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FraMCoS 9 - 9th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, Berkeley, USA
Many conferences include discussions of damage, cracking and fracture of concrete, but mostly outside the context of fracture mechanics. Other conferences cover the subject of fracture mechanics, but rarely with its application to concrete. IA-FraMCoS was founded to help fill this gap.
Concrete is an archetypical quasibrittle material. It consists of brittle constituents and is characterized by a non-negligible material characteristic length, which endows the material with a behavior that is transitional between the stress-strain relations for distributed damage at small scales and linear elastic fracture mechanics at large scales. This transitional behavior poses difficult challenges for theoretical, experimental and computational research.
Originally, IA-FraMCoS only activity was the triennial conference series with focus on concrete. Presently, it seeks to expand its activities to cover not only fundamental developments in concrete but also promotion of fracture-based approaches in engineering practice. Such an approach is long overdue in infrastructure life-cycle assessment (durability), environmental protection (long term waste storage, carbon dioxide sequestration), energy (nuclear vessels, fracking) and engineered design of new materials.
This will be accomplished not only through the perennial conferences, but also through seminar series, short courses (primarily to industry), and endorsements of high quality scientific research.
FraMCoS-9 welcomes paper contributions within, or spanning, the following themes:
A: Theoretical fracture mechanics
B: Experimental methodologies
C: Computational modeling
D: Durability/coupled problems
E: Novel cementitious and/or other quasi-brittle materials
F: Structural concrete applications.
Key Dates and Deadlines:
• September 31, 2015 - Submission of abstracts
• December 1, 2015 - Preliminary acceptance
• February 1, 2016 - Submission of manuscripts
• April 1, 2016 - Notification of final acceptance
• May 1, 2016 - Manuscripts available for download
• May 28 - June 1, 2016 - Meeting in Berkeley
Concrete is an archetypical quasibrittle material. It consists of brittle constituents and is characterized by a non-negligible material characteristic length, which endows the material with a behavior that is transitional between the stress-strain relations for distributed damage at small scales and linear elastic fracture mechanics at large scales. This transitional behavior poses difficult challenges for theoretical, experimental and computational research.
Originally, IA-FraMCoS only activity was the triennial conference series with focus on concrete. Presently, it seeks to expand its activities to cover not only fundamental developments in concrete but also promotion of fracture-based approaches in engineering practice. Such an approach is long overdue in infrastructure life-cycle assessment (durability), environmental protection (long term waste storage, carbon dioxide sequestration), energy (nuclear vessels, fracking) and engineered design of new materials.
This will be accomplished not only through the perennial conferences, but also through seminar series, short courses (primarily to industry), and endorsements of high quality scientific research.
FraMCoS-9 welcomes paper contributions within, or spanning, the following themes:
A: Theoretical fracture mechanics
B: Experimental methodologies
C: Computational modeling
D: Durability/coupled problems
E: Novel cementitious and/or other quasi-brittle materials
F: Structural concrete applications.
Key Dates and Deadlines:
• September 31, 2015 - Submission of abstracts
• December 1, 2015 - Preliminary acceptance
• February 1, 2016 - Submission of manuscripts
• April 1, 2016 - Notification of final acceptance
• May 1, 2016 - Manuscripts available for download
• May 28 - June 1, 2016 - Meeting in Berkeley
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Berkeley, USA
Berkeley, USA
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