Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-l

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Deformation and Fracture at the Micron and Nano Scales

      • E. C. Aifantis

      Pages 3-4

   3. Statistical Mechanics of Safety Factors and Size Effect in Quasibrittle Fracture

      • Z. P. Bazant, S. -D. Pang

      Pages 5-6

   4. “Nanoreliability” — Fracture Mechanics on the Way from Micro to Nano

      • B. Michel

      Pages 7-8

   5. Fracture Mechanics and Complexity Sciences

      • A. Carpinteri, S. Puzzi

      Pages 9-9

   6. Failure of Composite Materials

      • I. M. Daniel

      Pages 11-12

   7. Interactions of Constrained Flow and Size Scale on Mechanical Behavior

      • W. W. Gerberich, W. M. Mook, M. J. Cordill, D. Hallman

      Pages 13-14

   8. Space Shuttle Columbia Post-Accident Analysis and Investigation

      • S. McDanels

      Pages 15-16

   9. The Role of Adhesion and Fracture on the Performance of Nanostructured Films

      • Neville Moody, Megan J. Cordill, Marian S. Kennedy, David P. Adams, David F. Bahr, William W. Gerberich

      Pages 17-18

   10. Assessment of Weldment Specimens Containing Residual Stress

       • K. M. Nikbin

       Pages 19-20

   11. MEMS: Recent Advances and Current Challenges

       • R. J. Pryputniewicz

       Pages 21-22

   12. Fracture, Aging and Disease in Bone and Teeth

       • R. O. Ritchie, R. K. Nalla

       Pages 23-24

   13. Laboratory Earthquakes

       • A. J. Rosakis, K. Xia, H. Kanamori

       Pages 25-26

   14. A Historical Retrospective of the Beginnings of Brittle Fracture Mechanics - The Period 1907–1947

       • H. P. Rossmanith

       Pages 27-28

   15. Dynamic Crack Propagation in Particle Reinforced Nanocomposites and Graded Materials

       • A. Shukla

       Pages 29-30

   16. Spatial and Temporal Scaling Affected by System Inhomogeneity: Atomic, Microscopic and Macroscopic

       • G. C. Sih

       Pages 31-32

3. Tracks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Fracture and Fatigue of Nanostuctured Materials

      1. Channeling Effect in Fracture of Materials with Nanostructured Surface Layers

         • V. E. Panin, A. V. Panin

         Pages 35-36

      2. Atomistics and Configurational Forces in Gradient Elasticity

         • P. Steinmann, E. C. Aifantis

         Pages 37-38

This volume contains two-page abstracts of the 698 papers presented at the “16th European Conference of Fracture,” (ECF16) held in Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3-7, 2006. The accompanying CD attached at the back cover of the book contains the full length papers. The abstracts of the fifteen plenary lectures are included in the beginning of the book. The remaining 683 abstracts are arranged in 25 tracks and 35 special symposia/sessions with 303 and 380 abstracts, respectively. The papers of the tracks have been contributed from open call, while the papers of the symposia/sessions have been solicited by the respective organizers. Both tracks and symposia/sessions fall into two categories, namely, fracture of nanomaterials and structures and engineering materials and structures with 88 and 595 papers, respectively. Started in 1976, the European Conference of Fracture (ECF) takes place every two years in a European country. Its scope is to promote world-wide cooperation among scientists and engineers concerned with fracture and fatigue of solids. ECF16 was under the auspices of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) and was sponsored by the American Society of Testing and Materials, the British Society for Stain Measurement, the Society of Experimental Mechanics, the Italian Society for Experimental Mechanics, and the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers. ECF16 focused in all aspects of structural integrity with the objective of improving the safety and performance of engineering structures, components, systems and their associated materials.

• ECF
• Nanomaterial
• complexity
• composite material
• fatigue
• fracture
• fracture mechanics
• mechanics
• microelectromechanical system (MEMS)
• nano and engineering materials
• nano electrical systems

• Dept of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

  E. E. Gdoutos

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