Volume Contents NUMBER 1 F.-S. Li and S. Kyriakides On the response and stability of two concentric, contact- ing rings under external pressure Per-Lennart Larsson On delamination buckling and growth in circular and annular orthotropic plates Jakob Wedel-Heinen Vibration of geometrically imperfect beam and shell structures X. M. Su and W. D. Lu On the strain localizations of ductile single crystals undergoing single slip G. A. Kardomateas End force loading of generally anisotropic curved beams with linearly varying elastic constants J. P. Dempsey, Z. G. Zhao Axisymmetric indentation of an elastic layer supported and H, Li by a Winkler foundation A. L. Florence, P. R. Gefken Dynamic plastic buckling of copper cylindrical shells and S. W. Kirkpatrick P. Ponte Castaiieda and Stable crack growth along a brittle/ductile interface— P. A. Mataga I. Near-tip fields NUMBER 2 Moshe Eisenberger Buckling loads for variable cross-section members with variable axial forces Gregory J. Rodin On the problem of linear elasticity for an infinite region and Yuh-Long Hwang containing a finite number of non-intersecting spherical inhomogeneities A. P. Christoforou Analysis of impact response in composite plates and S. R. Swanson J.-L. Guyader Uncertainty bounds for energy of imperfectly described vibration fields. Application to the validity of truncated modal expansion K. M. Liew and K. Y. Lam A Rayleigh-Ritz approach to transverse vibration of isotropic and anisotropic t-apezoidal plates using orthogonal plate functions J. W. Rudnicki Steady propagation of plane strain shear cracks on an and D. A. Koutsibelas impermeable plane in an elastic diffusive solid iil Volume Contents 227 On two-dimensional self-consistent micromechanical damage models for brittle solids Erratum NUMBER 3 George Z. Voyiadjis A refined two-dimensional theory for thick cylindrical and Guangyu Shi shells Guangyu Shi A simple C° quadrilateral thick/thin shell element based and George Z. Voyiadjis on the refined shell theory and the assumed strain fields P. S. Symonds, Francesco Genna Special cases in study of anomalous dynamic elastic— and Antonella Ciullini plastic response of beams by a simple model A. C. Wijeyewickrema, The annular crack surrounding an elastic fiber in a L. M. Keer, K. Hirashima tension field and T. Mura Wen-Biao Wang On the invariant representation of spin tensors with and Zhu-Ping Duan applications V. L. Fabrikant External circular crack under concentrated anti- symmetric loading Millard F. Beatty Finite amplitude and free vibrations of a body supported and Ziliang Zhou by incompressible, nonlinear viscoelastic shear mount- ings J. C. Simo and L. Vu-Quoc A geometrically-exact rod model incorporating shear and torsion-warping deformation R. S. Rivlin Objectivity of the constitutive equation for a material with memory Announcements Symposium on Computational Technology for Flight Vehicles, Sheraton National Hotel, Washington DC, U.S.A., 5-7 November 1990 Symposium on Symbolic Computations and _ their Impact on Mechanics, ASME Winter Meeting, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., 25-30 November 1990 NUMBER 4 Niels Saabye Ottosen and Properties of discontinuous bifurcation solutions in Kenneth Runesson elasto-plasticity J. L. Nowinski On the nonlocal aspect of propagation of the elastic Goodier—Bishop surface waves Volume Contents v A. Ghani Razaqpur Exact analysis of beams on two-parameter elastic and K. R. Shah foundations Kuang-Chong Wu Explicit crack-tip fields of an extending interface crack in an anisotropic bimaterial Yoshiaki Goto, Satsuki Suzuki Analysis of critical behavior of semi-rigid frames with or and Wai-Fah Chen without load history in connections S. M. Li, H. Z. Zhong Transient response of a cylindrical shell of finite length and C. Ruiz to transverse impact C. R. Calladine and S. Pellegrino First-order infinitesimal mechanisms E. N. Kuznetsov Letter to the Editor C. R. Calladine and S. Pellegrino Authors’ Closure NUMBER 5 Yang Gao Extended bounding theorems for nonlinear limit analysis Maurice