Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 29 of the "Advances in Applied Mechanics" contains a chapter on interface mechanics for thin films and composites, another on the micromechanics of fatigue crack initiation, and a third on a special method for simulating fluid flows. J.W. Hutchinson and Z. Suo present a fairly complete treatment of recent developments in interfacial fracture mechanics with applications to thin film problems and to layered material systems. T.H. Lin summarizes some of his extensive contributions to the important subject of fatigue crack initiation in the high-cycle lifetime regime. The article by H. Zhang and F. Zuang provides thorough coverage of the NND scheme applied to two- and three- dimensional flow.
