IUTAM symposium on rheology of bodies with defects. Proceedings of the symposium held in Beijing, China, September 2--5, 1997 (Q1305511)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] The monograph contains the following papers: 1. \textit{L. W. Yuan}, The rupture theory of rheological materials with defects; 2. \textit{T. Q. Yang}, Rheological behavior and failure characteristics of viscoelastic solids with defects; 3. \textit{A. V. Balueva}, Simulation of slow kinetic fracture of gas emissionable materials; 4. \textit{Y. C. Gao}, A new creep law and its application to crack tip field analysis; 5. \textit{Y. L. Bai}, \textit{M. F. Xia}, \textit{F. J. Ke} and \textit{H. K. Li}; Damage field equation and criterion for damage localization; 6. \textit{M. Mihăilescu-Suliciu} and \textit{I. Suliciu}, Engery estimates for piecewise smooth rate type thermo-viscoelastic models with van der Waals-type equilibrium surfaces; 7. \textit{Z. B. Kuang}, Some remarks on thermodynamic theory of viscous-elasto-plastic media; 8. \textit{K. Sobczyk} and \textit{J. Trȩbicki}, Stochastic response of degrading elastic systems; 9. \textit{W. Luo}, Experimental studies on the evolution of defect temperature field during deformation of ABS; 10. \textit{Y. C. Zhou}, \textit{Z. M. Zhu}, \textit{Z. P. Duan} and \textit{Q. B. Yang}, Rheological-thermal fracture by laser beam; 11. \textit{Z. P. Huang}, \textit{J. K. Chen}, \textit{H. L. Li} and \textit{Y. Liu}, A constitutive model of a particle-reinforced viscoelastic composite material with debonded microvoids; 12. \textit{N. C. Huang}, Dynamic debonding between fibers and matrix in fiber-reinforced composites; 13. \textit{N. Ohno}, \textit{H. Kawabe}, \textit{T. Miyake} and \textit{M. Mizuno}, A model for shear stress relaxation around a fiber break in unidirectional composites and creep rupture analysis, 14. \textit{L. L. Wang}, \textit{Z. B. Jiang} and \textit{J. Y. Chen}, Studies on rheological-relation-materials by taking into account the rate-dependent evolution of internal defects at high strain rates; 15. \textit{X. Zhang} and \textit{Y. W. Mai}, Damage wave propagation in elastic-brittle materials; 16. \textit{A. S. Béranger}, \textit{R. Billardon}, \textit{F. Hild} and \textit{H. Y. Agha}; Effect of initial flaws in high-cycle fatigue of SG cast iron; 17. \textit{P. Stroeven} and \textit{M. Stroeven}, Study of crack development as the basis for rheology of cementitious materials; 18. \textit{Z. X. Li} and \textit{Y. P. Huang}, Rate-sensitive damage behavior of mortar in compression; 19. \textit{J. S. Lie} and \textit{J. Sun}, Coupled effect of creep and stress relaxation of soft clay; 20. \textit{P. Cao} and \textit{C. L. Pan} and \textit{L. Luo}, Prediction of abrupt failure of cracked rockmass; 21. \textit{R. Wang}, On the study of creep rupture of structure; 22. \textit{A. Bodnar} and \textit{M. Chrzanowski}, Development of non-unilateral damage field in creeping plates; 23. \textit{V. S. Gudramovych}, Plastic and creep instability of shells with initial imperfections. Some of the papers are far from the subject, as e.g. (8). Most of them are purely-analytical and far from physical (or engineering) applications.