1. Spacing of Fractures in a Multilayer at Fracture Saturation

   • Taixu Bai
   • David D. Pollard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 28

2. Optimization of Light Weight Armor Using Experimental Data

   • G. Ben-Dor
   • A. Dubinsky
   • T. Elperin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 33

3. Scattering of SH Waves by an Arc-Shaped Crack between a Cylindrical Piezoelectric Inclusion and Matrix-II: Far Fields

   • Wang Xuyue
   • Yu Shouwen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 40

4. Distribution of dislocations at a mode I crack tip and their shielding effect

   • Jianqiao Chen
   • Seiichiro Kitaoka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 320

5. Fast and accurate numerical solution to an elastostatic problem involving ten thousand randomly oriented cracks

   • Johan Helsing

   OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 327

6. A numerical study of the elastic stress field arising from sharp and blunt V-notches in a SENT-specimen

   • Morten Strandberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 342

7. Multiple crack problem in nonhomogeneous composite materials subjected to dynamic anti-plane shearing

   • B.L. Wang
   • J.C. Han
   • S.Y. Du

   OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 353

8. Effects of temperature gradients on crack characterisation under thermal-mechanical loading conditions

   • Huang Yuan
   • Dietmar Kalkhof

   OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 377

9. Application of viscoelastic fracture criteria to progressive crack propagation in polymer matrix composites

   • D. Gamby
   • J. Chaoufi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 399

10. Energy analysis on fracture of ferroelectric ceramics

    • D.N. Fang
    • B. Liu
    • K.C. Hwang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 408