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Title:
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Failure Mechanisms Under Dynamic Loading

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Organizers:
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David J. Benson
283 Engineering Building Unit 2
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
phone: 858-534-5928
fax: 838-534-7078

Rebecca M. Brannon
50 S. Central Campus Dr.
Rm 2134 Merrill Engineering Bldg.
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
email: brannon@mech.utah.edu
phone: 801-581-6623
 
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Minisymposium description:
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The failure of materials under dynamic loading frequently involves different 
mechanisms than in quasi-static problems. Common examples include 
fragmentation due to explosive loading and the comminution of ceramics 
during ballistic penetration. These problems are generally not amenable 
to the standard methods for modeling fracture due to the large number of 
new free surfaces that are formed during the failure process. This 
mini-symposium focuses on the development of new methods for these 
problems and their applications, spanning the nano- to meso- length 
scales.  The specific areas of interest for the sessions are: 

1.Atomistic and Nano-scale Failure Modeling 

2.Finite Element Methods for Modeling Failure and Fragmentation

3.Multi-scale Methods

4.Material Models for Failure and Fragmentation

5.Mesh Sensitivity and Failure

6.Applications and Validation Experiments