[Deadline: 20 October 2017] ICDM3, July 4-6th, 2018, Shanghai, China - Session on Computational modeling of damage and failure in solids and structures

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the following minisymposium at the Third International Conference on Damage Mechanics (ICDM3) to be held in Shanghai, China, July 4-6th, 2018:

MS5: Computational modeling of damage and failure in solids and structures

organised by Jian-Ying Wu (South China University of Technology), Phu Nguyen (Monash University) and Zhenjun Yang (Zhejiang University). The topics are:

• Discrete crack approaches such as zero-thickness interface elements, enriched finite element method with nodal (XFEM/GFEM) or elemental enrichments (E-FEM);
• Smeared crack approaches implemented in novel numerical contexts, e.g., mixed finite elements, mesh-free method, discontinuous Galerkin method, isogeometric analysis, virtual elements, scaled boundary finite elements, etc.;
• Regularized crack approaches such as phase-field models, thick level-set method, variational approaches to damage and fracture, nonlocal and gradient-enhanced models, and peridynamic models;
• Combined continuous and discontinuous approaches that characterize the entire failure process from the initial diffuse stage to the final fully localized failure;
• Static and dynamic fracture; brittle and ductile fracture; shock, impact and fragmentation;
• Multi-scale and stochastic analysis of fracture such as computational homogenization (FE2), bridging domain method, etc.
• Experimental validation of numerical methods for damage and fracture; inverse analysis and model calibration.

The premilinary deadline for submitting an abstract is October 20, 2017.

Please refer to the conference website for details: 

www.icdm3.cn

We look forward to meeting you in Shanghai.