Advances in Fracture and Damage Mechanics XIII

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 13th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (FDM 2014), September 23-25, 2014, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal.Keyword: Failure analysis, Fracture Mechanics, Composites, Multiscale Modelling, Micromechnanics, Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Tolerance, Corrosion, Creep, Non-linear problems, Dynamic Fracture, Residual Stress, Environmental effects, Crack Propagation, Metallic and Concrete Materials, Probabilistic Aspects, Computer Modelling Methods (Finite Elements, Boundary Elements and Meshless), Microstructural and Multiscale AspectsThe conference is a forum for trading theoretical, computational, and experimental research results in structural integrity and durability as well as in fracture and damage mechanics.

The 120 papers discuss such topics as round timber bolted joints with steel plates under static and cyclic loading, the hydrogen-assisted rolling-contact fatigue of wind turbine bearings, the intersection of an interface crack front with a free edge, an innovative slip-form system for concrete pylons, and the numerical analysis of the strength of jointed rock under hydrodynamic pressure.- Computational physics- Engineering- Materials science- Mechanical engineering- Research