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To my wife and daughter
Preface
This book is an outgrowth of my research in the broad field of fracture mechanics over a period of
twenty years, the past fifteen years of which I have spent focusing on a subbranch of the disci-
pline—that is, fracture mechanics of concrete. My late decision to focus on this field of study
was motivated by two factors, namely, a surging demand for crack analysis in structural concrete
and a keen personal interest in the subject. Compared with other mature engineering disciplines,
fracture mechanics of concrete is still a developing field that is wonderfully rich in scope and
diversity and full of challenging issues to be studied.
In recent years a wide range of models and applications have been proposed for crack analysis,
and an impressive array of useful informatio