Papers of the June 1990 meeting held in Atlanta, Ga. The first volume (47 papers) concentrates on experimental and theoretical aspects of fracture mechanics. Volume two (26 papers) covers numerical and computational approaches. Topics include: ductile fracture, high-temperature and time-dependent fr

Papers from the 21st National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, held in Annapolis, Md., June 1988, present new work in elastic-plastic fracture, dynamic fracture, transition fracture in steels, micromechanical aspects of the fracture process, computational mechanics, fracture mechanics testing, and a

The proceedings of the 23rd National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, held in College Station, Texas, June 1991, present a broad overview of the current state of the art in fracture mechanics research. Following the Swerdlow Lecture (Structural Problems in Search of Fracture Mechanics Solutions by

Covering the whole of Asia and the Pacific region, this text provides both an analytic overview and specific data for each of the 60 countries. Introductory chapters cover regional issues, including: a regional review with the year's trends, developments and key events' analysis of the threat of terrorism in the region; the effects of deflation on the economy; the water crisis and its impact on the poor; and the successes and failures of micro-credit in the region.

Covering a wide variety of topics in dynamic fracture mechanics, this volume presents state-of-the-art experimental techniques and theoretical analysis on dynamic fracture in standard and exotic materials. Written by world renowned researchers, this valuable compendium contains eleven chapters on crack initiation, crack propagation, crack arrest, crack-stress wave interactions, and experimental, analytical and numerical methods in dynamic fracture mechanics. Contents: Modeling Dynamic Fracture Using Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations (H-J Gao & M J Buehler); Dynamic Crack Initiation Toughness (D Rittel); The Dynamics of Rapidly Moving Tensile Cracks in Brittle Amorphous Material (J Fineberg); Optical Methods for Dynamic Fracture Mechanics (H V Tippur); On the Use of Strain Gages in Dynamic Fracture (V Parameswaran & A Shukla); Dynamic and Crack Arrest Fracture Toughness (R E Link & R Chona); Dynamic Fracture in Graded Materials (A Shukla & N Jain); Dynamic Fracture Initiation Toughness at Elevated Temperatures with Application to the New Generation of Titanium Aluminides Alloys (M Shazly et al.); Dynamic Fracture of Nanocomposite Materials (A Shukla et al.). Readership: Researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in fracture mechanics and materials science.