This volume of proceedings consists of invited papers on the following and related subject areas: Composite Materials; Experimental Methods in Stress Analysis; Fracture Mechanics; Structural Stability; Non-Linear Behaviour of Materials and Structures; Plasticity; Numerical Methods; Structural Dynamics.
Some recent developments in fracture mechanics, C.E.Turner; a study of the instability of domed roofs for gas storage tanks, J.Spence and G.Schleyer; qualitative properties of finite element models III spline models, G.M.L.Gladwell; the spline finite strip method in structural mechanics, Y.K.Cheung.