Advances In Fracture And Damage Mechanics Iii

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (FDM), of the 2-4 September 2003, at the Liborianum in Paderborn, Germany. The proceedings cover a wide range of topics in fracture and damage mechanics and bring together researchers and engineers from academia and industry from Europe, Asia and Central and North America. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The papers are divided into four broad categories: Experimental Techniques and Measurements, Computational Methods, Stress and Failure Analysis and Processes and Mechanisms. Some emphasis is placed on three-dimensional and mixed-mode problems; such as 3D fracture criteria for the prediction of fatigue crack growth in solids under arbitrary loading conditions.