This volume emphazises the most recent advances in fracture mechanics as specifically applied to ...
Structural Mechanics Fundamentals gives you a complete and uniform treatment of the most fundamen...
The book explores the two opposite natural trends of composite systems: (i) order and structure e...
Biological materials are bottom-up designed systems formed from billions of years of natural evol...
The Acoustic Emission (AE) technique uses ad hoc transducers to detect AE events caused by crack ...
Invited international contributions to this exciting new research field are included in this volu...
Following Volumes III and IV that dealt with the fracture mechanics of concrete emphasizing both ...
Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of energy during the fracture of stressed rock withi...