Advances in Fracture Research: Honour and Plenary Lectures Presented at the 11th International Conference on Fracture (Icf11), Held in Turin, Italy, o (Paperback)

Editorial.- ICF11 Official speeches.- Fractal analysis and synthesis of fracture surface roughness and related forms of complexity and disorder.- Scaling phenomena in fatigue and fracture.- ICF contribution to fracture research in the second half of the 20th century.- Inverse analyses in fracture mechanics.- Nanoprobing fracture length scales.- Application of fracture mechanics concepts to hierarchical biomechanics of bone and bone-like materials.- Development of the local approach to fracture over the past 25 years: Theory and applications.- The effect of hydrogen on fatigue properties of metals used for fuel cell system.- A cohesive zone global energy analysis of an impact loaded bi-material strip in shear.- Laboratory earthquakes.- Electromigration failure of metal lines.- Modern domain-based discretization methods for damage and fracture.