1. Editorial transition

   Foreword Pages: 1 - 2

2. A unified approach to the evaluation of linear elastic stress fields in the neighborhood of cracks and notches

   • P. Lazzarin
   • R. Tovo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 19

3. Fully plastic crack-tip fields for plane strain shallow-cracked specimens under pure bending

   • Yun-Jae Kim
   • Guoyu Lin
   • Karl-Heinz Schwalbe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 34

4. Determination of the fracture toughness by automatic image processing

   • J. Stampfl
   • S. Scherer
   • O. Kolednik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 44

5. A theoretical study of steady-state wedge cutting through metal plates

   • Z. M. Zheng
   • T. Wierzbicki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 66

6. Thermomechanical coupling effects on fractured solids

   • N. S. Sun
   • T. R. Hsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 87

7. On the J-integral in periodically layered composites

   • C. T. Sun
   • X. X. Wu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 100

8. Meetings calendar

   Events Pages: R2 - R2

9. Geometric correction factors determined by force balance method for center cracked specimens. X.

   • D. L. Chen
   • B. Weiss
   • Z. G. Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: R3 - R8

10. Evaluation of the crack opening displacement by the direct approximate weight function method

    • Beong In Yun
    • U Jin Choi

    OriginalPaper Pages: R9 - R12

11. Transonic extension of a self-similar interface crack

    • Wang Yue-Sheng

    OriginalPaper Pages: R13 - R19