Track 8: Instability and Failure of Materials

  • 8.1: Mechanics of damage, fracture and friction in materials across scales. Learn More
  • 8.2: Instabilities in imperfection sensitive structures: from shell buckling to functionality. Learn More
  • 8.3: Surficial and Interfacial Mechanics. Learn More
  • 8.4: Bioinspired self-healing structural and thermal materials. Learn More
  • 8.5: Mechanics of soft interfaces: deformation, adhesion, fracture, and friction. Learn More
  • 8.6: Recent advances in theoretical and computational modeling of fracture and fatigue. Learn More