Planning Visit to China to develop a Joint Research Project on Materials Failure.

小行星9531509 该奖项支持计划访问中国，以开发关于材料失效演变的联合研究项目。 美国主要研究员陈曾博士是哥伦比亚密苏里州大学土木工程系助理教授。 他对此次研究计划访问的期望是确定与中国一个重要的、设备齐全的实验室--力学研究所连续介质非线性力学实验室的合作计划。 该实验室有一个大型跨学科小组，根据变形机制的运动学，探索不同尺度的金属失效响应。 这项研究应有助于更好地理解材料失效的微观力学和改善失效预测。

9531509 Chen This award supports a planning visit to China to develop a joint research project on the evolution of material failure. The US PI, Dr. Zeng Chen, is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Missouri at Columbia. His expectation from the research planning visit is to define a program of cooperation with an important, well-equipped laboratory in China, the Laboratory for Non- linear Mechanics of Continuous Media, within the Institute of Mechanics. This lab has a large interdisciplinary group exploring metal failure responses at different scales based on the kinematics of deformation mechanisms. This research should contribute to better understanding of the micromechanics of material failure and to improving failure prediction.