The present monograph deals with new advanced materials, including composites, functionally graded materials, materials for high temperature service, advanced approaches to local and non-local analysis of localized damage, new description of crack deactivation, and many more.

It contains following subjects: Material properties for high temperature applications; thermodynamics of constitutive modeling of damaged materials; developing and implementing selected constitutive models for elasto-plastic-damage materials; developing and implementing constitutive models for the specific functionally graded materials, with special attention paid to thermal barrier coatings.