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Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics, Historical Notes, Stresses and Strains in a Continuum, Crack Modes, Mathematical Analysis of Cracks, Experimental Fracture Mechanics, Applications in Rock Engineering and in Seismology.

Laboratory exercises: force balance in cartesian and polar coordinate systems; stress in thick-walled pipe and around a round hole; stresses at the edge of a crack.