MECHOLSKY, John J.
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida - USA

ROUXEL, Tanguy
Applied Mechanics Laboratory (LARMAUR)
Rennes Cedex - France

SGLAVO, Vincenzo M.
Universita' degli Studi di Trento
Trento - Italy

Abstract
Silicate-based glasses are of great engineering usefulness as transparent and electrically insulating materials for structural, photonic and microelectronic applications and of great scientific interest as nearly-ideally brittle materials for study of the fundamentals of fracture. In these special sessions, the fracture of surface-stressed glasses for use as structural materials and the fundamentals of fracture of porous and dense glasses at the atomic level are considered. Two sessions are planned:
A. Applications: Fracture of Layered or Treated Glasses
B. Fundamentals of Glass Fracture: Scaling of Energy and Geometry