The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
January 6th-10th, 2015

About The Conference

Fracture is a fascinating nonlinear dynamic phenomenon that occurs over many length and time scales. In brittle and quasi-brittle systems, small scale perturbations at the micro-scale often lead to large scale fragilities and catastrophic failures. Accordingly, understanding the mechanisms at different length scales and their implications for macroscopic fracture is of vital importance not only to theoretical physicists but also for many engineering, biological and geophysical applications. This meeting aims at a collective understanding of all fields related to multi-scale characterization of these processes. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, (1) multi-scale experimental investigations of fracture toughness, (2) constitutive modeling appropriate for nucleation of fracture at the micro-scale, and (3) multi-scale computational studies of fracture.
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