B. Fuchs Unimodal beam elements Y. B. Fu and N. H. Scott Transverse cylindrical simple waves and shock waves in elastic non-conductors Marcelo R. M. Crespo da Silva, Effects of approximations on the static and dynamic Clifford L. Zaretzky and response of a cantilever with a tip mass Dewey H. Hodges J. L. Teply, E. J. Barbero Bending, vibration and stability of ARALL® Laminates and J. N. Reddy using a generalized laminate plate theory Daniel Dudzinski and Perturbation analysis of thermoviscoplastic instabilities Alain Molinari in biaxial loading C. V. Girija Vallabhan and A refined model for beams on elastic foundations Y. C. Das Izhak Sheinman and Post-buckling analysis of composite delaminated beams Michael Soffer A. Deb, M. K. Deb and Analysis of orthotropically modeled stiffened plates M. Booton Announcements and Calls for Papers The Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition lst European Solid Mechanics Conference, Technical University of Munich, F.R.G., 9-13 September 1991 Luromech Meetings 1991 Volume Contents 670 International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures, Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado, U.S.A., 2-5 June 1992 NUMBER 6 C. M. Sayers and M. Kachanov A simple technique for finding effective elastic constants of cracked solids for arbitrary crack orientation statistics L. M. Keer, S. H. Kim, Compliance of coated elastic bodies in contact A. W. Eberhardt and V. Vithoontien G. C. Gaunaurd and Transient acoustic scattering by fluid-loaded elastic W. Wertman shells M. R. Banan, G. Karami and Non-linear theory for elastic spatial rods M. Farshad P. F. Joseph and F. Erdogan Surface crack in a plate under antisymmetric loading conditions Ch. Zhang and J. D. Achenbach Effective wave velocity and attenuation in a material with distributed penny-shaped cracks X. M. Su and W. D. Lu Post-bifurcation and imperfection sensitivity analysis of plastic clamped circular plates Yves M. Leroy Linear stability analysis of rate-dependent discrete systems Call for Papers Conference on Recent Developments in Elasticity, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 1-6 December 1991 NUMBER 7 A. K. Belyaev Vibrational state of complex mechanical structures under broad-band excitation J. Awrejcewicz Determination of periodic oscillations in nonlinear autonomous discrete—continuous systems with delay Bulent Aksel, Chung-Yuen Hui Effects of a frictional interface on the load diffusion from and Dimitris C. Lagoudas a broken filament embedded in an elastic medium M. Isida and H. Igawa Analysis of a zig-zag array of ci:cular holes in an infinite solid under uniaxial tension Y. C. Li and N. C. Huang Fatigue crack speed of materials with linear hardening Volume Contents Vii 885 Constitutive analysis of large elasto-plastic deformation based on the multiplicative decomposition of defor- mation gradient Free vibration analysis of doubly curved shallow shells on rectangular planform using three-dimensional elasticity theory A. S. M. Israil and P. K. Banerjee Interior stress calculations in 2-D time-domain transient BEM analysis Kuen Y. Lin and Sung Yi Analysis of interlaminar stresses in viscoelastic com- posites Announcement and Cail for Papers 22nd Midwestern Mechanics Conference, University of Missouri—Rolla, Rolla, MO, U.S.A., 6—9 October 1991 NUMBER 8 W. M. Karunasena, A. H. Shah Reflection of plane strain waves at the free edge of a and S. K. Datta laminated composite plate C. Comi, A. Corigliano and Extremum properties of finite-step solutions in elasto- G. Maier plasticity with nonlinear mixed hardening Qing Zhang and Design sensitivity coefficients for linear elastic bodies Subrata Mukherjee with zones and corners by the derivative boundary element method S. Chandrashekara and An efficient solution to the free vibration of thick U. Santhosh angle-ply laminae Anna Dollar and Paul S. Steif Stresses in fibers spanning an infinite matrix crack E. Suhir Approximate evaluation of the elastic interfacial stresses in thin films with application to high-T, superconducting ceramics C.