ASME/AMD Fracture and Failure Mechanics TC

The minutes can be found at bottom of the list of meeting minutes that is compiled here:

http://amd-ffmtc.blogspot.com/2006/02/meeting-minutes.html

# posted by walter.80 @ 11:10 AM 0 comments

This year's meeting during the summer is as follows:

McMat 2007

ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference
June 3-7, 2007 ~ University of Texas at Austin

The link to the web site for this meeting http://www.ae.utexas.edu/MCMAT07/

# posted by walter.80 @ 9:35 AM 0 comments

We would like to inform everyone that the Applied Mechanics Division Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee is currently scheduled to hold its annual meeting during the ASME IMECE in Chicago IL on Thursday, November 9, 2006, 11:00-12:00 (noon). The meeting location has not been announced, but should appear in your program when it is available.

We would like to invite everyone to attend the meeting. The minutes of our 2005 meeting are available here: http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~walter/blogger_files/FFTC_Nov_07_2005_minutes.pdf.

We would encourage anyone interested in organizing sessions for the 2007 summer meeting (McMat 2007, 6/3/07-6/7/07 Austin, TX) and/or the 2007 IMECE winter meeting (11/11/07-11/16/07, Seattle, WA) to prepare a short description of the session topic for discussion during our committee meeting in Chicago. Instructions and a template for proposing sessions are here: http://amd-ffmtc.blogspot.com/2006/02/proposing-symposia.html

The tentative agenda for the November 9th committee meeting is as follows:

Approval of minutes of the Committee Meeting held on November 7, 2005.
Officer "Graduation" and election of a new Secretary.
Report on Symposia organized at 2006 IMECE.
Request for symposia/session organization in upcoming 2007 meetings.
Other business.

If you wish to add an item to the agenda, please let me know before November 3rd.

Thanks for your participation in the Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee of AMD.

John Lambros, Chair
Mark Walter, Vice-Chair
Jean Francois Molinari, Secretary

# posted by walter.80 @ 8:14 AM 0 comments

A colleague of mine who was trolling the net to learn about how others are teaching fracture mechanics came across MIT's Open CourseWare Website (ocw.mit.edu). It seems to me that all course material for all of MIT's courses can be downloaded. Talk about intellectual property!

Of particular interest to this community is the Fracture and Fatigue course posted by Subra Suresh. It can be found here: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Materials-Science-and-Engineering/3-35Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm

# posted by walter.80 @ 8:07 AM 0 comments

I found this very interesting web page on fatigue. It looks like there are practical tools for working with fatigue as well as good technical background.

http://www.fatiguecalculator.com/index.htm Link

# posted by walter.80 @ 3:29 PM 0 comments

Lets discuss different books that are being used for teaching fracture mechanics. You can either ask to be a contributor to this blog or I can compile e-mailed responses and periodically post summaries.

Some guidelines are as follows:

Always give full bibliographic information including the edition.
Mention what level class you are using this book or if you are not using the book for a class, for what level class would it be appropriate?
What are some good features of the book?
What are some negatives? (Be constructive!)

# posted by walter.80 @ 3:22 PM 0 comments

Next year's IMECE will be held in Chicago during November 5-10th, 2006. The AMD sessions will be in the second half of the week.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 6th. More information on the conference can be found at the above link.

# posted by walter.80 @ 10:12 PM 0 comments

The 2006 summer meeting is the 15th National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics which will be held June 25-30th in Boulder, CO. As opposed to for IMECE, it is rarely difficult to get sessions for symposia at the summer meeting. If you wish to organize a session, you need to contact Stein Sture ASAP.

For participants, important dates are as follows:

15 July 2005	Announcement of mini-symposia
15 January 2006	One-page abstracts due
15 March 2006	Acceptance and declination e-mails sent
15 May 2006	Deadline for early registration
25-30 June 2006	15th USNCTAM Meeting

Next year's IMECE will be held in Chicago during November 5-10th, 2006. The AMD sessions will be in the second half of the week.

