Analysis of high velocity impact testing.- Cleavage fracture in steel specimens under short stress pulse loading.- Crack propagation and arrest study at stress pulse loading.- Dynamic crack propagation and crack arrest in a structural steel: Comparison between isothermal and thermal shock tests.- On the practical significance of crack arrest.- Influence of grain size on triaxial dynamic behavior of alumina.- High speed double torsion testing of pipe grade polyethylenes: -- Experiment and analysis.- Dynamic fracture toughness of filled polymers using a global energetic criterion.

- Dynamic failure mechanisms in gallstones using lithotripsy.- Stress wave focusing induced fracture -- A photoelastic study.- Nonlinear effects of fracture of ceramics in stress waves.- Photomechanics of surface-crack -- wave interaction phenomena.- Measurement of transient crack tip fields using the Coherent Gradient Sensor.- FE-Investigation on caustics for measuring impact fracture toughness.- Some experiments on measurement of dynamic stress intensity factor of fast propagating cracks.- Experimental and numerical studies on fast curving fracture.

- Study of dynamic crack propagation in polystyrene by the method of dynamic caustics.- Recent advances in data processing from caustics.- The transient analysis of a subsurface inclined crack subjected to stress wave loading.- Numerical modeling of dynamic failure of elastic-plastic materials by Godunov's method.- Transient viscoelastodynamic response of cracked bodies.- Dislocation generation by dynamically-loaded cracks and its effects on fracture characterization.- Dynamic interaction between dislocation and mode-III crack.- Micromechanics of craze-aided ductility of rubber-toughened plastics under dynamic loading.

- Microscopic fracture modes of brittle polymers in dynamic crack propagation.- Simulation of a fast Dugdale crack motion with varying velocity.- Modelling dynamic fracture in polymers using a local modulus concept.- Author Index.