Chapter 1. IntroductionPart I: Isotropic Damage Mechanics - Scalar FormulationChapter 2. Uniaxial Tension in Metals Chapter 3. Uniaxial Tension in Elastic Metal Matric Composites Chapter 4. Uniaxial Tension in Elasto-Plastic Metal Matric Composites: Vector Formulation of the Overall Approach Part II: Anisotropic Damage Mechanics - Tensor FormulationChapter 5. Damage and Elasticity in Metals Chapter 6. Damage and Plasticity in Metals Chapter 7. Metal Matrix Composites - Overall Approach Chapter 8. Metal Matrix Composites - Local Approach Chapter 9. Equivalence of the Overall and Local Approaches Chapter 10. Metal Matrix Composites - Local and Interfacial Damage Chapter 11. Symmetrization of the Effective Stress Tensor Chapter 12. Experimental Damage Investigation Chapter 13. High Cyclic Fatigue Damage for Uni-Directional Metal Matrix Composites Chapter 14. Anisotropic Cyclic Damage-Plasticity Models for Metal Matrix CompositesPart III: Advanced Topics in Damage MechanicsChapter 15. Damage in Metal Matrix Composites Using the Generalized Model Cells Chapter 16. The Kinematics of Damage for Finite-Strain Elasto-Plastic Solids Chapter 17. A Coupled Anisotropic Damage Model for the Inelastic Response of Composite MaterialsPart IV: Damage Mechanics and Fabric TensorsChapter 18. Damage Mechanics and Fabric Tensors Chapter 19. Continuum Approach to Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials with Fabric Tensors Chapter 20. Micromechanical Approach to Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials with Fabric Tensors Chapter 21. Experimental Study and Fabric Tensor Quantification of Micro-Crack Distributions in Composite Materials