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

5位美国作者和研讨会组织者将参加于2005年3月20日至25日在意大利都灵举行的第11届国际骨折大会（ICF）。与会者将包括来自美国大学的5名教师，他们在组织两场小型专题讨论会和几场技术会议方面发挥了关键作用，讨论的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纳米力学。由于断裂和失效分析是土木和机械工程各个分支设计的核心组成部分，本次会议的综合性质为土木和机械工程师提供了一个独特的论坛，以交流思想，并从其他研究人员开发的方法中学习，这些方法可能在各自的研究领域中具有有用的应用。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及时地传播最近的研究成果，这反过来又可能导致未来与参加第11届国际骨折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.