Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, held in Tsukuba, Japan, November 1-5, 1999

* Numerous line drawings with consistent format and units allow easy comparison of the behavior of a very wide range of materials * Transmission electron microg

An extensive and comprehensive survey of one- and three-dimensional damage models for elastic and inelastic solids. The book not only provides a rich current so

Creep and Fatigue in Polymer Matrix Composites, Second Edition, updates the latest research in modeling and predicting creep and fatigue in polymer matrix compo

This book develops methods to simulate and analyze the time-dependent changes of stress and strain states in engineering structures up to the critical stage of