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.