Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of energy during the fracture of stressed rock withi...

Biological materials are bottom-up designed systems formed from billions of years of natural evol...

The Acoustic Emission (AE) technique uses ad hoc transducers to detect AE events caused by crack ...

In this volume on the mechanics of fracture of Portland cement concrete, the general theme is the...

In this volume a survey of the most relevant nonlinear crackmodels is provided, with the purpos...

Following Volumes III and IV that dealt with the fracture mechanics of concrete emphasizing both ...

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics& Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volum...

This book presents the relevant consequences of recently discovered and interdisciplinary phenome...

The book is characterized by the illustration of cases of fractal, self-similar and multi-scale s...

This book presents a complete and unified treatment of the fundamental themes of structural me...

This book presents a complete and unified treatment of the fundamental themes of structural me...