A Special Issue of Engineering Fracture Mechanics

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"Fracture and contact mechanics for interface problems", edited by Marco Paggi, Alberto Carpinteri and Peter Wriggers has just been published:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00137944/80

The selected articles were presented in a Minisymposium of the IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Paris, France, 2010.

List of contents

Dear Colleagues,

we would like to inform you that the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF), engaged in fostering the research in the fields of Fracture Mechanics and Structural Integrity at the national and international levels (IGF is the Italian chapter of the European Structural Integrity Society) has recently setup the following dissemination strategies and activities for 2012:

Minisymposium on Fracture and Contact Mechanics for Interface Problems

Organizers: Marco Paggi, Alberto Carpinteri, Peter Wriggers

Contact person: Marco Paggi (marco.paggi@polito.it)

Dear Colleague,

on behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee it is my great pleasure to invite you to participate in the

IGF SUMMER SCHOOL and 9th YSESM, July 5—10 2010, Trieste – Italy.
 
The event  is articulated in two parts:
 
-Summer course on light weight structures -Prof. Karl - Heinz SCHWALBE, July 5—7

-9th Youth Symposium on Experimental Solid Mechanics, July 7—10

 
Registration for a single event is possible. Participants registering for both events will enjoy a discounted fee.

(Fracture and Structural Integrity) is the official Journal of the Italian Group of Fracture (ISSN 1971-8993; Reg. Trib. di Cassino n. 729/07, 30/07/2007). It is an open-access Journal published on-line every three months (July, October, January, April). Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale encompasses the broad topic of structural integrity, which is based on the mechanics of fatigue and fracture, and is concerned with the reliability and effectiveness of structural components. The aim of the Journal is to promote works and researches on fracture phenomena, as well as the development of new materials and new standards for structural integrity assessment. The Journal is interdisciplinary and accepts contributions from engineers, metallurgists, materials scientists, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians.

Dear All,

I am looking for a freeware molecular dynamics software working for Windows operative systems.

I have tried LAMMPS, but it seems to me that it works only under UNIX. 

Thank you very much in advance for any information.

Best wishes, Marco Paggi 

Dear Colleague,
the IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics-ECCM 2010, Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering, organized by ECCOMAS, will take place in Paris, France, May 16-21 2010 (see the Congress website http://www.eccm2010.org/  for more information).