IUTAM SYMPOSIUM 2026. May 31 - June 05. Granada, Spain
IUTAM SYMPOSIUM 2026.
May 31 - June 05. Granada, Spain
Failure Dynamics and Resilience under Extreme Events
Scientific program IUTAM SYMPOSIUM 2026
Program details
- 19:30-... Welcome reception
- 09:00-09:30 Coffee
- 09:30-10:00 Welcome
- 10:00-10:30 Abigail Hunter. Reduced-order modeling for brittle fracture applications.
- 10:30-11:00 Kerstin Weinberg. Peridynamic models for dynamic fracture simulations.
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee
- 11:30-12:00 Ghatu Subhash. Unraveling experimental anomalies in the shock loaded boron carbide using a machine learned interatomic potential.
- 12:00-12:30 Antonio Gil. A novel Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian system of conservation laws for fast solid dynamics (application to Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and Finite Volume Methods).
- 12:30-13:00 Mohammed Zikry. Microstructural behavior and failure of refractory alloys under extreme environments.
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 14:30-15:00 Jean-Francois Molinari. Dynamic fragmentation using a non-smooth cohesive-element contact approach.
- 15:00-15:30 Michael Ortiz. Shock-induced subgrain microstructures as possible homogenous sources of hot spots and initiation sites in energetic polycrystals.
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee
- 16:00-16:30 Amine Benzerga. Spall to perforation transition: Experiments and analysis.
- 16:30-17:00 Christophe Czarnota. Void configuration sffects on plastic shock structure in porous metals.
- 09:00-09:30 Coffee
- 09:30-10:00 Vatsa Gandhi. Damage and failure mechanisms in soda-lime glass subjected to dynamic shear.
- 10:00-10:30 Kaliat T. Ramesh. Coming in high, fast, and hot: high-throughput experiments in failure dynamics.
- 10:30-11:00 Saryu Fensin. Effect of macroscopic surface defects on dynamic damage evolution under shock loading.
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee
- 11:30-12:00 Sidney Chocron. Mechanical characterization tests of Aba Panu meteorite with simulations of hypervelocity impact cratering and fragmentation.
- 12:00-12:30 James Walker. The size dependence of hypervelocity-impact cratering and ejecta in Al 2024-T351: Results of experiments and from a finite-slip-distance shear band failure model implemented in a hydrocode.
- 12:30-13:00 Julian Rimoli. Engineering tension-compression asymmetry to delocalize failure in strut-based metamaterials.
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 14:30-15:00 Shmuel Osovski. How adiabatic Is quasi-adiabatic deformation?
- 15:00-15:30 Pilar Ariza. Multiscale analysis and lifetime prediction of adhesive lap joints in contact with aggressive environments.
- 19:30-... Banquet and Flamenco
- 09:00-09:30 Coffee
- 09:30-10:00 Abigail Plummer. Swelling-induced fracture.
- 10:00-10:30 Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar. Nucleation of cracks in soft materials.
- 10:30-11:00 Tal Cohen. When extreme chemical kinetics interact with mechanics: understanding coupled phenomena in frontal polymerization
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee
- 11:30-12:00 Irene Beyerlein. Modeling residual stress development in ductile polycrystals under thermal cycling.
- 12:00-12:30 Javier Segurado. Multiscale modeling of fatigue: Microstructure crack nucleation and macroscopic propagation.
- 12:30-13:00 Raymudo Arroyave. A statistical test of Hall-Petch.
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 14:30-15:00 Matt Pharr. Mechanics of materials for rechargeable batteries.
- 15:00-15:30 Robert McMeeking. Fracture of solid electrolytes in solid-state lithium-ion batteries.
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee
- 16:00-16:30 Namrata Gundiah. Cavitation dynamics in viscoelastic media: Bridging mechanics and mechanobiology.
- 16:30-17:00 Michal Levin. From extreme chemistry to versatile mechanical structures: Scaling frontal polymerization for wind energy.
- 09:00-09:30 Coffee
- 09:30-10:00 Federico Sket. Exploring damage in materials: Insights from X-ray imaging and diffraction.
- 10:00-10:30 Vikram Deshpande. 4D imaging of high-rate deformations.
- 10:30-11:00 Meng Wang. How fast can materials break? Supershear cracks in tensile fracture.
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee
- 11:30-12:00 George Pharr. Insights into the origins of friction in hard materials from two-axis nanoindentation.
- 12:00-12:30 Jay Fineberg. How does friction (or fracture) start?
- 12:30-13:00 Emanuela Bosco. Degradation and failure in heritage paintings: an integrated experimental–numerical approach.
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 16:30-19:30 Alhambra Visit
- 19:30-... Banquet
- 09:00-09:30 Coffee
- 09:30-10:00 Yannis Korkolis. “Make-or-break” vs. “break-to-make” – one case where dynamic failure is to be induced vs. to be avoided.
- 10:00-10:30 Christian Niordson. Ductile damage evolution: Effects of void size and spatial distribution.
- 10:30-11:00 Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska. Ductile failure of the HCP crystals and polycrystals - the yield condition for porous materials and its numerical validation.
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee
- 11:30-12:00 Lars Edvard Dæhli. Influence of constituent particle content on ductile failure in high-strength aluminum alloys across loading states and rates.
- 12:00-12:30 Guadalupe Vadillo. On the influence of matrix anisotropy on ductile failure in porous solids under hydrostatic stress-dominated conditions.
- 12:30-13:00 Ankit Srivastava. Cracking and kinking in layered ternary carbides.
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch