Damage mechanics in engineering materials This book contains thirty peer reviewed papers that are based on the presentations made at the symposium on Damage Mechanics in Engineering Materials on the occasion of the Joint ASME ASCE SES Mechanics Conference (McNU97) held in Evanston Illinois June 28 July 2 1997. The key area of discussion was on the constitutive modeling of damage mechanics in engineering materials encompassing the following topics: macromechanics micromechanical constitutive modeling experimental procedures numerical modeling inelastic behavior interfaces damage fracture failure computational methods. The book is divided into six parts: Study of damage mechanics. Localization and damage. Damage in brittle materials. Damage in metals and metal matrix composites. Computational aspects of damage models. Damage in polymers and elastomers