This volume focuses on the development and analysis of mathematical models of fracture phenomena.

From time to time the International Journal of Fracture has presented matters thought to be of special interest to its readers. In previous special issues (Dece

Dynamic Fracture of Piezoelectric Materials focuses on the Boundary Integral Equation Method as an efficient computational tool. The presentation of the theoret

Dynamic fracture in solids has attracted much attention for over a century from engineers as well as physicists due both to its technological interest and to in

In this book a new phenomenological approach to brittle medium fracture initiation under shock pulses is developped. It provides an opportunity to estimate frac