This important 2 volume set highlights the state-of-the-art on fracture research and the application of fracture mechanics to brittle disordered materials such

This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and

This book presents an experimentally validated probabilistic strength theory of structures made of concrete, composites, ceramics and other quasibrittle materia

Presents the proceedings of the 5th RILEM International Symposium, held in Barcelona in September 1993. The papers discuss creep and shrinkage of concrete, and