Europe-U.S. Workshop on Fracture and Damage of Quasibrittle Materials: Experiment, Modeling and Computation

研讨会的目的是提供一个深入讨论研究前沿的论坛，并对当前最先进和有前途的研究方向进行批判性评价。最近，这一主题引起了极大的兴趣，文学作品呈爆炸式增长。这种增加的活动是由重建国家基础设施的需要以及提高美国工业在材料领域的竞争力所刺激的。这一学科的进展可能会导致更高强度的混凝土、更坚韧的陶瓷、更安全的结构设计，如地震，设计更可靠的机器零件等。本次研讨会将促进结构工程和混凝土技术、材料科学、连续介质力学和应用力学领域的科学家之间的跨学科对话，并促进新的发展。

9313122 Bazant The aim of the Workshop will be to provide a forum for an in-depth discussion of the frontiers of research and a critical appraisal on the current state-of-the-art and promising research directions. Recently, a great surge of interest took place in this subject, with an exploding literature. This increased activity has been stimulated by the needs of rebuilding national infrastructure as well as increasing competitiveness of the U.S. industry in the field of materials. Advances in the subject may be expected to lead to improved high strength concrete, tougher ceramics, safer design of structures subjected to overload such as earthquakes, design of more reliable machine parts, etc. The symposium is expected to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue between scientists working in structural engineering and concrete technology, materials science, continuum mechanics and applied mechanics, and to stimulate new developments.