Provisional Oral Programme

	SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2008
15.00–19.00	Conference Registration at Eurotel Victoria (Hotel Lobby)

19.30–20.30	Welcome Reception at Eurotel Victoria (Hotel Lobby/Bar)

20.30	Dinner at Eurotel Victoria

	MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2008
09.00	Opening address: Professor J.G. Williams, Imperial College London, UK
	POLYMER I
09.15	Determination of the fracture resistance (JIc) of ductile polymers at low and high loading rates: applicability of the load separation criterion. F. Baldi, S. Agnelli, T. Riccò; Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy*
09.40	Experiments and modelling of creep crack growth on polyamide 6 at 20°C C. Regrain¹, L. Laiarinandrasana¹, S. Toillon², ¹Mines Paris Paritech, France; ²CETIM Nantes, France*
10.05	Creep fracture propagation in polybutene pipes L. Andena¹, M. Rink¹, R. Frassine¹, R. Corrieri²; ¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Basell Polyolefine Italia, Italy*
10.30	REFRESHMENT BREAK
	COMPOSITES I
11.00	Development of a standardized procedure for the characterization of interlaminar crack growth in advanced composites under fatigue mode I loading conditions G. Pinter¹,², A.J. Brunner³; ¹University of Leoben, Austria; ²Polymer Competence Center Leoben, Austria; ³EMPA, Switzerland*
11.25	Characterization of Mode I delamination in a CFRP composite using long embedded FBG sensors and inverse identification methods S. Stutz, J. Botsis, J. Cugnoni; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland*
11.50	Characterization of the fracture and fatigue behaviour of elastomer composites Z. Major¹, A. Kajtna², R.W. Lang¹; ¹University of Leoben, Austria; ²Polymer Competence Center Leoben, Austria*
12.15	Influence of the type of resin in the delamination behavior under mode II fatigue loading in composites reinforced with carbon fiber A. Argüelles¹, J. Viña¹, A.F. Canteli¹, J. Bonhomme²; ¹University of Oviedo, Spain; ²ITMA Foundation, Spain*
12.40–14.00	LUNCH
	HIGH RATE
14.00	The interfacial fracture properties of sandwich structures at quasi-static and impact rates of strain W. Cantwell, Y. Shen; University of Liverpool, United Kingdom*
14.25	The role of fracture mechanics in the ballistic penetration of thick composite panels I. Horsfall, P.D. Bourke; Cranfield University, United Kingdom*
14.50	Dynamic translaminar fracture toughnesses of conventional and advanced composite laminates J.R. Tarpani, M.C.A. Gatti; The University of São Paulo, Brazil*
15.15	REFRESHMENT BREAK
	ADHESIVES
15.40	Fracture mechanics investigation of delamination of epoxy/metal interface due to static and thermo-mechanical loading for automotive applications L. Durix¹, M. Dreßler¹, D. Coutellier², B. Michel³, B. Wunderle³; ¹Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany; ²LAMIH UMR CNRS, France; ³Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM), Germany*
16.05	Damage evolution in bonded joints under impact fatigue J.P. Casas-Rodriguez, I.A. Ashcroft, V.V. Silberschmidt; Loughborough University, United Kingdom*
16.30	Micro-mechanical modelling of the fracture of adhesively-bonded joints under steady-state peeling conditions Ph. Martiny¹, F. Lani¹, A.J. Kinloch², T. Pardoen³; ¹Cenaero, Belgium, ²Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ³Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium*
17.05	Mechanical behaviour of bonded structures close to the glass transition temperature of the adhesive in a humid environment R. Léger², J.C. Grandidier¹, A. Roy², D. Mellier²; ENSMA, France; ²CRITT Matériaux, France*

	TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2008
	POLYMER II
08.30	Mixed mode fracture toughness as a separation parameter when cutting polymers D.J. Wyeth, A.G. Atkins; The University of Reading, United Kingdom*
08.55	A fracture mechanics model of the cutting of polymers Y. Patel, B.R.K. Blackman, J.G. Williams; ¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom*
09.20	Scratching the residual life time of glassy polymers H.A. Visser, L. Warnet, G. van der Linde, R. Akkerman; University of Twente, Netherlands*
09.45	Ductile-brittle transition in scratch deformation of viscoelastoplastic polymers H. Lakrout, G. F. Meyers; The Dow Chemical Company, United States*
10.10	REFRESHMENT BREAK
	COMPOSITES II
10.40	An experimental evaluation of glass-polymer interfacial toughness F. Caimmi, A. Pavan; Politecnico di Milano, Italy*
11.05	Evaluation of fiber/matrix interface failure in composite materials by the single fiber outwater- Murphy test M.U. Farooq¹, B.A. Acha², L.A. Carlsson¹; ¹Florida Department of Mechanical Engineering; ²Department of Ocean Engineering; Florida Atlantic University, United States*
11.30	Fracture toughness of MDF and other materials with fiber bridging and crack plane interferences J.A. Nairn, N. Matsumoto; Oregon State University, United States*
11.55	Interface characterization and failure modeling for semiconductor packages A. Xiao¹, H. Pape², B. Wunderle³, K.M.B. Jansen¹, L.J. Ernst¹; ¹Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, ²Infineon Technologies AG, Germany, ³Fraunhofer IZM, Germany*
12.20–14.00	LUNCH
	POLYMERS III
14.00	A fracture mechanics concept for the accelerated characterization of creep crack growth in PE-HD pipe grades A. Frank¹, G. Pinter², R.W. Lang¹; ¹Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Austria; ²University of Leoben, Austria*
14.25	Measurement of environment stress cracking by modified wedge opening load T. Kuriyama*, I. Narisawa; Yamagata University, Japan
14.50	Accounting for porosity, time and temperature dependence in fracture mechanics concepts on PVDF polymeric material L. Laiarinandrasana¹, M. Lafarge², G. Hochstetter³; ¹Mines Paris, France; ²ARKEMA - CRRA, France; ³ARKEMA – CERDATO, France*
15.15	On the essential work of fracture of LLDPE films L. Castellani¹, L. Franchini¹, P. Mariani¹, A. Pegoretti², A. Penati², M. Vezzari²; ¹Polimeri Europa S.p.A, Italy; ²University of Trento, Italy*
15.50	POSTER PRESENTATIONS & DRINKS RECEPTION

	WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2008
	COMPOSITES III
08.45	Fracture simulation of CFRP laminates in mixed mode bending for hybrid Titanium-PEEK /AS4 composites P. Naghipour, M. Bartsch, J. Hausmann, H. Voggenreiter; German Aerospace Research Center, Germany*
09.10	Computational and experimental simulation of delamination growth in an l-shaped laminated composite component G. Wimmer¹,², W. Kitzmueller³, G. Pinter⁴, E. Ladstaetter⁵, H.E. Pettermann¹; ¹Vienna University of Technology, Austria, ²Austrian Aeronautics Research / Network for Materials and Engineering, Austria, ³Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Austria, ⁴Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria, ⁵Fischer Advanced Composite Components AG, Austria*
09.35	Characterization of the edge crack torsion (ECT) test for mode III interlaminar fracture toughness R. Marat-Mendes¹, M. de Freitas²; ¹Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal; ²Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal*
10.00	Initiation and propagation of transverse cracking in composite laminates J.Q. Ye¹, D. Zhang²; ¹University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ²University of Manchester, United Kingdom*
10.25	REFRESHMENT BREAK
	COMPOSITES IV – 3D
10.50	Fatigue delamination behaviour of unidirectional carbon fibre/epoxy laminates reinforced by z-fiber® pinning D.D.R. Cartie¹, J.M. Laffaille¹, C. Bonnet¹, I.K. Partridge¹, A.J. Brunner², G. Pinter³; ¹Cranfield University, United Kingdom; ²EMPA, Switzerland; ³University of Leoben, Austria*
11.15	Inelastic interface damage modelling with friction effects : application to Z-pinning reinforcement in carbon fibre epoxy matrix laminates L. Gornet¹, H. Ijaz¹, D.D.R. Cartié²; ¹Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), France; ²Cranfield University, United Kingdom*
11.40	The effects of stitching on fracture toughness of satin woven carbon/epoxy laminates under mode I, Mode II and Mixed-Mode I/II loadings W. Trabelsi, L. Michel; ¹Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space, France*
12.05	Effect of Zanchor Process on interlaminar crack growth behaviour of composite laminates under mode I loading. T. Kusaka¹, M. Hojo², K. Watanabe³, T. Fukuoka⁴, M. Ishibashi⁵; ¹Ritsumeikan University, Japan; ²Kyoto University, Japan; ³Osaka University, Japan; ⁴Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan; ⁵Shikibo, Japan*
12.30–14.00	LUNCH
	NANO
14.00	Microdeformation and fracture mechanisms in polystyrene/laponite clay nanocomposites prepared from modified latexes R. Ruggerone¹, C.J.G. Plummer¹, E. Bourgeat-Lami², N. Negrete Herrera ², J.A.E Månson¹; ¹Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; ²Laboratoire de Chimie et Procédés de Polymérisation (LCPP), France*
14.25	Effects of nanoparticle inclusion on tensile modulus, strength and mode I fracture toughness of polyimide nanocomposites K. Naito¹, M. Hosaka¹ ², Y. Kagawa¹ ³; ¹National Institute for Materials Science, Japan; ²Tokyo University of Science, Japan; ³The University of Tokyo, Japan*
14.50	Self-assembled star block copolymer-clay nanocomposites: Deformation and fracture behaviour M. Ganß¹, B. Satapathy¹, R. Weidisch¹, A. Garcia-Marcos², K. Knoll²; ¹University Jena, Germany; ²BASF-AG, Germany*
15.15	Suppression on fatigue crack growth in carbon nanotube epoxy composites N Koratkar, C Picu, W Zhang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States*
15.40	Toughening mechanisms in nanoparticle-modified epoxy polymers B.R.K. Blackman¹, A.J. Kinloch¹, J. Sohn Lee¹, R.D. Mohammed¹, A.C. Taylor¹, S. Spenger²; ¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ²Nanoresins AG, Germany*
16.05	Closing Address: Professor J.G. Williams, Imperial College London, UK
19.00	CONFERENCE DINNER

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