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Our committee meeting at the 2005 IMECE in Orland, FL will take place from 10:00-10:30 AM on Monday, November 7th in Europe 1.
Anyone interested in organizing symposia for the 2005 IMECE should bring symposium submission flyer to the committee meeting. If you cannot make the meeting, please e-mail your flyer to one of the Committee Officers listed above. Your flyer should include the following:
- the proposed title of the session/symposium
- the number of sessions requested
- other committee co-sponsorships sought
- a brief description of the scope of the sessions
- names/addresses/contact information of the organizers
The FFTC is proud to have sponsored the following sessions for the 2004 IMECE. More details can be found in the Program Overview (click on "Applied Mechanics" and then "Fracture and Failure Mechanics.")
- AMD-9 G Dynamic Fragmentation of Brittle Materials
  
  Session Schedule: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 07:45 AM-09:15 AM
- AMD-10 E Failure Phenomena of Inhomogeneous Materials
  
  Session Schedule: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 09:30 AM-11:00 AM
- AMD-11 E Failure Phenomena of Inhomogeneous Materials
  
  Session Schedule: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:15 AM-12:45 PM
- AMD-12 E Failure Phenomena of Inhomogeneous Materials
  
  Session Schedule: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 02:00 PM-03:30 PM
The Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee typically works very closely with the "Experimental Mechanics" committee and the "Dynamic Materials Response" committee. Please take a look at their symposia in the Program Overview

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Our committee meeting at the 2004 IMECE in Anaheim, CA will take place from 4:00-6:00 PM on Thursday, November 18th in Mezzanine 11, Third Floor, Anaheim Hilton.
Anyone interested in organizing symposia for the 2005 IMECE should bring symposium submission flyer to the committee meeting. If you cannot make the meeting, please e-mail your flyer to one of the Committee Officers listed above. Your flyer should include the following:

the proposed title of the session/symposium
the number of sessions requested
other committee co-sponsorships sought
a brief description of the scope of the sessions
names/addresses/contact information of the organizers

The FFTC is proud to have sponsored the following sessions for the 2004 IMECE. We have also provided a link to a complete list of talks and authors for the sessions we have sponsored. We hope you can attend these talks.

AMD-8D Mechanics on the Nanoscale and Microscale
(WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17; 7:45-9:15 AM).
AMD-9D Modeling Material Damage and Fracture in Structure Failure
(WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17; 9:30-11:00 AM)
AMD-10C Dynamic fragmentation of brittle materials
(WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17; 11:15-12:45 PM)
AMD-13A Fracture of Thin Films, Coatings and Interfaces
(WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17; 6:00-7:30 PM)
AMD-13B Modeling of Complex Fracture Phenomena
(WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17; 6:00-7:30 PM )
AMD-14B Fatigue and Fracture at the Micro- and Nanometer Scale
(THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18; 7:45-09:15 AM)
AMD-19D Characterization and Failure of Nanomaterials Reinforced Composites
(THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18; 5:30-7:00 PM)

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Our committee meeting at the 2003 IMECE in Washington DC will take place from 4:30-6:00 PM on Tuesday, November 18th. Note that this is not the original time scheduled for this meeting and as of 10/23/03, the ASME web site still does not show the correct time.
Anyone interested in organizing symposia for the 2004 IMECE in Anaheim should bring symposium submission flyer to the committee meeting. If you cannot make the meeting, please e-mail your flyer to one of the Committee Officers listed above. Your flyer should include the following:

the proposed title of the session/symposium
the number of sessions requested
other committee co-sponsorships sought
a brief description of the scope of the sessions
names/addresses/contact information of the organizers

The following sessions at the IMECE in Washington DC are sposored or co-sposored by the Fracture and Failure Mechanics Committee:

