1. Preface

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 8

2. Curriculum Vitae - Professor Pericles S. Theocaris D.Sc., D. Appl. Sc., Ph.D (h.e), F.Eng.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 14

3. Role of Crack Tip Blunting in Stress Corrosion Cracking of High-strength Steels

   • J. Toribio
   • E. Ovejero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 36

4. Weight Function for Internal Cracks from Weight Functions of Edge Cracks

   • Theo Fett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 42

5. Rectification of Oblique Cracks in Fracture Toughness Testing

   • H. Öberg
   • J. Skantz
   • F. Nilsson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 45

6. The Express Method of Determining the Fracture Toughness of Brittle Materials

   • Alexander Staroselsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 52

7. On the Cohesive Zone Model for a Finite Crack

   • Yu. G. Matvienko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 58

8. Numerical simulation of interface crack in thin films

   • A.G. Varias
   • I. Mastorakos
   • E.C. Aifantis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 207

9. Crack Path Predictions for Temperature Sensitive Materials

   • N.P. Andrianopoulos
   • S.K. Kourkoulis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 223

10. Snap-back Analysis of Fracture Evolution in Multi-Cracked Solids Using Boundary Element Method

    • Alberto Carpinteri
    • Ilaria Monetto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 241

11. The Mixed Mode Crack Problem in an Inhomogeneous Orthotropic Medium

    • Murat Ozturk
    • Fazil Erdogan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 261

12. Stress and Failure Analysis of Brittle Matrix Composites. Part I: Stress Analysis

    • E.E. Gdoutos
    • A. Giannakopoulou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 277

13. Stress and Failure Analysis of Brittle Matrix Composites. Part II: Failure Analysis

    • E.E. Gdoutos
    • A. Giannakopoulou
    • D.A. Zacharopoulos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 291

14. Fracture initiation at an elastic crack tip: A computational implementation of the T-criterion

    • Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 311

15. Nonplanar Interfacial Cracks in Anisotropic Bimaterials

    • M.A. Kattis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 327

16. Crack-tip Caustics at a bi-Material Interface

    • G.A. Papadopoulos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 342

17. Evaluation of the Three-Dimensional Region Around a Crack Tip by Caustics

    • D.D. Raftopoulos
    • Zugang Huang
    • E.E. Gdoutos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 350

18. Nondestructive Techniques for Studying Fracture Processes in Concrete

    • S.P. Shah
    • S. Choi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 359

19. Bonded Cracked Half Planes with an Interface and an Interesting Crack

    • Efstathios E. Theotokoglou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 367

20. U-Notched Dionysos-Pentelicon Marble Beams in Three Point Bending: The Effect of Nonlinearity, Anisotropy and Microstructure

    • S.K. Kourkoulis
    • G.E. Exadaktylos
    • I. Vardoulakis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 369 - 392

21. Vibrations of Layered Beams under Conditions of Damaging and Slipping Interfaces

    • Christoph Adam
    • Franz Ziegler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 406