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The Mechanics Of Solids History and Evolution: A Festschrift in Honor of Arnold D. Kerr

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Preface	p. 7
Biography of Arnold Kerr	p. 9
Publications of Arnold Kerr	p. 11
Symposium schedule	p. 19
Symposium remarks	p. 23
Remarks by Michael J. Chajes	p. 23
Remarks by Charles Thornton	p. 27
Symposium photographs	p. 29
The evolution of contact mechanics	p. 31
Crack detection by laser-based techniques	p. 59
Evolution of buckling modes in continuously supported structures : from eigenfunctions to actual buckled shapes	p. 77
History and lessons of a paradox associated with follower forces	p. 93
Engineering of railway tracks	p. 109
Design ice forces and fracture scaling	p. 139
Fracture analysis and size effects in failure of sea ice	p. 151
Follow that white concrete road : the evolution of concrete pavement analysis	p. 171
History of sandwich structures and their analyses	p. 199
The evolution of the concept of Green's function and its use in the mechanics of solids	p. 231
Dislocations as Green's functions in plane elasticity	p. 241
On the mechanical behavior of carbon nanotubes in hexagonal arrays	p. 263
Notes on contributors	p. 295
Index	p. 299
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