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Fracture Mechanics of Concrete: Applications of Fracture Mechanics to Concrete, Rock, and Other Quasi-Brittle Materials Surendra Shah, Stuart Swartz, and Chengsheng Ouyang John Wiley & Sons, New York, 522 pp., $69.95, indexed
Designed as a textbook for graduate students, this book is divided into two sections and includes an appendix with problems that can be used as the basis for exams. The first part, chapters one through eight, presents the fundamentals about the fracture mechanics of concrete and rock; the second part covers...