Contemporary Research in Engineering Science

The book is a collection of papers several of which are written by leading authorities in their field and provide a state-of-the-art knowledge in many disciplines of engineering science such as computational mechanics, fracture mechanics, aging aircrafts, fluid mechanics and structural analysis. Beginning as well as more established researchers should benefit from studying the papers included in this volume. This volume is written by friends, colleagues, former doctoral and postdoctoral students of Dr. Satya N. Atluri to celebrate his receiving the Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science at its 32nd Annual Technical Meeting held in New Orleans, LA on October 29 - November 1, 1995.