Robert Ritchie

Berkeley, USA

"Biological degradation of the hierarchical structure and fracture properties of human bone"
(Opening Lecture)

Wolfgang Brocks

Geesthacht, Germany

"Use of Cohesive Elements for the Simulation of Crack Extension"

Alberto Carpinteri

Torino, Italy

"Piezonuclear reactions produced by brittle fracture: From laboratory to planetary scale"

Vladimir Fortov, Gennady Kanel

Moscow, Russia

"High-rate deformation and fracture under extreme conditions"

Emmanuel Gdoutos

Xanthi, Greece

"Solution of Fracture Mechanics Problems by the Optical Method of Caustics. - New Developments"

Irina Goryacheva, Elena Torskaya

Moscow, Russia

"Modelling of wear and contact fatigue in friction interaction"

Bhushan Karihaloo

Cardiff, UK

"Asymptotic Fields at Cohesive Crack Tips"

Georgy Karzov, Boris Margolin

St.-Petersburg, Russia

"Fracture mechanisms and structural integrity assessment of equipments for NPP with different types of reactors"

Otmar Kolednik

Leoben, Austria

"New ideas for the development of damage resistant materials and structures"

Meinhard Kuna

Freiberg, Germany

"Fracture mechanics of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials and structures"

Toshihiko Kuwabara

Tokyo, Japan

"Forming Limits of Metal Sheets and Tubes: Analysis Method and Experimental Validation"

Antonio Martin Meizoso

San Sebastián, Spain

"Failure Criteria for Wood Under Multiaxial Loading"

Yukitaka Murakami

Fukuoka, Japan

"Hydrogen embrittlement: the microscopic mechanism in fatigue and fracture"

Volodymyr Panasyuk, Hryhorii Nykyforchyn

Lviv, Ukraine

"Properties degradation of pipeline steels caused by long-term service in hydrogen enriched environments"

Yury Petrov

St.-Petersburg, Russia

"Incubation time based fracture mechanics"

Reinhard Pippan

Leoben, Austria

"Fatigue and fracture of micro samples"

Jaroslav Pokluda

Brno, Czech Republic

"Theoretical strength of solids: a bridge from interatomic bonds to local plasticity and fracture"

Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar

Austin, USA

"Multiscale Experiments on Ductile Failure in Polycrystalline Materials"

Jesus Toribio

Salamanca, Spain

"Materials and Environmental Circumstance: And All is Always Now"

Dov Sherman

Haifa, Israel

"The Role of Phonon Emission in Dynamic Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals"

Andrey Shanyavskiy

Moscow, Russia

"Scale Levels for Durability Bimodal Distribution of Titanium Alloys: Fatigue Mechanisms and In-service Experience"

Siegfried Schmauder

Stuttgart, Germany

"Simulation of crack propagation on all length scales"

Yu Shouwen

Beijing, China

"The damage mechanics approach and the damage evolution of bone considering the mechanical-electric-magnetic coupling effects"

Nicola Pugno

Torino, Italy

"Fracture and adhesion of super-nanomaterials: graphene (the strongest) and spider-silk (the toughest)"

Andre Pineau

Evry cedex, France

"Revisiting cleavage and intergranular fracture in BCC metals"

Victor Panin

Tomsk, Russia

"Fracture Mesomechanics of a solid as a hierarchically built nonlinear system"

Xanthippi Markenscoff, Cristian Dascalu

USA, France

"Damage amplification due to singularly interacting nearby microcracks and cavities"

Nikolay Makhutov

Moscow, Russia

"Big disasters analysis in problems of technical systems safety"