IUTAM Symposium "Fracture phenomena in nature and technology", Brescia, Italy, July 1-5, 2

First announcement



IUTAM SYMPOSIUM  Fracture phenomena in nature and technology

Brescia, Italy, July 1-5, 2012



Web page:  http://events.unitn.it/en/iutam2012



Call for contribution



We seek advanced and original contributions in fracture research,
interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics
treatments of damage development and crack growth, and also large-scale
failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or landslide failures,
ice shelf break-up, and hydraulic fracturing (natural, or for resource
extraction or CO2 sequestration), as well as small-scale rupture
phenomena in materials physics including, e.g., inception of shear
banding, void growth, adhesion and decohesion in contact and friction,
crystal dislocation processes, and atomic/electronic scale treatment of
brittle crack tips and fundamental cohesive properties.

Special
emphasis will be given to multiscale fracture description and new
scale-bridging formulations capable to substantiate recent experiments
and tailored to become the basis for innovative computational
algorithms.



Conference fees will be kept as low as
possible for students and young researchers and will be specified in a
second announcement, that will follow shortly. Registration will be
allowed soon.



Symposium Chairman



Davide Bigoni, University of Trento, Italy



Scientific Committee



James R. Rice, Harvard University, U.S.A.

John R. Willis, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Jean B. Leblond, Université P. et M. Curie, France

Ares J. Rosakis, Caltech, U.S.A.

Anthony R. Ingraffea, Cornell University, U.S.A.

Davide Bigoni, University of Trento, Italy

Alberto Salvadori, University of Brescia, Italy

Ben Freund, IUTAM Representative



Local Organizing Committee



Angelo Carini, University of Brescia, Italy

Alberto Salvadori, University of Brescia, Italy

Massimiliano Gei, University of Trento, Italy

Marco Paggi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Giorgio Donzella, University of Brescia, Italy

Alessandro Temponi, University of Brescia, Italy

Emanuela Bosco, University of Brescia, Italy



For any further information do not hesitate to contact



Alberto.Salvadori [at] ing.unibs.it