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Title:
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Multiscale Damage and Failure Mechanics

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Organizers:
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J. Woody Ju	
University of California, Los Angeles		
Department of Civil and Environ. Eng.		
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593, USA			
Tel: 310-206-1751					
Email: juj@ucla.edu					

Lizhi Sun
University of California, Irvine
Department of Civil and Environ. Eng.
Irvine, CA 92697-2175, USA
Tel: 949-824-8670
Email: lsun@uci.edu 

Pierre Ladeveze				
LMT-Cachan						
ENS Cachan/CNRS	
Email:ladeveze@lmt.ens-cachan.fr		

Olivier Allix
LMT-Cachan
ENS Cachan/CNRS
Email: allix@lmt.ens-cachan.fr

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Minisymposium description:
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Multiscale modeling and characterization has been recognized as one of the fundamental tools 
to study the local damage and failure behavior of heterogeneous structures at the microscale 
and overall constitutive relations of materials. This minisymposium aims to provide a forum 
to discuss recent advances and address the future prospects in the area of multiscale 
modeling/characterization of damage and failure mechanics. Interested researchers are invited 
to submit short abstracts on topics which include, but are not limited to: 

Microstructural damage/failure characterization of heterogeneous materials;
Micromechanical damage analysis of materials;
Multiscale constitutive relations with damage parameters;
Microstructure-property relations of advanced materials and composites;
Nanomechanical characterization, analysis and modeling of damage and fracture mechanics;
Experimental characterization and validation of damage and failure mechanics.