<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear colleague:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div><br></div><div>As part of the next XIII World Conference on Computational Mechanics, to be held in Manhattan, NYC, USA, between July 22 and 27, 2018 (visit <a href="http://www.wccm2018.org/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.wccm2018.org/">http://www.wccm2018.org/</a> ), we are pleased to announce the Mini-Symposium #232, entitled: "Computer modeling of material and structural failure" (abstract below), which is listed in the Conference minisymposium track 200 Fracture, Damage and Failure Mechanics ( <a href="http://www.wccm2018.org/minisymposia" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.wccm2018.org/minisymposia">http://www.wccm2018.org/minisymposia</a> ).<br></div><div><br></div><div>In order to submit an abstract, please follow the section "abstracts submission" ( <a href="http://www.wccm2018.org/abstract-submission" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.wccm2018.org/abstract-submission">http://www.wccm2018.org/abstract-submission</a> ), which is open until December 31, 2017. Also visit: Important Dates<br> <br>Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information,<br>Looking forward to meeting you in NYC.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Eduardo Dvorkin, Paulo Pimenta, Osvaldo Manzoli & Guillermo Etse<br></div><div><br></div><div>___________________<br>MS TITLE:<br>Computer Modeling of Material and Structural Failure,<br></div><div><br></div><div>MS Organizers: Guillermo Etse, Paulo Pimenta, Eduardo Dvorkin, Osvaldo Manzoli<br></div><div><br></div><div>MS Abstract:<br>This symposium is devoted to the discussion of developments on computational modeling of material failure in solids for different types of materials and loading scenarios. Material failure is here understood as the loss of the structural strength due to the formation of localization bands, propagating cracks or shear bands.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Topics of interest include:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Characterization of strong discontinuities in solids for brittle and ductile failures.<br>Finite elements with embedded discontinuities.<br>Nodally enriched finite element formulations to capture discontinuities, X-FEM, partition of unity methods and others.<br>Cohesive interfacial elements.<br>Adaptive finite element methods.<br>Meshless methods for discontinuous solutions.<br>Regularization and strain localization techniques.<br>Consideration of dynamic effects, dynamic fracture.<br>Localized discontinuous failure in beams and frames, plastic hinges.<br>Numerical techniques for cracks in plates and shells.<br>Consideration of coupled problems, including failure in coupled thermo-mechanical and porous media.<br>Applications in bio-, micro- and nano- mechanics.<br>Crack branching modeling<br>Crack tracking algorithms<br>Steel reinforced concrete<br>Fiber reinforced concrete<br>Computational multi-scale based material failure models</div></div></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>