AMD-11A Failure Mechanics at the Nanoscale and Microscale I (Monday, November 17, 2003 07:45 AM-09:15 AM)
AMD-11A Failure Mechanics at the Nanoscale and Microscale II (Monday, November 17, 2003 09:30 AM-11:00 AM)
AMD-11A Failure Mechanics at the Nanoscale and Microscale III (Tuesday, November 18, 2003 09:30 AM-11:00 AM)
AMD-7A Integrated Experimental/Computational Failure Analysis (Monday, November 17, 2003 11:15 AM-12:45 PM)
AMD-7B Failure of Coatings and Interfaces (Monday, November 17, 2003 11:15 AM-12:45 PM)
AMD-7C Dynamic Failure Response of Multiphase and Heterogeneous Materials (Monday, November 17, 2003 11:15 AM-12:45 PM)

# posted by walter.80 @ 9:45 PM 0 comments

At a recent committee meeting it was decided that we should be helping each other as well as the broader fracture and failure mechanics community to teach fracture mechanics. One way to acomplish this is to begin an on-line discussion of which topics to teach, how to most effectively teach various topics, which books to use, etc. It is felt that the best way to initiate this discussion is by posting syllabi. At some point we might also decide to post notes.

At present, since this blog is hosted at blogspot.com, there does not appear to be a way to post files. As this discussion develops, we might look for a different way to host the blog. In the meantime, we could just cut and paste our syllabi into the posting. My syllabus is given below.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 744
Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Winter Quarter 2005

[This is an introductory, graduate level course. There are typically also a few advanced undergraduates in the class. It is a 10 week class. In order to cover all the material listed below, notes are provided in PDF form and are projected during the lecture.]

Lecture: Tuesday & Thursday 10:30-11:48 PM

Professor: M. Walter, 292-6081, walter.80_at_osu.edu

Text: "Principles of Fracture Mechanics," by R.J. Sanford; Prentice Hall, 2002.

Grading:
Homework: 30%
Lab: 15%
Mid-Term Exam: 25%
Final Exam: 30%

Course Objectives, Composition and Consultation: The objectives of this course are to introduce concepts of fracture mechanics for application to engineering problems. Fracture Mechanics is generally understood to be the study of the stress/strain response and the initiation and propagation of cracks in bodies that have an existing crack. Upon completing this course students will have been exposed to concepts listed on the syllabus below. Although working and studying in groups is encouraged, all work that is submitted for grading must be your own. Situations which call into question the originality of the work will be submitted to the Committee on Academic Misconduct.

Homework: Homework problems will be assigned at the discretion of the instructor. Expect 4-5 assignments throughout the quarter.

Laboratory: One or two labs will be arranged outside of class time. A lab write-up
will be assigned, collected, and graded.

Term and Final Exams: An open-notes term exam will be given 5-6 weeks into the
quarter. The final exam will be comprehensive exam. It may consist of a short in-class
portion and a take-home portion.

Topics:
Jan. 4 Introduction to Fracture Mechanics and Linear Elasticity
Jan. 6 Linear Elasticity: 3-d Equations, 2-d Analysis
Jan. 11 Singular Stress Fields: Stress Intensity Factor; Williams Solution
Jan. 13 No Class
Jan. 18 Westergaard Solution and Applications
Jan. 20 Stress Intensity Factors for Various Geometries and Loadings (Analytical Methods)
Jan. 25 Numerical Determination of K
Jan. 27 Experimental Determination of K
Feb. 1 Stress Fields and Critical Stress Intensity Factors: specimen sizes, K-dominance
Feb. 3 Crack-Tip Plasticity: small-scale yielding
Feb. 8 Mid-Term
Feb. 10 Energy Approaches and Energy Equivalence
Feb. 15 R-Curves
Feb. 17 Fracture Toughness Testing Lab
Feb. 22 Elastic Plastic Fracture: the J-Integral and COD
Feb. 24 Elastic Plastic Fracture Mechanics Testing
Mar. 1 Micromechanisms of Fracture
Mar. 3 Fatigue Crack Growth
Mar. 8 Damage Tolerant Design
Mar. 10 Nondestructive Evaluation

# posted by walter.80 @ 9:32 PM 1 comments

The main function of committee meetings is to discuss symposia proposed for upcoming meetings.

