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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