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WCCM 2012: Minisymposium on Fracture and Contact Mechanics for Interface Problems

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Minisymposium on Fracture and Contact Mechanics for Interface Problems

Organizers: Marco Paggi, Alberto Carpinteri, Peter Wriggers

Contact person: Marco Paggi (marco.paggi@polito.it)

 

The present Mini-Symposium aims at providing a
forum for specialists in fracture mechanics and contact mechanics to discuss
advances in mathematical formulations and computational models for interface
mechanical problems. This is a follow-up event of a Mini-Symposium on "Fracture
and Contact Mechanics for Interface Problems" organized by the present
organizers as part of the IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM
2010) held in Paris, France, May 16-21, 2010. That 4-day symposium featured
more than 40 outstanding speakers with five keynotes and attracted a large
audience, demonstrating a high interest of the scientific Community.

This Mini-Symposium will be scientifically
supported by the International Congress on Fracture as an Interquadrennial ICF Conference.
It will also be held under the auspices of the Italian Group of Fracture.  

With the increasing need of miniaturization and
understanding the effect of material microstructures on the mechanical
response, interface mechanical problems are of main concern both in classical
engineering fields (civil, mechanical, aerospace and electronic engineering), geophysics,
materials science, as well as in emerging technologies (biomechanics, MEMS and
NEMS, renewable energy applications). In this context, analytical and numerical
methods based on fracture mechanics and contact mechanics can be profitably
applied to characterize the mechanical behaviour of interfaces over all the
scales.

Interested researchers are invited to submit
abstracts on topics which include, but are not limited to:

- Multiscale
characterization of roughness of contact and fracture surfaces;

- Mathematical
formulations for the structural analysis of multi-material systems;

- Computational
methods for decohesion and contact at interfaces under monotonic or cyclic
loading;

- Analysis
of instability phenomena at interfaces;

- Interface
constitutive laws;

- Numerical
applications to advanced heterogeneous materials, such as hierarchical
composites and functionally graded materials;

- Numerical
applications to biomechanics and to heterogeneous material components used in
renewable energy technologies (photovoltaics, MEMS, fuel cells).

    Abstracts of perspective contributors should be
    submitted through the website of the WCCM 2012 Conference (http://www.wccm2012.com)
    by November 30, 2011. After the Conference, selected authors will be invited to
    submit a full paper for inclusion in a special issue of an international journal
    or in another publication of international relevance.

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