An updated account of the state of the art in the subject, presenting recent progress in two active and related areas of continuum mechanics: fracture mechanics and structured deformations.

InhaltsangabeEnergy Minimization for Isotropic Nonlinear Elastic Bodies (M. Silhavý).- Variational Problems of Crack Equilibrium and Crack Propagation (K.C. Le).- Griffith Theory Revisited (J.-J. Marigo).- Foundations of the Theory of Structured Deformations (G. Del Piero).- SecondOrder Structured Deformations: Approximation Theorems (R. Paroni). Crystalline Plasticity and Structured Deformations (L. Deseri).- Elasticity with Disarrangements (D.R. Owen).