Wednesday April 26, 1995
08:00 Registration opens
08:30 Welcome, C. Doering, Deputy Director, CNLS
08:35 Opening remarks, R. Blumenfeld (Los Alamos)
08:45 J.S. Langer (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) - Some Issues in the Theory of Dynamic Fracture
10:00 Refreshment break
10:15 M. Marder (Univ. of Texas, Austin) - Atomic Effects in Brittle Fracture
10:45 S.J. Zhou (Los Alamos) - The Study of Dynamic Fracture using Massively Parallel MD
11:15 J.H. Simmons (Univ. of Florida) - MD Simulations of Fracture in Brittle Materials
11:45 Lunch
13:00 W.G. Knauss (CalTech) - Basic Phenomena in the Dynamic Propagation of Cracks in Brittle Solids
14:15 J.J. Mecholsky (Univ. of Florida) - Fractal Fracture in Brittle Materials: What Needs to be Done?
14:45 Refreshment break
15:00 D.A. Lange (Univ. of Illinois) - Fractal Analysis of Fracture Surfaces and an Approach to Mechanical Modeling of Fracture
15:30 K. Ravi-Chandar (Univ. of Houston) - Periodic Morphology in Fast Fracture: An Examination of the Fracture Mechanism
16:00 Panel discussion
19:00 Dinner at Gabriel's Restaurant
Thursday April 27, 1995
09:00 B.B. Mandelbrot (Ecole Polytechnique / Yale Univ.) - Characterizing Fractal Structures
10:15 Refreshment break
10:30 J.A. Krumhansl (Cornell Univ.) - Just Plain Phonons or Fractons?
11:00 S.I. Wright (Los Alamos) - Orientation Correlations and their Relationship to Morphology
11:30 Lunch
13:00 J. Martin (Sandia) - How do the Fractal Aspects of Aggregation and Gelation Impact Technologically Important Problems?
14:15 S.P. Chen (Los Alamos) - Spring-Network Modeling of Brittle/Brittle and Brittle/Ductile Composites
14:45 Refreshment break
15:00 A. Redondo (Los Alamos) - Comparison of Force Fields for the Estimation of Crystal Geometry and Energy in All-Silica Zeolites
15:30 R.L. Orbach (Univ. of California, Riverside) - Vibrational Dynamics of Amorphous and Glassy Materials
16:00 Panel discussion
Friday April 28, 1995
09:00 J.E. Sethna (Cornell Univ.) - Tweed in Martensites: Spin Glasses and the Two-Way Shape-Memory Effect
10:30 Refreshment break
10:45 A. Saxena (Los Alamos) - Hierarchical Structures in Martensitic Materials
11:15 D.C. Dunand (MIT) - Composite Shape-Memory Alloys
11:45 Lunch
13:00 M. Wuttig (Univ. of Maryland) - Textures and Properties of Bulk and Thin Film In-Tl Model and NiTi Thin Film Shape-Memory Alloys
14:15 R.D. James (Univ. of Minnesota) - Emergence of Microstructure from Energy Minimization
14:45 Refreshment break
15:00 Panel discussion / Summary session