From Charpy to Present Impact Testing

Keynote Lectures.

Historical bac kground and development of the Charpy test (L. Toth et al.).

Micromechanisms and the Charpy transition cu rve (D. Francois).

Finding G c for plastics using modified Charpy tests (J.G. Willia ms, A. Rager).

Modelling of the Charpy test as a basis for toughness evaluation (W. Schmitt et al.).

Evolution of the Charpy-V test from a quality control test t o a materials evaluation tool for structural integrity assessment (K. Wa llin et al.).

Selected Paper s. Micromechanisms. Inst rumented testing of simulated Charpy specimens made of microalloyed Mn-N i-V steel (S. Cvetkovski et al.).

On the utilization of the instrumented Charpy impact test for characterizing t he flow and fracture behavior of reactor pressure vessel steels (R. Chao uadi, A. Fabry).

Ductile-brittle transition evalu