1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - vi

2. Stress, deformation and damage fields near the tip of a crack in a damaged nonlinear material

   • Tie-Jun Wang
   • Zhen-Bang Kuang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 26

3. An incremental analysis of plane strain fully plastic crack growth in strain-hardening materials under extension

   • Qing Zhou
   • Tomasz Wierzbicki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 48

4. Primary fracture propagation from circular cavities loaded in compression

   • E. J. Dzik
   • E. Z. Lajtai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 64

5. Two-parameter characterization of the near-tip stress fields for a bi-material elastic-plastic interface crack

   • Z. L. Zhang
   • M. Hauge
   • C. Thaulow

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 83

6. Rapid crack propagation in plastic water pipes: measurement of dynamic fracture resistance

   • C. J. Greenshields
   • P. S. Leevers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 95

7. Meetings calendar

   Events Pages: R2 - R2

8. Assessment of force balance method used to calculate stress intensity factors for center cracked finite strips

   • Liu Jian-zhong
   • X. R. Wu

   OriginalPaper Pages: R3 - R10

9. Repeatedly superimposed large elastic deformation

   • V. A. Levin

   OriginalPaper Pages: R11 - R15

10. The breaking crack build-up in perforated planes by uniform ring switching

    • V. M. Mirsalimov
    • E. A. Allahyarov

    OriginalPaper Pages: R17 - R21