Dear Colleagues,

Professor Yiu-Wing Mai will celebrate his 60th birthday in early 2006.  In commemoration of this event a special International Workshop entitled "Fracture of Materials: Moving Forwards" will be held in Sydney, January 23 ~ 25, 2006.

After consulting with Professor Mai, we have decided to issue a special invitation to all his  friends, and, colleagues and students, current and former, to get together to celebrate this special occasion.

As the Chairmen of this International Workshop, we would like to invite you to join us for the special event.  It is sure to be scientifically stimulating, reflecting the many areas in which Professor Mai has made significant contributions in the field of materials ranging from classical fracture mechanics modelling to nano-materials, and has colleagues from every continent of the world.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney for a memorable celebration.

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Theme

Fracture of materials as a discipline has been studied for many years. However, with the rapid development of materials science and technology, researchers are continually faced with new challenges in fracture mechanics of advanced materials.  In recent years significant progress has been made in many areas of fracture mechanics of materials from nano-, micro-, meso-, macro-scales to the structural scales. An International Workshop on "Fracture of Materials: Moving Forwards" will be held on 23-25 January 2006, in Sydney to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art achievements and future trends in fracture of materials.   

This workshop is organized to honor Professor Yiu-Wing Mai, an eminent scholar and educator, who has made many important contributions to the field of Fracture of Materials during his time at the University of Sydney, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It is our great pleasure to invite all his former/current colleagues, friends, research fellows and graduate students to join this exciting reunion at Sydney in 2006. 

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Major Topics of Workshop

• Fracture and fatigue mechanics

• Essential work of fracture

• Multi-scale fracture analyses and modeling

• All aspects of deformation, fracture and fatigue mechanics and mechanisms on:

• polymers and their blends

• ementitious materials and fibre cements

• glasses and ceramics

• smart materials, functionally graded and multi-layered materials

• adhesives, thin films and surface coatings

• particulate- and fibre-composites

• nano-structured materials

• porous media

• Friction and wear of materials

• Applications of fracture mechanics

• Frontiers of Smart Health Monitoring

• Advanced Materials Technology

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Committee

Co-Chairmen

X-Z Hu, University of Western Australia

M. Hoffman, University of New South Wales 

Local Organising Committee

H-Y Liu,  The University of Sydney

C. Yan,  The University of Sydney

Z-Z Yu,  The University of Sydney

Advisory Committee

Brian Lawn, NIST, Gaithersburg,

Victor Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mike Swain, Otago University, Dunedin

Gordon Williams, Imperial College, London

Brian Cotterell, IMRE,Singapore

Klaus Friedrich, IVW,Germany

Lin Ye, The University of Sydney, Sydney

Albert Yee, UC-Irvine

Liangchi Zhang, The University of Sydney, Sydney

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