Table of Contents
| 1. Trends of experimental mechanics | |
| Jacek Stupnicki | 207-233 |
| 2. A review of certain non-standard theoretical and experimental investigations in fracture mechanics | |
| Wojciech Szczepiński | 235-258 |
| 3. New applications of the Hopkinson pressure bar technique to determining dynamic bahaviour of materials | |
| Leopold Kruszka, Wojciech K. Nowacki | 259-280 |
| 4. Critical point of the elastoplastic transition in terms of thermomechanical coupling | |
| Elżbieta Pieczyska | 281-306 |
| 5. Damage indicators for diagnostic of fatigue cracks in structures by vibration measurements – a survey | |
| Marek Krawczuk, Wiesław Ostachowicz | 307-326 |
| 6. Behaviour of fatigue short cracks in a medium carbon steel subjected to reversed torsion | |
| Dorota Kocańda, Stanisław Kocańda | 327-343 |
| 7. Fatigue crack behaviour in carburized and laser-hardened components made of 18 HGM steel | |
| Stanisław Kocańda, Lucjan Śnieżek | 345-354 |
| 8. Probabilistic B-models of cumulative fatigue damage | |
| Józef Drewniak | 355-370 |
| 9. The evolution of kinematic and isotropic hardening in the case of complex uniaxial loading | |
| Ewa Sender, Wiesław Trąmpczyński | 371-389 |
| 10. Experimental setup for tests under biaxial tension of anisotropic cruciform specimen | |
| Lech Dietrich, Maciej Waniewski | 391-404 |
| 11. Experimental creep study of metals under multiaxial stress conditions | |
| Zbigniew L. Kowalewski | 405-422 |
| 12. Displacement field gradient measurement using the speckle photography method | |
| Jerzy Tadeusz Pisarek | 423-437 |
| 13. Application of infrared radiation detection to the metal behaviour investigation under mechanical loading | |
| Wiera Oliferuk | 439-458 |
| 14. Vortex shedding from circular cylinder in oscillatory incident flow | |
| Alicja Jarża, Konrad Słomczyński | 459-473 |
| 15. Generation of flow periodicity in a wind-tunnel experiment | |
| Marian Wysocki, Stanisław Drobniak, Witold Elsner | 475-488 |