The Eighth International Conference on Fundamentals of Fracture

The Eighth International Conference on Fundamentals of Fracture (ICFF VIII) is the successor of the previous seven held at NBS, Gaithersburg (USA, 1983), Gatlinburg (USA, 1985), Irsee (Germany, 1989), Urabandai (Japan, 1993), NIST, Gaithersburg (USA, 1997), Cirencester (UK, 2001), and Nancy (France, 2005). You are warmly invited to participate in ICFF VIII which will be held 3-7 January 2008 in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, and in Guangzhou, China. As the previous conferences, ICFF VIII provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of the latest scientific and technological development in fundamentals of fracture. The general theme of ICFF VIII is to cover all aspects of fracture at a fundamental level, including contributions from those working in the disciplines of Continuum Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, Bioscience, Metallurgy, Ceramics, Polymer Science, etc. You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to join in this memorable event.

Major topics of ICFF VIII include theory, modelling, calculations, simulations, and experiments in,

• Fracture, creep, and fatigue at the atomistic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic scales,
• Fracture, creep, and fatigue of engineering materials,
• Fracture, creep, and fatigue of smart materials,
• Fracture, creep, and fatigue of biomaterial,
• Environment effects,
• Fracture, creep, and fatigue under mechanical, thermal, electrical, and/or magnetic loading,
• Reliability and failure analysis of electronic devices and electronic packaging,
• Dynamic fracture.

For details, please visit http://www.me.ust.hk/~icff8/