Cambridge Conference Brochure 2013 - The University of Sheffield

Designing Composite Materials:
Avoiding Large Structural Failures
Multi-scale Modelling of Deformation & Cracking Processes:
Predicting Structural Integrity
An International Conference DFC12/SI6
12 th Deformation and Fracture of Composites and 6 th Structural Integrity
April 8-8
11, 2013
Queens’ College
Cambridge, England
For further information, contact:
Professor Costas Soutis
(constantinos.soutis@manchester.ac.uk)
University of Manchester
Professor Alma Hodzic
(a.hodzic@sheffield.ac.uk)
University of Sheffield
Dr Peter Beaumont
(pwb1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
University of Cambridge
A Conference Perspective
In essence, it is a Meeting about understanding deformation,
cracking and damage evolution and coming up with ways of
making failure prediction of material and engineering structure:
from empirical methods to mechanism modelling; and from
continuum analysis to high-fidelity damage simulations that
serve as virtual tests of structural integrity across the widest of
size scale.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/compositesconference

Developing novel materials is a demand for materials of structural Page 3
integrity that work reliably and safely at the frontiers of cutting edge
technologies. History is littered, however, with structural failures
where the crucial fracture process eluded the experimentalist.
Predicting precisely where a small crack will develop in a material
under stress and exactly when in time catastrophic fracture of the
structure will occur is an unsolved mystery in the design and building
of large engineering structures. It is when structural integrity of the
material is lost that disaster strikes!
Queens’ College
To be held in the
ancient Queens’
College, a centre
of learning for
more than 550
years, boasting a
rich, complex and
varied history.
Queens’ offers the
most comfortable
and welcoming of
Cambridge
colleges of
historical charm,
and having one of
the finest cuisines.
It sits astride the
Cam, its 2 halves
across the river by
Newton’s
Mathematical
Bridge.
Structural integrity is a term that treats the design, the materials
used, and figures out how best components and parts can be
joined:
by embracing materials science & mechanics,
by understanding fabrication technology,
by coming to grips with NDT, service monitoring, & safety
management,
by multi-scale modelling of fracture and damage mechanics &
probabilistic failure.
When human life depends upon engineering ingenuity, SI is an
essential design requirement.
Materials have to be processed, components shaped, and
structures assembled. Lack of attention to detail leads to premature
failure because of the introduction of fatal flaws and they all impact
on structural performance.
Fitness considerations for the long-life of highly-loaded structures
requires an in-depth understanding of critical phenomena such as:
- fatigue & stress corrosion cracking, and
- impact (blast, shock, ballistic, tyre debris impact, bird-strike).
A modelling strategy is required to devise a robust life prediction
methodology that is successfully predictive of: reliability, life
expectancy, and durability of safe structure.
Successful prediction requires detailed information obtained from
test programmes of all possible failure mechanisms across the widest
spectrum of size-scale that operate in service.
Multi-scale problems of structural failure can be solved by testing
and analysis across a size spectrum. Understanding structural
behaviour at the various size scale requires dexterity in manipulating
the working tools of the designer: empirical analyses (mathematics
and continuum modelling) or continuum mechanics, mechanism
models (micro-mechanical models) or micro-mechanics, tools that
determine constitutive equations based on of the rules of material
behaviour.
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Conference Co-Chairs
Prof. C. Soutis
Manchester, UK
Dr P.W.R. Beaumont,
Cambridge, UK
Prof. A. Hodzic,
Sheffield, UK
Scientific Committee
Prof. L. Asp, Swerea,
Sweden
Dr R. Butler,
Bath, UK
Prof P. Camanho,
University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Tsu-Wei Chou,
Delaware, USA
Prof. P.T. Curtis,
DSTL-Farnborough, UK
Dr. Joel Foreman,
Sheffield, UK
Prof. A.G. Gibson,
Newcastle, UK
Prof I. Guz,
Aberdeen, UK
Prof. A. Kinloch,
Imperial College, UK
Prof D. Melo,
UFRN, Brazil
Prof. S. L. Ogin,
Surrey, UK
Prof. G. Papanicolaou,
Patras, Greece
Prof. I.K. Partridge,
Bristol, UK
Dr Y.D.S. Rajapakse,
ONR, USA
Prof. K. Schulte,
Hamburg, Germany
Prof V. Silberschmidt,
Loughborough, UK
Prof. R. Talreja,
Texas A & M, USA
Prof. S. van der Zwaag,
Delft, NL
Prof Tony Waas,
University of Michigan, USA
Prof. P. M. Weaver,
Bristol, UK
Prof. R. J. Young,
Manchester, UK
The Tony Kelly Dinner
To mark the 85 th Year of Professor Tony Kelly, a special Banquet
will be held in his honour.
Registration and Pricing
This will be £525 with special student fee of £375 (inc. all
refreshments, lunches, dinners, welcome reception, Banquet and
wines). The spouse/partner ticket for all meals, welcome
reception, Banquet & wines will be £275. College
accommodation, single room en suite B&B for the three nights of
the conference including English breakfast will be £330.
Additional Banquet dinner will be £95. Information about the
ways of payment will be provided on the conference website:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/compositesconference
Contributions in these areas are encouraged
! Analytical, experimental, numerical modelling
! Predictive design codes based on physical, numerical, and
computer simulation
! Modelling of deformation & fracture mechanisms
! Nano-composite mechanics, interfaces
! Textile composites: theory & experiment
! Fracture and damage (tolerance) mechanics
! Impact, crashworthiness, and energy dissipation
! Stiffness tailoring
! Enhanced buckling concepts
! Multiscale modelling (theoretical, experimental)
! Implementation of MS modelling
! Reliability, durability, and safety issues
! Damage, self-healing and repair
! Damage sensing and smart systems
! NDT, NDE and health monitoring issues, SHM
! Evaluating, qualifying, assessing, certifying
! Stress and temperature-related behavioural phenomena &
structural changes over time
! Lifetime (residual strength) prediction
! Bio inspired materials and systems
! Multifunctional structures and materials
! Recycling, Green issues
Call for Papers and Deadlines
Please submit a 2-page abstract to the conference secretariat
(cambridge@sheffield.ac.uk) by 5 th November 2012. The authors will receive notification of
acceptance by 30 th November 2012. An updated abstract for inclusion in the conference
proceedings is required by 1 st February 2013. Early bird registration fee deadline is 1 st March
2013. Authors are also invited to submit a full-length paper for publication in special issues
of CSTE, PRC and ACMA after the conference.
The Colloquium language will be English, which will be used for all presentations & written
material. Regular updates can be found on the web:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/compositesconference

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DFC12/SI6 Designing Composite Materials: Avoiding Large Structural Failures
8-11 April 2013
Queens’ College, Cambridge University, UK
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