Recent Trends in Fracture and Damage Mechanics

Part I Historical Perspective



Meinhard Kuna: Physics and Engineering at the Crack Tip - A Retrospective

Experimental and Numerical Fracture Mechanics - An Individually Dyed History

Part II Applications

Fracture Mechanics Assessment of Welded Components at Static Loading

Application of Fracture Mechanics for the Life Prediction of Critical
Rotating Parts for Aero Engines

Consideration of Fatigue Crack Growth Aspects in the Design and
Assessment of Railway Axles

Part III Fracture Testing

Assessment of Material Properties by Means of the Small Punch Test

Determination of Fracture Mechanics Parameters for Cast Iron Materials under Static, Dynamic and Cyclic Loading

On the Development of Experimental Methods for the Determination of Fracture Mechanical Parameters of Ceramics

Transition from Flat to Slant Fracture in Ductile Materials

Part IV Smart Materials

Interaction of Cracks and Domain Structures in Thin Ferroelectric Films

Modeling Approaches to Predict Damage Evolution and Life Time of Brittle Ferroelectrics

Numerical Analysis of Interface Cracks in Layered Piezoelectric Solids

Part V Analytical Mechanics

Crack-Tip Fields of a Crack Impinging upon the Yielding/Debonding Slippage in Anisotropic Body

On Conservation Laws and Reciprocity in Configurational Mechanics

Part VI Local Approach to Fracture



A Model for Predicting Fracture Toughness and Scatter in Thermally Embrittled Steels

Micromechanical-Based Models for Describing Damage of Ferritic Steels

Recent Trends in the Development of the Gurson's Model