A Group Travel Support to Participate in the 11th International Conference on Fracture; March 20-25, 2005; Turin, Italy

CMS 0503951该奖项提供部分资金，用于资助五位美国作家和研讨会组织者参加将于2005年3月20-25日在意大利都灵举行的第11届国际骨折大会(ICF)的旅费。与会者将包括来自美国大学的5名教职员工，他们在组织两个小型研讨会和几个技术会议方面发挥了关键作用，主题从岩土材料和高性能胶凝材料的失效分析到材料和结构的微观和纳米力学。由于断裂和失效分析是土木工程和机械工程各个分支设计的核心组成部分，这次会议的整合性质为土木工程和机械工程师提供了一个独特的论坛，让他们交流想法，学习其他研究人员开发的方法，这些研究人员可能在他们各自的研究领域中有有用的应用。这个团体旅行基金的更广泛的影响是允许美国参与者在一个独特的国际论坛上快速和及时地传播最近的研究成果，这反过来可能导致未来与参加第11届国际断裂大会的意大利科学家和工程师的研究合作。

CMS 0503951This award provides funds to partially support the travel of five U.S. authors and symposium organizers to participate in the 11th international Congress on Fracture (ICF) that will be held during March 20-25, 2005 in Turin, Italy. The participants will include a diverse group of 5 faculty members, from US universities, who have played key roles in organizing two mini-symposia and several technical sessions on various topics ranging from failure analysis of geomaterials and high-performance cementitious materials to micro- and nano- mechanics of materials and structures. As fracture and failure analysis is a central component of the design in various branches of civil and mechanical engineering, the integrating nature of this conference provides a unique forum for civil and mechanical engineers to exchange ideas and to learn from the methodologies developed by other investigators which may have useful applications in their respective field of research.The broader impacts of this group travel fund is to allow rapid and timely dissemination of the recent research findings by the US participants in a unique international forum, which in turn may lead to future research collaborations with the Italian scientists and engineers participating in the 11th International Congress on Fracture.