Damage and Fracture Mechanics - 6th : International Conference on Computer Aided Assessment and Control

A collection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Computer Aided Assessment and Control - Damage and Fracture Mechanics 2000.

The contributions are the work of scientists and engineers from different disciplines involved in the study and assessment of localised damage, and address fracture, fatigue and safe design with emphasis on the application of advanced techniques.

Both critical reviews of existing ideas and explorations of new ideas of research across a wide range of applications including static and dynamic loadings, and probabilistic and deterministic analysis are included.

Topics covered include fracture mechanics and fracture criteria; composite materials; dynamic fracture; fatigue; design considerations and industrial applications; failure analysis; metallic and non-metallic materials; plasticity and viscoplasticity; finite elements, boundary elements and other advanced numerical techniques.