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[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This volume, the second of two in what is intended to be a series of at least three, comprises twenty-seven refereed papers delivered at a conference held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 1987. The first such conference was held at the same university in 1985. The contributions are in the general areas of experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, inelastic behavior including creep and plasticity, impulsive behavior, buckling, stress analysis and thermal problems. The scope of the collection embraces technological areas as diverse as the integrity assessment of nuclear reactor components under high temperature, vibration characteristics of plate-like structures and the study of the influence of impact damage on the safety of offshore structures. The collection is divided into five chapters: Experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, shell structures, inelastic behavior, and buckling and stress analysis. An index is included. Two chapters - experimental mechanics and inelastic behavior - open with general reviews of the (then) current states of their subjects. The remaining papers cover special topics of research. The majority of the authors are from academic institutions. The papers collected here provide a basis for beginning study of only two of the areas listed. For further background, the novice reader should seek other sources of comprehensive reviews. The research papers report work that was obviously done prior to the conference. It thus may have been superseded by the same authors or others in the specialities reported here. Nevertheless, the coverage is representative of current reseach efforts in several important areas of applied solid mechanics. This volume should be of particular interest to engineers engaged in research in the general area of applied solid mechanics.