Call for Abstracts: Symposium IV.10 on “Multiscale Fracture and Failure of Materials” at SES 2012 (Atlanta, Oct 10-12)

A symposium on “Multiscale Fracture and Failure of Materials” is being organized for the 49th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES 2012) at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 10 to 12 October, 2012.
 
To submit an abstract for oral presentation at this symposium, please visit the conference website at http://ses2012.org/. The deadline for abstract submission is April 2, 2012.
 
This symposium aims at bringing together researchers active in theoretical, computational and experimental research on the fracture and failure processes at multi-scale levels. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: predictive material modeling, scale-bridging methodologies, hierarchical or complex material systems, innovative experimental techniques, and hybridized computational-experimental investigations.
 
The organizers of this symposium are Shuman Xia (Georgia Institute of Technology, shuman.xia@me.gatech.edu) and Huck Beng Chew (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hbchew@illinois.edu). Any questions concerning the symposium can be addressed to either of them.