Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the following minisympoisum taking place as part of the 15th Pan American Conference of Applied Mechnaics (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign May 18021 2015). Deadline for abstract submission is Dec 31st 2014.
Friction, Fracture, and Damage
Material failure is a nonlinear and often dynamic, phenomenon occurring on many scales. In many systems, small-scale perturbations may lead to large scale system fragilities and catastrophic fractures. Understanding the underpinnings of material response at the microscale, including origins of friction and adhesion, and their implications for fracture and damage acumulation at macro scale is thus of vital importance to many engineering, biological, and geophysical applications. This MS solicits contributions in all fields related to multiscale computational modeling and experimental investigations relevant to friction, fracture and damage processes. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to
1- Computational earthquake dynamics.
2- Experimental dynamic fracture and application of high speed photoelasticity.
3- Physics based modeling of friction in geological materials
4- Physics based modeling of friction and adhesion in biological tissues
5- Multiscale modeling of failure in bone-like composites including polymer-mineral composites.
6- Micromechanical modeling of damage accumulation in quasi-brittle materials.
We are looking forward to seeing you there either as presenters or attendees.
Best,
Ahmed Elbanna