Part I Historical Perspective.-  Meinhard Kuna: Physics and Engineering at the Crack Tip - A Retrospective -- Experimental and Numerical Fracture Mechanics – An Individually Dyed History -- Part II Applications -- Fracture Mechanics Assessment of Welded Components at Static Loading -- Application of Fracture Mechanics for the Life Prediction of Critical Rotating Parts for Aero Engines -- Consideration of Fatigue Crack Growth Aspects in the Design and Assessment of Railway Axles -- Part III Fracture Testing -- Assessment of Material Properties by Means of the Small Punch Test -- Determination of Fracture Mechanics Parameters for Cast Iron Materials under Static, Dynamic and Cyclic Loading -- On the Development of Experimental Methods for the Determination of Fracture Mechanical Parameters of Ceramics -- Transition from Flat to Slant Fracture in Ductile Materials.- Part IV Smart Materials -- Interaction of Cracks and Domain Structures in Thin Ferroelectric Films -- Modeling Approaches to Predict Damage Evolution and Life Time of Brittle Ferroelectrics -- Numerical Analysis of Interface Cracks in Layered Piezoelectric Solids -- Part V Analytical Mechanics -- Crack-Tip Fields of a Crack Impinging upon the Yielding/Debonding Slippage in Anisotropic Body -- On Conservation Laws and Reciprocity in Configurational Mechanics -- Part VI Local Approach to Fracture -- A Model for Predicting Fracture Toughness and Scatter in Thermally Embrittled Steels -- Micromechanical-Based Models for Des cribing Damage of Ferritic Steels -- Recent Trends in the Development of the Gurson's Model.