| Preface | |
| Scientific Committee | |
| The scaling laws and renormalization group in the mechanics and micromechanics of fracture | p. 3 |
| Multifractal nature of material microstructure and size effects on nominal tensile strength | p. 21 |
| Tension softening diagrams and longitudinally reinforced beams | p. 35 |
| The extended cohesive crack | p. 51 |
| On the cohesive crack model in mixed-mode conditions | p. 66 |
| Fracture mechanism of fiber reinforced quasi brittle matrix composites | p. 83 |
| Fracture and flexible behaviour in strain-hardening cementitious composites | p. 101 |
| Strength and toughness analysis of fibre reinforced brittle matrix composites | p. 116 |
| Micromechanical parameters, fracture processes and application of fiber reinforced concrete | p. 131 |
| Micromechanics of non-linear macroscopic deformation and fracture of rocks under differential compression | p. 151 |
| Process-zone effect on the failure of rock-like materials | p. 168 |
| Anisotropic crack damage development in rock under cyclic triaxial loading: an acoustic emission and elastic wave velocity study | p. 181 |
| On the theoretical toughness and strength of ceramic composites | p. 197 |
| Crack growth in a sintered [actual symbol not reproducible] composite subjected to monotonic and cyclic loading | p. 212 |
| Deformation and fracture in the frontal process zone and the crack-face contact region of a polycrystalline graphite | p. 227 |
| Continuum methods for localised failure | p. 249 |
| Compressive and shear failure modes in brittle materials | p. 264 |
| A continuum theory for random packings of elastic spheres | p. 285 |
| Topology-controlled modeling of linear and nonlinear 3D crack propagation in geo-materials | p. 301 |
| Topological considerations for 3D computational fracture mechanics | p. 319 |
| Fracture analysis of concrete based on the discrete crack model by the boundary element method | p. 335 |
| Fracture process zone associated with ceramic fracture - an experimental-numerical analysis | p. 348 |
| On the micromechanics and fracture of ceramics | p. 361 |
| On wave propagation in two-phase materials with interface defects | p. 376 |
| Thermomechanics and micromechanics-based continuum theory for localization phenomena | p. 391 |
| Micromechanical analysis and experimental verification of boundary rotation effects in uniaxial tension tests on concrete | p. 406 |
| Continuum damage due to interacting propagating microcracks: new nonlocal model and localization analysis | p. 423 |
| Thermodynamics of damage evolution in discretized systems | p. 438 |
| Recent research on the cohesive zone description of an elastic softening material | p. 450 |
| Analysis of localized failure in elastoplastic solids | p. 464 |
| Offshore concrete platforms in Norway: materials and static analyses | p. 481 |
| Application of fracture mechanics parameters to the design and lifetime prediction of ceramic components | p. 495 |
| Numerical simulations of crack bifurcation in the chip forming cutting process in rock | p. 505 |
| Anchorage and bond properties in concrete | p. 525 |
| Boundary element analysis of transformation toughening test specimens | p. 547 |
| Continuum models for simulation of excavation in regular jointed rock structures | p. 552 |
| Short crack fatigue in ZTC | p. 559 |
| Simple application of fictitious crack model in reinforced concrete beams | p. 564 |
| A micromechanics-based continuum theory for rock masses containing fracturing joints | p. 569 |
| Author index | p. 575 |
| Subject index | p. 577 |
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