance-Curve Behavior of an In Situ Toughened Silicon Carbide with Al-B-C Additions", Acta Materialia, vol. 44, 1996, pp. 3199-214.
• C. D. Bencher, L. Murugesh, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "Phase Transformations in an In Situ Nb-Reinforced Nb₃Al Intermetallic Composite," Journal of Intermetallics, vol. 4, 1996, pp. 23-29.
• J. J. Cao, W. J. MoberlyChan, L. C. DeJonghe, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "In Situ Toughened Silicon Carbide with Al-B-C Additions", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 79, 1996, pp. 461-69.
• K. Badrinarayanan, A. L. McKelvey, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Growth in Ductile-Phase Toughened Molybdenum Disilicide: Effects of Niobium Wire vs. Particulate Reinforcements," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 27, 1996, pp. 3781-92.
• D. R. Bloyer, K. T. Venkateswara Rao and R. O. Ritchie, "Resistance-Curve Toughening in Ductile/Brittle Layered Structures: Behavior in Nb/Nb₃Al Laminates," Materials Science and Engineering A, vol A216, 1996, pp. 80-90.
• R. O. Ritchie and C. J. Gilbert, "Resistance to Cyclic Fatigue of Silicon Carbide Ceramics at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures", in Anales de la Asociación Química Argentina, vol. 83, 1996, pp. 307-15.
• J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Growth along Aluminum/Alumina Interfaces," Acta Materialia, vol. 44, 1996, pp. 4713-28.
• R. O. Ritchie, "Small Cracks and High-Cycle Fatigue", in Proceedings of the ASME Aerospace Division, J. C. I. Chang, J. Coulter, D. Brei, D. Martinez, W. Hg, and P. P. Freidmann, eds., AMD-Vol. 52, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, 1996, pp. 321-33.
• J. M. McNaney, R. Havens, and R. O. Ritchie, "Elastic Compliance of the Compact-Tension Specimen Comprising Two Linear-Elastic Materials Bonded with a Thin Layer," ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 28-35.
• C. J. Gilbert, R. H. Dauskardt, and R. O. Ritchie, "Microstructural Mechanisms of Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Grain-Bridging Ceramics," Ceramics International, vol. 23, 1997, pp. 413-18.
• T. L. Becker, Jr., J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon and R. O. Ritchie, "Limitations on the Use of the Mixed-Mode Delaminating Beam Test Specimen: Effect of the Size of the Region of K-Dominance," Mechanics of Materials, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 291-308.
• R. O. Ritchie and K. T. Venkateswara Rao, "Fatigue of Ceramics and Intermetallics: Application to Damage Tolerance and Life Prediction in Cyclically-Loaded Brittle Materials," in Reliability Assessment of Cyclically Loaded Engineering Structures, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1997, pp. 377-403.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. J. Cao, L. C. DeJonghe, and R. O. Ritchie, "Resistance-Curve Behavior in Silicon Carbide: Small versus Long Cracks", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 80, 1997, pp. 2253-61.
• T. L. Becker, Jr., J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon and R. O. Ritchie, "Effects of the Limited Region of K-Dominance in the Mixed-Mode Delaminating Beam Test Specimen," Ceramic Transactions, vol. 77, 1997, pp. 149-56.
• J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon and R. O. Ritchie, "Effects of Plasticity on the Toughness and Fatigue Crack Propagation of Metal/Ceramic Interfaces," Ceramic Transactions, vol. 77, 1997, pp. 157-64.
• C. J. Gilbert and R. O. Ritchie, "Mechanisms of Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation in a Fine-Grained Alumina Ceramic: Role of Crack Closure", Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, vol. 20, 1997, pp. 1453-66.
• J. P. Campbell, J. J. Kruzic, S. Lillibridge, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Growth of Small Fatigue Cracks in g-Based Titanium Aluminides," Scripta Materialia, vol. 37, 1997, pp. 707-12.
• C. J. Gilbert, R. O. Ritchie, and W. L. Johnson, "Fracture Toughness and Fatigue-Crack Propagation in a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 71, 1997, pp. 476-78.
• J. J. Mason and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue Crack Growth Resistance in SiC Particulate and Whisker Reinforced P/M 2124 Aluminum Matrix Composites," Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. A231, 1997, pp. 170-82.
• A. L. McKelvey, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Anomalous Temperature Dependence of Fatigue-Crack Growth in g-Based Titanium Aluminides," Scripta Materialia, vol. 37, 1997, pp. 1797-1803.
• M.-H. Hong, J, M. McNaney, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Growth of Small Cracks in a Directionally-Solidified Nickel Aluminide with Molybdenum Additions," Scripta Materialia, vol. 38, 1997, pp. 245-51.
• A. Kant, M. D. Drory, N. R. Moody, W. J. MoberlyChan, J. W. Ager III, and R. O. Ritchie, "Microstructural Effects on the Hardness, Elastic Modulus and Fracture Toughness of CVD Diamond," in Thin Films – Stresses and Mechanical Properties VII, R. C. Cammarata, et al., and W. C. Oliver, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 505, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997.
• D. R. Bloyer, R. O. Ritchie, and K. T. Venkateswara Rao, "Laminated Nb/Nb₃Al Composites: Effect of Layer Thickness on Fatigue and Fracture Behavior," Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. A239-240, 1997, pp. 393-98.
• J. P. Campbell, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Role of Microstructure in Fatigue-Crack Growth of g-Based Titanium Aluminides," Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. A239-240, 1997, pp. 722-28.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. M. Lippmann, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Amorphous Metal: Stress/Life and Crack-Growth Behavior," Scripta Materialia, vol. 38, 1998, pp. 537-42.
• L. Gordon, M. Tolar, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, R. O. Ritchie, S. Rabinowitz and R. P. Lamb: "Flexor Tendon Repair using a Stainless Steel Internal Anchor: Biomechanical Study on Human Cadaver Tendons," Journal of Hand and Microsurgery, vol. 23B, 1998, pp. 37-40.
• S. Chen, R. O. Ritchie, A. Zettl, and U. Dahmen, "In Situ Bending Deformation of Carbon Nanotubes in a HVEM," Proceedings of the 14^th International Congress on Electron Microscopy, Cancun, Mexico, Aug.-Sept., 1998.
• C. J. Gilbert and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Quantification of the Bridging Tractions during Subcritical Crack Growth under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading in a Grain-Bridging Silicon Carbide Ceramic", Acta Materialia, vol. 46, 1998, pp. 609-16.