Organizing symposia is typically very straightforward. It is also a great way for junior-level faculty to become well-known in the mechanics community. Also, consider co-sponsorship with other technical committees. We welcome all submissions. Your submission should consist of the following:

the proposed title of the session/symposium
the number of sessions requested
other committee co-sponsorships sought
a brief description of the scope of the sessions
names/addresses/contact information of the organizers
bring roughly 15 copies of your submission to hand out during the committee meeting

The following is a template for your submission. You can copy and paste it into a word processor and then subsitite the relevant information for the turquois text.

Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee

Symposium
Proposal

for IMECEXX in YYYYYY, ZZ

Symposium Title: Enter Title Here

Number of Sessions Requested: N

Co-Sponsorship(s): enter number of session requested from other TCs

Symposium Description:

Provide a brief description.

Organizer Information:

Your Name
Your Affiliation
Your Phone Number
Your E-mail

# posted by walter.80 @ 8:07 PM 0 comments

Minutes from AMD Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee Meetings

Jun, 1999: Va Tech Mechanics and Materials Conference
Nov, 1999: 1999 IMECE
Nov, 2000: 2000 IMECE
Jun, 2001: UCSD Mechanics and Materials Conference
Nov, 2001: 2001 IMECE in New York
Nov, 2002: 2002 IMECE in New Orleans
Nov, 2003: 2003 IMECE in Washington DC
Nov, 2004: 2004 IMECE in Anaheim, CA
Nov, 2005: 2005 IMECE in Orlando, FL
Nov, 2006: 2006 IMECE in Chicago, IL

# posted by walter.80 @ 5:50 PM 0 comments

Below are the names and addresses of the Current Officers of the Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee. The terms for these officers expire in June of 2007.

Feel free to contact any of the officers if you have questions about our committee. Note that the "@" symbol in the e-mail addresses has been replaced by "_at_" to help keep us off of spam lists.

Chair

Dr. John Lambros (2007)
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Department
306 Talbot Lab, MC-236
104 South Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: 217-333-2242
Fax: 217-244-0720
Email: lambros_at_uiuc.edu

Vice Chair
Dr. Mark Walter (2007)
Ohio State University
Mechanical Engineering
2075 Robinson Laboratory
206 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel : 614-292-6081
Fax: 614-292-3163
Email: walter.80_at_osu.edu

Secretary
Dr. Jean Francois Molinari (2007)
The Johns Hopkins University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
223 Latrobe Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: 410-516-4398
Fax: 410-516-7254
Email: molinari_at_jhu.edu

# posted by walter.80 @ 5:01 PM 0 comments

The following is a list of persons who have attended our technical committee meetings in the past. Many of those listed below have also organized symposia for the IMECE and AMD Summer meetings. Note that "mailto" tags have been removed and the "@" replaced with "_at_". This will hopefully help keep your e-mail off of spam lists.

