  Levine defined the rational algebraic knot concordance group and proved that
each nontrivial element is of order two, of order four, or of infinite order.
The determination of the order of an element depends on a p-adic analysis for
all primes p. Here we develop effective means to determine the order of any
element that is in the image of the integral algebraic concordance group by
restricting the set of primes that need to be considered and by finding simple
tests that often avoid p-adic considerations. The paper includes an outline of
how the results apply to give the determination of the algebraic orders of all
2,977 prime knots of 12 or fewer crossings. The paper also includes a short
expository account of the necessary background in p-adic numbers and Witt
groups of bilinear forms.
