  The dispersion in the entire Brillouin zone and the temperature dependence
(right up to the melting temperature) of the anharmonic frequency shift and
phonon damping in a number of fcc metals is investigated on the basis of
microscopic calculations. It is found that the anharmonic effects depend
sharply on the wave vector in the directions $\Gamma$-X, X-W, and $\Gamma$-L
and, in contrast to bcc metals, the magnitude of the effects is not due to the
softness of the initial phonon spectrum. It is shown that the relative
frequency shifts and the phonon damping near melting do not exceed 10-20%. The
relative role of various anharmonic processes is examined, and the relation
between the results obtained and existing experimental data is discussed.