Cemal Basaran SUNY, Buffalo cjb_at_eng.buffalo.edu	Ashraf Bastawros Iowa State University bastaw_at_iastate.edu
Jack Beuth Carnegie Mellon University beuth_at_andrew.cmu.edu	Florin Bobaru University of Nebraska, Lincoln fbobaru2_at_unl.edu
Bill Y. J. Chao University of South Carolina chao_at_sc.edu	Ioannis Chasiotis University of Virginia chasioti_at_uiuc.edu
Weinong (Wayne) Chen Purdue University wchen_at_purdue.edu	Ching-Shan Cheng General Motors (on leave) cheng_cs_at_yahoo.com
Ravi Chona US Air Force Research Laboratory ravi.chona_at_wpafb.af.mil	Chi Chow University of Michigan-Dearborn clchow_at_umich.edu
Xiaomin Deng University of South Carolina deng_at_engr.sc.edu	Marty Dunn University of Colorado martin.dunn_at_colorado.edu
Ruquiang Feng University of Nebraska, Lincoln rfeng1_at_unl.edu	Philippe Geubelle University of Illinois, Urbana geubelle_at_uiuc.edu
Bruce Kang Wester Virginia University bruce.kang_at_mail.wvu.edu	George A. Kardomateas Georgia Tech george.kardomateas_at_ae.gatech.edu
Sanjeev Khanna University of Missouri KhannaS_at_missouri.edu	Kyung-Suk Kim Brown University kim_at_engin.brown.edu
Vikram K. Kinra Texas A&M kinra_at_tamu.edu	Nathan Klingbeil Wright State University nathan.klingbeil_at_wright.edu
Wolfgang Knauss Cal. Tech wgk_at_caltech.edu	Albert S. Kobayashi University of Washington ask_at_u.washington.edu
DV Kubair Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore kubair_at_aero.iisc.ernet.in	Jeff Kysar Columbia University jk2079_at_columbia.edu
John Lambros University of Illinois, Urbana lambros_at_uiuc.edu	Michael Larson Tulane University larson_at_eas.uccs.edu
Kenneth M. Liechti University of Texas, Austin kml_at_mail.utexas.edu	Jimmy Liu Air Force Research Lab ???chi_liu_at_edwards.af.mil???
Scott X. Mao University of Pittsburgh smao_at_engr.pitt.edu	Robert McMeeking University of California, Santa Barbara rmcm_at_engineering.ucsb.edu
Sinisa Mesarovic Washington State University mesarovic_at_mme.wsu.edu	Yozo Mikata Lockheed Martin aquarius_ym_at_hotmail.com
T.C. Miller Air Force Research Lab tim_miller_at_edwards.af.mil	Jean Francois Molinari Johns Hopkins University molinari_at_jhu.edu
Toshio Nakamura SUNY, Stony Brook toshio.nakamura_at_sunysb.edu	Richard W. Neu Georgia Tech rich.neu_at_me.gatech.edu
Glaucio Paulino University of Illinois, Urbana paulino_at_uiuc.edu	Mick Peterson University of Maine michael.peterson_at_maine.edu
Vikas Prakash Case Western Reserve University vxp18_at_po.cwru.edu	H. Jerry Qi University of Colorado qih_at_colorado.edu
Jianmin Qu Georgia Tech jianmin.qu_at_me.gatech.edu	Yapa Rajapakse Office of Naval Research ???rjapay_at_onr.navy.mil???
A.M. Rajendran Army Research Office arajend_at_arl.mil	K.T. Ramesh Johns Hopkins University ramesh_at_jhu.edu
K. Ravi-Chandar University of Texas at Austin kravi_at_mail.utexas.edu	G. Ravichandran California Institute of Technology ravi_at_caltech.edu
A. Rosakis California Institute of Technology rosakis_at_aero.caltech.edu	C.-E. Rousseau University of Rhode Island roussea_at_egr.uri.edu
A. Shukla University of Rhode Island shukla_at_egr.uri.edu	C. W. Smith Virginia Tech chsmith4_at_vt.edu
Hareesh Tippur Auburn University htippur_at_eng.auburn.edu	Vikas Tomar University of Notre Dame vikas.tomar_at_nd.edu
Raman Singh SUNY, Stony Brook raman.singh_at_okstate.edu	Mark Walter Ohio State University walter.80_at_osu.edu
Luoyu Roy Xu Vanderbilt University l.roy.xu_at_vanderbilt.edu	Alan Zehnder Cornell University atz2_at_cornell.edu
Ting Zhu Georgia Institute of Technology zhu_at_gatech.edu

# posted by walter.80 @ 12:56 PM 1 comments

ASME/AMD Fracture and Failure Mechanics TC

Friday, November 24, 2006

Minutes from the FFMTC meeting at the 2006 IMECE

The 2007 "Summer Meeting"

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

FFMTC Meeting at IMECE06

Fracture on MIT's Open CourseWare

Friday, June 02, 2006

The Fatigue Calculator

Fracture Books Discussion

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