Track 1

• Nanomaterials and Nanostructures

• Fracture and fatigue of nanostructured materials

• Failure mechanisms

• Fatigue and fracture of MEMS and NEMS

• Failure analysis of nanodevices

• Fatigue and fracture at atomistic and molecular scales

• Thin films

• Electronic materials

• Failure of nanocomposites

Track 2

• Engineering Materials and Structures

• Physical aspects of fracture

• Micromechanisms in fracture and fatigue

• Brittle fracture

• Ductile fracture

• Nonlinear fracture mechanics

• Fatigue and fracture

• High temperature fracture

• Fretting fatigue

• Polymers and composites

• Ceramics

• Fracture mechanics analysis

• Surface treatment technologies

• Probabilistic approaches to fracture mechanics

• Computational fracture mechanics

• Experimental; fracture mechanics

• Creep fracture

• Environment assisted fracture

• Dynamic, high strain rate, or impact fracture

• Damage mechanics

• Residual stress effects

• Concrete and rock

• Sandwich structures

• Novel testing and evaluation techniques

• NDE

• Mixed-mode fracture

• Structural integrity

• Scaling and size effects

• Mesofracture mechanics

• Smart materials and structures

• Fracture of biological materials

• Geophysical and tectonic problems

• Restoration engineering