I express my sincere gratitude to NATO Science Committee for granting me the financial award to organize and direct the Advanced Research Workshop on "MULTILAYERED and FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS" that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, during the period of June 2 - 6, 1997, in collaboration with Professor S. A. Firstov of the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. In this context I wish to convey special thanks to Dr. J. A. Raussell-Colom, NATO Programme Director for Priority Area on High Technology, for his kind...

I wish to express my full indebtedness to all researchers in the field. Without their outstanding contribution to knowledge, this book would not have been written. The author wishes to express his sincere thanks and gratitude to Professors M. F. Ashby (University of Cambridge), N. D. Cristescu (University ofFlorida), N. Davids (The Pennsylvania State University), H. F. Frost (Dartmouth College), A W. Hendry (University of Edinburgh), F. A Leckie (University of California, Santa Barbara), A K. Mukherjee (University of California, Davis), T. Nojima (Kyoto University), J. T. Pindera (University...

I wish to express my full indebtedness to all researchers in the field. Without their outstanding contribution to knowledge, this book would not have been written. The author wishes to express his sincere thanks and gratitude to Professors M. F. Ashby (University of Cambridge), D. R. Axelrad (McGill University), N. D. Cristescu (University of Florida), N. Davids (The Pennsylvania State University), H. F. Frost (Dartmouth College), A. W. Hendry (University of Edinburgh), F. A. Leckie (University of California, Santa Barbara), A. K. Mukherjee (University of California, Davis), T. Nojima (Kyoto...

This monograph consists of two volumes and provides a unified, comprehensive presentation of the important topics pertaining to the understanding and determination of the mechanical behaviour of engineering materials under different regimes of loading. The large subject area is separated into eighteen chapters and four appendices, all self-contained, which give a complete picture and allow a thorough understanding of the current status and future direction of individual topics. Volume I contains eight chapters and three appendices, and concerns itself with the basic concepts pertaining to the...

This book provides a unified, comprehensive presentation of the foundations of the theory of viscoelastic solids. The large subject area is separated into self-contained chapters that give a full, complete picture and allow a thorough understanding of the current status and future direction of individual topics.

I express my sincere gratitude to NATO Science Committee for granting me the financial award to organize and direct the Advanced Research Workshop on "MULTILAYERED and FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS" that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, during the period of June 2 - 6, 1997, in collaboration with Professor S. A. Firstov of the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. In this context I wish to convey special thanks to Dr. J. A. Raussell-Colom, NATO Programme Director for Priority Area on High Technology, for his kind...