-C. Chu The effect of restraining force on springback A. K. Bhattacharya and Finite element analysis of cone indentation W. D. Nix Tomoaki Tsuji, Naotake Noda, Stress singularity in torsion problem for bonded bars Toshikazu Shibuya and Takashi Koizumi J. S. Smaill Large deflection response of annular plates on Pasternak foundations NUMBER 9 Stelios Kyriakides and 1085 The initiation and propagation of a localized instability Yu-Chung Chang in an inflated elastic tube Viii Volume Contents Jilin Yu and Norman Jones 1113 Further experimental investigations on the failure of clamped beams under impact loads Pietro Bocca, Alberto Carpinteri 1139 Mixed mode fracture of concrete and Silvio Valente Tomasz Lewihski 1155 Effective models of composite periodic plates—I. Asymptotic solution Tomasz Lewinski 1173 Effective models of composite periodic plates—II. Simplifications due to symmetries Tomasz Lewinski 1185 Effective models of composite periodic plates—ITI. Two-dimensional approaches R. K. N. D. Rajapakse 1205 Letter to the Editor Michael C. Constantinou and 1209 Letter to the Editor George Gazetas Y. M. Tsai 1213 Author’s Closure NUMBER 10 Solomon Dinkevich Finite symmetric systems and their analysis M. D. Sharma, Rajneesh Kumar Surface wave propagation in a liquid-saturated porous and M. L. Gogna layer overlying a homogeneous transversely isotropic half-space and lying under a uniform layer of liquid Ahmed K. Noor, W. Scott Burton Assessment of computational models for multilayered and Jeanne M. Peters composite cylinders C. Y. Wang Postbuckling of an externally pressurized ring with a hinge Jeng-Shian Chang and Thermal buckling analysis of antisymmetric laminated Wei-Chong Chiu cylindrical shell panels R. J. Zhang and Wei Zhang Turning pcint solutions for thin shell vibrations H. L. Schreyer and C.-P. Chiu The effects on penetrator deceleration of material features exhibited in soils Announcement Conference on Fracture Processes in Brittle Disordered Materials, Oranje Hotel, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 19-21 June 1991 Call for Papers 18th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Technion—lIsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 22-28 August 1992 Volume Contents Call for Proposals 1349 To host an IUTAM Symposium in 1994 or 1995 NUMBER 11 F. Laudiero, M. Savoia The influence of shear deformations on the stability of and D. Zaccaria thin-walled beams under non-conservative loading Fariborz Ghahremani A numerical variational method for extracting 3D singularities C. H. Chou, J. Pan Constitutive laws for thin plates of power-law materials and S. C. Tang Lowell J. Berg Asymptotic variational methods in large deflection small strain plate theory Maria K. Duszek and The localization of plastic deformation in thermoplastic Piotr Perzyna solids K.-D. Lee and E. Krempl An orthotropic theory of viscoplasticity based on over- stress for thermomechanical deformations Werner Mack Rotating elastic-plastic tube with free ends NUMBER 12 Daniel A. Tortorelli, Sensitivity analysis for coupled thermoelastic systems G. Subramani, Stephen C. Y. Lu and Robert B. Haber M. M. Megahed Elastic—plastic behaviour of spherical shells with non- linear hardening properties M. Isida and H. Igawa Analysis of a zig-zag array of circular inclusions in a solid under uniaxial tension Y. P. Qiu and G. J. Weng The influence of inclusion shape on the overall elasto- plastic behavior of a two-phase isotropic composite Kiyohiro Ikeda, Kazuo Murota Bifurcation hierarchy of symmetric structures and Hiroshi Fujii Mahesh D. Pandey and Imperfection sensitivity of optimized, laminated com- Archibald N. Sherbourne posite shells: a physical approach Xing Zhong Xi and Jia Ji Lin Letter to the Editor Erratum Announcement Internationa! Seminar on Large Plastic Deformations: Fundamental Aspects and Applications to Metal Form- ing, Fontainebleau, France, 7-9 August 1991 Volume Contents NUMBER 13 R. Parnes 1605 The eccentric Lamé problem: an equivalent perturbed domain solution Per-Lennart Larsson 1623 On multiple delamination buckling and growth in com- posite plates V. I. Bazaykin, V. E. Gromov, 1639 Mechanics of electrostimulated wire drawing V. A. Kuznetsov and V. N. Peretyatko Emmanuel Detournay and Plane strain analysis of a stationary hydraulic fracture in Alexander H.