Advances in Fracture and Damage Mechanics IX

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Over 200 papers, edited from their original presentation, at the 9th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics, present findings on fracture and damage mechanics in such contexts as corrosion, non-linear problems, residual stress, ceramics, risk analysis, computer modeling methods, and microsctructural and multi-scale aspects. A sampling of individual papers turns up evaluating the strength of bending fatigue in a notched structural steel sheet, the numerical investigation of penetration performance of segmented rod projectiles with various connectors, image-based displacement vector estimation methods around the fatigue crack tip, using neural networks to evaluate the reliability of structures, fatigue properties of dynamically loaded self-compacting concrete, and fatigue traffic loading for highway bridges in China.