International Journal of Solids and Structures

Editors D.A. Hills Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK, Stelios Kyriakides Dept. of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C2100, Austin, TX 78712-0284, USA, Fax: +1 512 471 5500, Assistant Editor D. Dini Imperial College London, London, UK, Board of Editors R. Abeyaratne Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, R. Becker Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, MD, USA, T. Belytschko Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, D.J. Benson University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, H. Chai Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, A. Combescure INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, N. A. Fleck University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, S. D. Guest University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK, Yonggang Huang Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, H. Jensen Aarhus Universitet, Århus C, Denmark, C. M. Landis The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, M. Liechti The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, R. McMeeking University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, S. Natsiavas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, K. Neale Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, Christian Niordson Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, H. Obrecht Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, N. O'Dowd University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Nobutada Ohno Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, G.H. Paulino University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, P. Steinmann Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, N. Stephen University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK, Q. P. Sun The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, Z. Suo Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, P. Suquet Lab de Mecanique et D'Acoustiq, Marseille, France, Y. Tomita Kobe University, Nada, Japan, N. Triantafyllidis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, J. Van Mier Institute for Building Materials, Zurich, Switzerland, Q. Zheng Tsinghua University, Beijing, China