Call for abstracts: “Issues in computational modeling of damage, fracture and fragmentation of solid materials”

As part of the 51st Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES 2014) to be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, on October 1-3 2014, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to the Symposium “Issues in computational modeling of damage, fracture and fragmentation of solid materials”.

Computational modeling of damage, fracture, and fragmentation of solid materials is crucial for accelerating the deployment of new material systems into commercial applications. Over the past decades, several numerical approaches have been proposed to address this problem, each of them having advantages and limitations. This symposium will discuss recent advances in the computational modeling of damage, fracture and damage in solids and structures across the scales, making special emphasis on the challenges faced by current approaches such as cohesive elements, XFEM, damage models, and particle methods, as well as the strategies proposed to overcome them. Contributions on applications of modeling of fracture and damage to understand complex multi-scale and multi-physics phenomena are also welcomed.

We would like to invite you, or someone in your group, to submit an abstract.  The deadline for the on-line submission is May 31, 2014. Abstracts can be submitted using the following link:

http://goo.gl/6cjmY5

If you have any question or need any information do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to seeing you at SES in October!

Best regards,

Julian J. Rimoli, Georgia Tech
Glaucio Paulino, University of Illinois
Bo Li, Case Western Reserve University