BORINO, Guido
Università di Palermo
Palermo - Italy

CHABOCHE, Jean-Loius
ONERA, DMSE/LCME
Chatillon Cedex - France

JIRASEK, Milan
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Czech Technical University
Prague - Czech Republic
Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz

KRAJCINOVIC, Dusan
Arizona State university
Tempe, Arizona - USA

VOYIADJIS, George Z.
Louisiana State University
Louisiana - USA

Abstract
This minisymposium will bring together researchers working on damage-type models in different application fields (metals, composites, concrete and masonry, rocks, biomaterials, ...) but using similar methodologies and facing similar problems. Special emphasis will be given to the identification of unsolved problems and future research directions.
The minisymposium will consist of four special sessions:
1) Nonlocal damage models (understood as integral-type as well as gradient-type formulations), objective description of softening and localization, characterization and determination of constant or evolving length scales,
coupled damage/viscoplastic models.
2) Anisotropic damage models (characterization of anisotropic damage and its evolution, consistent description of damage deactivation upon crack closure, parameter identification).
3) Scale transition in damage mechanics (micromechanical derivation or justification of macroscopic models, efficient schemes for multi-scale computations, transition from localized damage to fracture).
4) Interface damage mechanics, damage development in layered systems, cohesive zone models, transition from volume to surface damage.