Download or read book NATO Advanced Research Workshop. Toughening Mechanisms in Quasi-Brittle Materials, Held in Evanston, Illinois on July 16-20, 1990 written by Surendra P. Shah and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workshop brought together researchers addressing the problem of fracture in cement, ceramics, and rock so that they could share their knowledge and develop a more general syntheses of the problem. This preprint volume contains contributions from lectures for each of the 9 sessions. The final proceedings of this workshop will be published in a hardcover book by Kluewer Academic Publishers (NATO ASI Series). This book will contain 36 chapters; the finalized contributions of 27 lectures and 9 reporters. Keywords: Quasi brittle materials, Toughening mechanisms in materials, Workshop, Cement fracture, Ceramic fracture, Rock fracture. (js).