Defects and Heterogeneities in Fracture and Flow

21st- 24th January 2013, The Indian institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai


Day 1 (21st January)



Welcome speech


10:00-11:00

Universality classes of constrained crack growth

Alex Hansen

talk in ppt

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m00.25.avi,m04.00.avi,perk-filt.mp4,perk-ufilt.mp4

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK


11:30-12:30

Crazing and failure in glassy amorphous polymers

Sumit Basu

12:30-13:45

LUNCH BREAK


13:45-14:45

Labyrinths and other emerging patterns in deformable granular media

E G Flekkoy

talk in ppt

closebranchmovie.mpeg expmovie.mpeg simmovie.mpeg

14:45-15:45

Fracture in polycrystalline and amorphous brittle thin films.

Krishna Jonnalegadda

15:45-16:15

COFFEE BREAK


16:15-17:15

Atomistic modeling of the brittle to ductile transition of Silicon

Christian Thaulow

talk in ppt


Day 2 (22nd January)





10:00-11:00

From microstructural to macroscopic properties in failure of brittle heterogeneous materials.

Laurent Ponson

talk in pptx

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK


11:30-12:30

Immiscible two-phase flow in porous media: the steady-state

Santanu Sinha

12:30-13:45

LUNCH BREAK


13:45-14:45

Fracture networks

Sigmund Hope

talk in pdf

14:45-15:45

Relaxation behavior at and very close to the critical load of the fiber bundle model.

S S Manna

talk in pptx

15:45-16:15

COFFEE BREAK


16:15-17:15

The strength of fractured rock.

Erling Fjaer

talk in ppt



Day 3 (23rd January)






10:00-11:00

Effect of microstructural disorder on the dynamics of brittle cracks: From intermittency in slow fracturing regime to damage-induced boosting in dynamic failure.

Daniel Bonamy

talk in pptx

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11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK


11:30-12:30

Precursors of breakdown in tensile, shear and fluid-driven fracture scenarios.

Bjorn Skjetne

12:30-13:45

LUNCH BREAK


13:45-14:45

Crack initiation and fracture propagation in reservoir rocks.

Srutarshi Pradhan

talk in pdf

14:45-15:45

Role of twinning in microyielding in magnesium.

S. Karthikeyan

15:45-16:15

COFFEE BREAK


16:15-17:15

The effect of electric field on crack formation patterns in drying laponite

Sujata Tarafdar

talk in pptx


Day 4 (24th January)






10:00-11:00

Depinning transitions in interfaces with long range elastic interactions.

B K Chakrabarti

talk in pdf

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK


11:30-13:00

Poster Session


13:00-14:00

LUNCH