Keynote speakers

• K. Ravi-Chandar, The University of Texas at Austin
  Experiments in fracture mechanics
   
• Stewart Silling, Sandia National Laboratories
  Nonlocality in peridynamics
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
   
• Lallit Anand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  A gradient-damaged theory for fracture of quasi-brittle materials
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9

Industrial speakers

• Danielle Zeng, Ford Motor Company
  Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) development of carbon fiber composites for lightweight vehicles

Participants

(Alphabetically listed; updated 12/30/2019)

• Amirfarzad Behnam, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
   
• Masoud Behzadinasab, Brown University
  Poster: Peridynamic modeling of large deformation and ductile fracture
   
• Debdeep Bhattacharya, George Washington University
  Poster: Two-dimensional reduction of 3D axisymmetric peridynamic models
   
• Florin Bobaru, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  The performance of peridynamic and phase-field models in dynamic brittle fracture
   
• Sahir Butt, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  Poster: Dynamic fracture modelling with peridynamics
   

• Xiang Chen, Louisiana Tech University
   
• Lana Chuck, University of Michigan
   
• Patrick Diehl, Louisiana State University
  A review of benchmark experiments for the validation of peridynamics models
  Part 1 | Part 2
   
• John Dolbow, Duke University
   

• Jay Fineberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  How moving cracks in brittle solids choose their path
   
• John Foster, The University of Texas at Austin
  Peridynamic modeling of large deformation and ductile fracture
   
• Ugo Galvanetto, The University of Padua, Italy
  Hybrid FEM and peridynamic simulation of hydraulic fracture propagation in saturated porous media
  Part 1 | Part 2
   
• Johann Guilleminot, Duke University
  Stochastic modeling for uncertainty quantification in fracture mechanics
   
• Francois Hild, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France
  On the identification and validation of fracture mechanics models for curved crack in mortar
   
• Kevin Hoffseth, Louisiana State University
   

• David Kamensky, University of California San Diego
  Isogeometric and meshfree analysis of hyperbolic phase field fracture
   

• John Lambros,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Full-field experimental measurements in extreme loading environments for property extraction and simulation validation
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9
   
• Olivier Lampron, Polytechnique Montréal
   
• Chad Landis, The University of Texas at Austin
  Some recent progress on phase-field modeling: fatigue, r-curves, and large structures
   
• Yu Leng, University of Texas at Austin
  Poster: Asymptotically compatible reproducing kernel collocation and meshfree integration for Peridynamic Navier equation
   

• Guang Lin, Purdue University
  Peri-Net: Analysis of crack patterns using deep neural networks
   
• Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
  Nonlocal brittle fracture: computational analysis and convergence to LEFM
  Part 1 | Part 2
   
• Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Revisiting nucleation in the phase-field approach to brittle fracture
   

• Erdogan Madenci, The University of Arizona
  Weak form of bond-associated peridynamics for finite elastic deformation and rupture in rubber-like materials
  Part 1 | Part 2
   
• Katrin Mang, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
  Poster: Simulating fractures in rubber – one step further with phase-field modeling
   

• Ata Mesgarnejad, Northeastern University
  Interplay of fracture and plasticity in swelling-driven fracture of phase-transforming battery materials
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
   
• Dirk Mohr, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Shear fracture of metals during in-plane torsion experiments
   
• Kasra Momeni, Louisiana Tech University
   
• Marco Morandotti, Politecnico di Torino
   
• Olufemi Olorode, Louisiana State University
   
• Marco Pasetto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Poster: Convergence in peridynamic fracture modelling
   
• Serge Prudhomme, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
   
• Pablo Seleson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Convergence studies in meshfree peridynamic wave and crack propagation
   
• Andrew Stershic, Sandia National Laboratories
   
• Ilyass Tabiai, École Polytechnique Montréal
  Poster: Full field in-situ digital image correlation measurements of Mode I and Mode II crack growth for polymeric materials
   
• Stephanie TerMaath, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
   
• Xiaochuan Tian, The University of Texas at Austin
  Poster: Fast algorithm for peridynamics and nonlocal models in heterogeneous media
   

• Hareesh V. Tippur, Auburn University
  Experimental identification of dynamic crack branching precursors in soda-lime silicate glass
   
• Timothy Truster, University of Tennessee
   
• Mary Vaughan, Iowa State University
  Poster: Fractional derivatives and viscoelasticity
   
• Haim Waisman, Columbia University
  Thermal-conductivity degradation across cracks in coupled thermo-mechanical systems modeled by the phase-field fracture method
   
• Kerstin Weinberg, University of Siegen, Germany
  Phase-field fracture models for linearized and finite strains
   
• Thomas Wick, University of Hannover, Germany
  Attempts to validate phase-field fracture for nearly incompressible solids with experimental data
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4