This book represents thirteen papers that are based on the presentations made in the five
session symposium on "Damage and Interfacial Debonding in Composites" on the occasion
of the 32nd Society of Engineering Science Meeting; held in New Orleans, Louisiana,
October 29 - November 1, 1995. The five sessions were mainly in the area of constitutive
modeling of the micromechanics of damage of composites. It includes macromechanical/
micromechanical constitutive modeling, experimental procedures, and numerical modeling.
Inelastic behavior, interfaces, damage, fracture, failure, and computational methods are
included.
The book is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the study of damage of composites,
and Part II is on the interfacial debonding of composites. The papers discuss topics ranging
from theoretical treatments to experimental investigation. The papers investigate both micromechanics
and continuum aspects of damage and interfacial debonding in composites.
We express our thanks to all the authors that contributed to this work. Their time and
effort are greatly appreciated.
