This publication contains seventeen selected papers derived from the thirty four papers
presented during the Euromech Colloquium "Numerical Modelling in Damage
Mechanics" held in Troyes at the University of Technology of Troyes, October 2000,
with Professors JL Chaboche, K Saanoumi and P Steinmann as co-chairmen.
Damage mechanics has now reached a high degree of maturity and is currently used for
many different applications connected with numerical simulation techniques. Many
attempts have been made to build efficient numerical tools for damage initiation and
growth simulation in mechanical structures under both small and large deformation
hypotheses. The objectives of the colloquium published here were to gather recent
advances in numerical and computational aspects of damage mechanics, and also to
stimulate current research and future challenges in this field.