-D. Cheng a poroelastic medium Huajian Gao Fracture analysis of nonhomogeneous materials via a moduli-perturbation approach Norman A. Fleck, Crack path selection in a brittle adhesive layer John W. Hutchinson and Zhigang Suo Chyanbin Hwu and Wen J. Yen Green’s functions of two-dimensional anisotropic plates containing an elliptic hole A. Deb, D. P. Henry, Jr and Alternate BEM formulations for 2- and 3-D anisotropic R. B. Wilson thermoelasticity S. Chattopadhyay and R. Saxena Combined effects of shear deformation and permanent indentation on the impact response of elastic plates NUMBER 14 Doron Shalev and Jacob Aboudi 1747 Postbuckling analysis of viscoelastic laminated plates using higher-order theory M. Gosz, B. Moran and 1757 Effect of a viscoelastic interface on the transverse behav- J. D. Achenbach ior of fiber-reinforced composites Erdogan Madenci 1773 Delamination growth and buckling in an orthotropic strip Paul S. Steif 1789 Influence of frictional shear stresses on bifurcation in layered solids Thomas J. Pence and John Song 1809 Buckling instabilities in a thick elastic three-ply com- posite plate under thrust R. C. Batra and Z. G. Zhu 1829 Dynamic adiabatic shear band development in a bimetallic body containing a void W. L. Zang and P. Gudmundson 1855 Kinked cracks in an anisotropic plane modeled by an integral equation method Volume Contents NUMBER 15 J. T. Katsikadelis 1867 Large deflection analysis of plates on elastic foundation by the boundary element method T. C. T. Ting and Gongpu Yan 1879 The anisotropic elastic solid with an elliptic hole or rigid inclusion C. O. Horgan and J.G.Simmonds 1895 Asymptotic analysis of an end-loaded, transversely iso- tropic, elastic, semi-infinite strip weak in shear S. R. Bodner, M. Naveh and 1915 Deformation and buckling of axisymmetric viscoplastic A. M. Merzer shells under thermomechanical loading T. W. Kim, H. J. Kim and S.Im = 1925 Delamination crack originating from transverse crack- ing in cross-ply composite laminates under extension A. Luongo 1943 On the amplitude modulation and localization phenom- ena in interactive buckling problems J. D. Renton 1955 Generalized beam theory applied to shear stiffness N. H. Scott 1969 Small vibrations of prestrained constrained elastic materials: the idealized fibre-reinforced material Wei H. Yang 1981 A duality theorem for plastic torsion Call for Papers Society of Engineering Science 28th Annual Meeting, University of Florida, U.S.A., 6-8 November 1991 Volume Contents and Author Index for Volume 27, 1991 Author Index Aboudi, J. 1747 Chang, Y.-C. 1085 Dudzinski, D. 601 Achenbach, J. D. 751, 1757 Chattopadhyay, S. 1739 Duszek, M. K. 1419 Aksel, B. 833 Chen, W.-F. 467 Awrejcewicz, J. 825 Cheng, A. H.-D. 1645 Eberhardt, A. W. 681 Chiu, C.-P. 1327 Eisenberger, M. 135 Banan, M. R. 713 Chiu, W.-C. 1295 Erdogan, F. 725 Banerjee, P. K. 915 Chou, C. H. 1387 Barbero, E. J. 585 Christoforou, A. P. 161 Farshad, M. 713 Batra, R.C. 1829 Chu, C.-C. 1035 Fleck, N. A. 1683 Bazaykin, V. I. 1639 Ciullini, A. 299 Florence, A. L. 89 Beatty, M. F. 355 Comi, C. 965 Frabrikant, V. I. 343 Belyaev, A. K. 811 Constantinou, M. C. 1209 Fu, Y. B. 547 Berg, L. J. 1401 ; Corigliano, A. 965 Fuchs, M. B. 533 Bhattacharya, A. K. 1047 Cresdap Siolv a, M. R.M. 565 Fujii, H. 1551 Bhimaraddi, A. 897 Bocca, P. 1139 Pas, Y.C. 629 Gao, H. 1663 Bodner, S.R. 1915 Datta, S. K. 949 Gao, Y. 523 Booton, M. 647 Deb, A. 647, 1721 Gaunaurd, G.C. 699 Burton, W. S. 1269 Deb, M. K. 647 Gazetas, G. 1209 Dempsey, J. P. 73 Gefken, P.R. 89 Calladine, C. R. 505, 521 Detournay, E. 1645 Genna, F. 299 Carpinteri, A. 1139 Dinkevich, S. 1215 Ghahremani, F. 1371 Chandrashekara, S. 999 Dollar, A. 1011 Gogna, M. L. 1255 Chang, J.-S. 1295 Duan, Z.-P. 329 Gosz, M. 1757