Professor Vadim Silberschmidt is Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series Mechanics of Advanced Materials. He is also Associate Editor and/or serves on the board of a number of renowned journals. He has co-authored six research monographs and more than 620 peer-reviewed scientific papers on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage, and fracture in advanced materials under various conditions. Edwin John Hearn is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and a Fellow of the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Electrical Engineers and Institute of Diagnostic Engineers. He is also a Life Fellow of the British Society for Strain Measurement. He has extensive consultancy experience in the field of stress and design analysis. During his career as an academic, Prof. Hearn has published 11 textbooks and numerous papers in professional journals. E J Hearn is an author with an international reputation in the fields of Mechanics of Materials and Stress Analysis. He has over 30 years experience in industry and higher education including activities in the UK, Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA, which spanned practically all sectors of engineering.