Studies in Applied Mechanics

This book series in Applied Mechanics covers a wide range of topics including damage mechanics, processing defects, stress and stability, waves, shells, computational mechanics and modeling. Topics of special interest are:structures made from composite and/or functionally graded materials;nanomechanics;stochastic mechanics;three-dimensional theories;novel finite element and boundary element methods;reliability of structures;reliability of mechanical theories.The series includes monographs, reference works and advanced text books, anniversary and collective volumes, as well as collections of selected and topical conference papers.