Preface.- Acknowledgment.- List of abbreviations.- Introduction.- Stability loss problems for viscoelastic plates.- Buckling delamination of elastic and viscoelastic composite plates with cracks.- Surface and internal stability loss in the structure of elastic and viscoelastic layered composites.- Stability loss in the structure of unidirected fibrous elastic and viscoelastic composites.- Applications of the approach developed in Chapter 4 on the problems related to the stress concentration in initially stressed bodies.- Self-balanced stresses caused by periodical curving of two neighboring and periodically located row of fibers in an infinite matrix.- References.- Index.