Books in the Advances in Damage Mechanics series

Presents the fundamental elements and theories in fracture and damage analysis. This book also presents the research and advances in the development of the analytical and practical approaches required to assess the materials damage and the durability of structures.

The authors investigate various integral equations for multiple crack problems in plane elasticity. Formulation of the problems is based on relevant elementary solutions in which the complex variable function method is used.

Bringing together both fatigue researchers and engineers to review recent advances in the development of methods and approaches to predict fatigue performance of materials and structures, this book contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Materials.