EFM covers a broad range of topics in fracture mechanics to be of interest and use to both researchers and practitioners. Contributions are welcome which address the fracture behavior of conventional engineering material systems as well as newly emerging material systems. Contributions on developments in the areas of mechanics and materials science strongly related to fracture mechanics are also welcome. Papers on fatigue are welcome if they treat the fatigue process using the methods of fracture mechanics.

The Editors especially solicit contributions which synthesize experimental and theoretical-computational studies yielding results with direct engineering significance.

Original research papers, technical notes, letters to the editor.

Editors
A.R. Ingraffea
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Email A.R. Ingraffea
M. Kuna
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany Email M. Kuna
X.Q. Feng
Tsinghua University, China Email X.Q. Feng
Honorary Editors
K.-H. Schwalbe
Lüneburg, Germany
R.H. Dodds, Jr.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Founding Editor
G.R. Irwin
University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
P.C. Paris
Washington University, Missouri, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
L. Banks-Sills
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
S. Beretta
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
J.J. Besson
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Evry Cedex, France
B. Blackman
Imperial College London, London, England, UK
A. Carpinteri
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
W. Curtin
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
I. Dlouhy
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic and Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
A. Dyskin
University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
M. Elices
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
G. Glinka
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J.A. Joyce
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Y.-J. Kim
Korea University, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
T. Kitamura
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
J.D. Landes
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
F. Minami
Osaka University, Suita-Shi, Japan
N. Moes
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France
R. Narasimhan
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
J.C. Newman
Mississippi State University, Mississippi, Mississippi, USA
N.P. O'Dowd
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
T. Pardoen
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
R. Pippan
Austrian Acad Sci & Inst Metal, Leoben, Austria
S. Rahman
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
R.O. Ritchie
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
C. Ruggieri
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
A. Saxena
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
M. Scibetta
SCK.CEN, Mol, Belgium
V. Shlyannikov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russian Federation
R. Singh
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Z. Suo
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
M. Sutton
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
K. Wallin
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
H. Yuan
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
U. Zerbst
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
Z.L. Zhang
Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, Trondheim, Norway