This volume of proceedings consists of invited papers on the following and related subject areas: Composite Materials; Experimental Methods in Stress Analysis; Fracture Mechanics; Structural Stability; Non-Linear Behaviour of Materials and Structures; Plasticity; Numerical Methods; Structural Dynamics.

"The conference Proceedings contain four Keynote Papers from world authorities, together with 63 other papers of a wide International distribution, from experts in the fields of: Composite Materials; Experimental Techniques; Fracture & Fatigue; Materials & Structures; Plasticity; Computational Techniques (Finite Elements); Computational Techniques (Finite Strips, Boundary Element Methods and others); Civil Engineering Structures; and Structural Dynamics.--Pref.