L. Faria - Böcker

This volume contains the text of some 40 technical papers given at the 6th CIM-Europe Annual Conference, held in Lisbon. The theme of the conference was "using emerging CIM technologies for the competitiveness of European manufacturing technology." The conference sessions covered a wide range of topics including computer aided planning, technology transfer, tools for integration, robotics, impact and experience in CIM, human factors, and enabling technologies. The speakers, from industry and academia, represented leading research groups in Western Europe. Many of the papers describe the results of CIM projects funded as part of the European Communities ESPRIT programme. ESPRIT (European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology) is an industry-oriented collaborative research and development programme, and is managed and co-funded by the European Communities. CIM-Europe is the information and awareness branch of ESPRIT CIM. The conference was jointly supported by the Commission of the European Communities and the Ministry of Industry and Energy, Portugal.

This book consists of a collection of lectures prepared for a short course on "Fracture Mechanics Methodology" sponsored by the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD), part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The course was organized jointly by Professor George C. Sih of the Institute of Fracture and Solid Mechanics at Lehigh University in the United States and Professor Luciano Faria from Centro de Mecanica e de Materiais das Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal. It was held in Lisbon from June 1 to 4, 1981. Dr. Robert Badaliance from the McDonnell Aircraft Company in St. Louis and Dr. Oscar Orringer from the Depart- ment of Transportation in Cambridge are the other US lecturers while Professor Carlos Moura Branco from Portugal also lectured. The audience consisted of engineers from the Portuguese industry with a large portion from the aeronautical sector and others who are particularly interested to apply the fracture mechanics discipline for analyzing the integrity of structural components and fracture control methods. Particular. emphases were given to the fundamentals of fracture mechanics as applied to aircraft structures.