1. An Inverse Shielding Effect in a Periodically Layered Composite

   • Michael Ryvkin
   • Leonid Kucherov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 8

2. A Note for the Crack Problem of Functionally Graded Materials

   • Xi shu Zhao
   • Shuang yin Zhang
   • Yong li Wu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 14

3. Stress-strain state of a cracked elastic wedge under anti-plane deformation with mixed boundary conditions on its faces

   • Suren M. Mkhitaryan
   • Noune Melkoumian
   • Ben B. Lin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 315

4. Green's functions for the stress intensity factor evolution in finite cracks in orthotropic materials

   • C. Rubio-Gonzalez
   • J.J. Mason

   OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 335

5. The elastic interaction of screw dislocations and a star crack with a central hole

   • Bi-Trong Chen
   • C.T. Hu
   • Sanboh Lee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 349

6. Crack kinking under high pressure in an elastic-plastic material

   • P. Isaksson
   • P. StÅhle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 366

7. Stress intensity factors for a mixed mode center crack in an anisotropic strip

   • Haiying Huang
   • George A. Kardomateas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 381

8. On the process zone of a quasi-static growing tensile crack with power-law elastic-plastic damage*

   • J. Zhao
   • X. Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 395