This volume is a collection of the papers given at the workshop on Fracture Scaling, held at the University of Maryland, USA, 10-12 June 1999, under the sponsor

Fractals have changed the way we understand and study nature. This change has been brought about mainly by the work of B. B. Mandelbrot and his book The Fractal

The author describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity, which are here given a modern

Invited international contributions to this exciting new research field are included in this volume. It contains the specially selected papers from 45 key speci

This Volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics', held in Fairbanks, Alaska from 13th to 16th