Plenary Lectures will be delivered by colleagues of international prestige in the field of the conference.


Confirmed Plenary Lecturers:

Francisco Armero (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Finite Elements with Embedded Discontinuities for Computational Fracture

Alain Combescure (INSA, Lyon, France)
A Meso Scale Approach of Dynamic Fracture of Structures

Marc Geers (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Bridging scales in damaging interfaces and microstructures

Robert B. Haber (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA)
Adaptive Spacetime Models for Dynamic Fracture


Alan Needleman (University of North Texas, USA)
Computational Modeling of Ductile Failure