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 2012

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 Uncasville, CT, during the 2011 SEM summer meeting and discussed the previous and upcoming activities. Fifteen division members and interested participants attended the meeting.

1. Five sessions were organized for the 2011 Annual Conference through the general call for papers:

General Fracture and Fatigue I – 5 papers

General Fracture and Fatigue II – 4 papers

General Fracture and Fatigue III – 6 papers

General Fracture and Fatigue IV – 4 papers

General Fracture and Fatigue V – 5 papers

2. The TD members have continued to be active in proposing sessions for the 2012 annual meeting.   Two sessions were organized through specific suggestions by TD members (these are in addition to the sessions that will evolve through the general call):

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

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

3. The paper review committee for the 2012 Annual Conference is Alan Zehnder (Chair), Soonsung Hong, and Reza Mirshams.