This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Nonlinear Analysis of Fracture', held in Cambridge from 3rd to 7th Septem ber 1995. Its objec

The Symposium remained focussed on issues of practical significance for fracture phenomena, with concentration on aspects that are still imperfectly understood.

New developments in the applications of fracture mechanics to engineering problems have taken place in the last years. Composite materials have extensively been

This book started its life as a series of lectures given by the second author from the 1970’s onwards to students in their third and fourth years in the Depar

In this volume a survey of the most relevant nonlinear crack models is provided, with the purpose of analyzing the nonlinear mechanical effects occurring at the