Advances in Cohesive-element Modeling of Material Failure
Jean-Francois Molinari, Raul Radovitzky and Marion Chambart
jean-francois.molinari@epfl.ch  ; rapa@MIT.EDU ; marion.chambart@epfl.ch 

Advances in the eXtended Finite Element Method for the 
Simulation of Fracture Processes
Peter Wriggers and Stefan Löhnert
wriggers@ikm.uni-hannover.de ; loehnert@ikm.uni-hannover.de 

Computational Failure Mechanics in Multiphysics Problems
Paul Steinmann and Julia Mergheim
steinmann@ltm.uni-erlangen.de ; julia.mergheim@ltm.uni-erlangen.de


Ductile Fracture
Session I: Modeling of Mechanisms from the Atomic-scale to the Macro-scale
Session II: Evolution of Damage and the Transition to Fracture
Pierre-Olivier Bouchard, José César de Sá, Alan Needleman and Thomas Pardoen
pierre-olivier.bouchard@mines-paristech.fr ; cesarsa@fe.up.pt ; needle@unt.edu ; 
thomas.pardoen@uclouvain.be 

Dynamic Fracture
Session I: Discretization Techniques, Multi-scale Models and Adaptive Analysis Methods
Session II: Fracture Criteria and Damage Models --- Nucleation, Extension and Branching
Session III: Applications to Materials Failure and Engineering Design - Fragmentation, 
Micro-cracking, Engineering Applications
Alain Combescure, Francisco Armero and Robert Haber 
alain.combescure@insa-lyon.fr ; armero@ce.berkeley.edu ; r-haber@illinois.edu

Enriched Finite Element Formulations to Capture Cracks, Material Interfaces and 
Multiscale Phenomena
Jorge Alfaiate and Bert Sluys
alfaiate@civil.ist.utl.pt ; L.J.Sluys@citg.tudelft.nl

Fracture and Shrinkage Induced Cracking in Multiphase Materials
Session I: Fracture Modeling in the Context of Multiphase Materials at Different Scales
Session II: Shrinkage Induced Cracking of Concrete
Günter Hofstetter, Tony Jefferson, Günther Meschke and Bernhard Schrefler
guenter.hofstetter@uibk.ac.at ; JeffersonAD@cf.ac.uk ; guenther.meschke@rub.de ; 
bas@dic.unipd.it

High Temperature Mismatch and Chemically Induced Cracking and Damage in 
Heterogeneous Particulate Composites
Kaspar Willam, Ignacio Carol and Erik Schlangen 
willam@colorado.edu ; ignacio.carol@upc.edu ; H.E.J.G.Schlangen@tudelft.nl

Meshfree and Particle Methods for Material Failure
Ted Belytschko and Timon Rabczuk
tedbelytschko@northwestern.edu ; timon.rabczuk@uni-weimar.de

Modeling Fracture of Concrete at High Loading Rates
Joško Ožbolt
ozbolt@iwb.uni-stuttgart.de

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Failure Processes
Jacob Fish, Marc Geers and Ron Peerlings
jfishj@rpi.edu ; M.G.D.Geers@tue.nl ; R.H.J.Peerlings@tue.nl

Multiscale Modeling of Composites
Javier Llorca, Carlos D. González and Olivier Allix
javier.llorca@imdea.org ; carlosdaniel.gonzalez@imdea.org ; allix@lmt.ens-cachan.fr

Novel Discretization Concepts in Fracture and Failure
René de Borst
R.d.Borst@tue.nl

Numerical Modeling of Material Failure in Plain and  Reinforced Concrete
Alfredo Huespe and Xavier Oliver
ahuespe@intec.unl.edu.ar ; xavier.oliver@upc.edu

Present and Future of Crack Tracking Algorithms
Anna Pandolfi and Michael Ortiz
pandolfi@stru.polimi.it ; ortiz@aero.caltech.edu

Regularized Failure Models
Harm Askes, Antonio Rodriguez-Ferran, Milan Jirasek and Nicolas Moës
H.Askes@sheffield.ac.uk ; antonio.rodriguez-ferran@upc.edu ; 
Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz ; nicolas.moes@ec-nantes.fr

Stochastic Models of Material Failure
Miguel Ángel Gutierrez and Lori Graham-Brady 
m.a.gutierrez@tudelft.nl