Fracture and Fatigue

The mission of the Fracture and Fatigue Division is to advance the state of knowledge in the areas of fracture mechanics and fatigue through the timely sharing of research results. The division meets each year at the SEM Annual Conference. Every fourth year the SEM Annual Conference is also the SEM International Congress. (Other conferences are also sponsored by SEM). Our work on fracture and fatigue overlaps with the efforts of other divisions resulting in a cooperative effort between researchers from different areas of experimental mechanics.

Bylaws

Fracture and Fatigue Division - Updated May 2013

The goal of the Fracture and Fatigue Division is to promote and support within SEM issues that deal not only with fracture and fatigue of materials, but also failure, damage evolution, novel materials and the influence of microstructure on failure phenomena. Activities include organizing sessions, symposia, short courses, and reports and publications on these topics.

The division met in Costa Mesa, CA during the 2012 SEM summer meeting and discussed the previous and upcoming activities. Seventeen division members and interested participants attended the meeting.

Fatigue & Fracture sessions were organized for the 2012 Annual Conference through a general call for papers and through specific suggestions by TD members:

Fracture and Fatigue I – 5 papers Fracture and Fatigue II – 4 papers

Microscale & Microstructural Effect In Fracture and Fatigue I (A. Zehnder, J. Lambros) – 6 papers

Microscale & Microstructural Effect In Fracture and Fatigue II (A. Zehnder, J. Lambros) – 4 papers

The TD members have continued to be active in proposing sessions for the 2012 annual meeting. Sessions were organized as follows, through specific suggestions by TD members and those sessions that evolved through the general call:

Microstructural Effects in Fatigue and Fracture (J. Carroll) – 6 papers Fracture of Interfaces – 5 papers

Fracture of Composites and Interface Cracks – 6 papers

Fatigue and Fracture: Environmental and Loading Effects – 5 papers Fracture and Digital Image Correlation – 5 papers

These activities will be presented in the next annual TD report.

The paper review committee for the 2013 Annual Conference is Jay Carroll (Chair), Soonsung Hong, Matt Cavalli, and Sam Daly.