Invited Speakers
1. Atomistic and microstructural aspects of plastic deformation
- S. Agnew, USA
Multiple mechanisms and their interactions in Mg-alloys: slip, cross-slip, climb, twinning, and detwinning - A. Couret, France
Low and high temperature deformation mechanisms TiAl alloys
2. Fracture and interfacial strength
- D. Sherman, Israel
Local and global instabilities in dynamic crack propagation in brittle single crystals - A. Hartmaier, Germany
Deformation and failure of interface-dominated materials
3. Microstructure evolution in fatigue and creep of advanced materials
- T. Kruml, Czech Republic
Fatigue properties of the new generation of TiAl alloys - T. Pollock, USA
Deformation mechanisms in two phase materials with ordered precipitates
4. Phase transformations and severe plastic deformation
- X. Sauvage, France
Severe plastic deformations and phase transformations - M.L. Nó, Spain
Stress induced phase transformations studied by in-situ transmission electron microscopy
5. Nano- and microscale phenomena in plasticity and fracture
- L. Hollang, Germany
Deformation mechanisms in sub-microcrystalline fcc metals at low temperatures - E. George, USA
Recent developments in understanding small-scale mechanical behavior: micro-pillar compression and nanoindentation
6. Strength issues in biological systems and biomaterials
- M. Wagner, Germany
Microstructural and mechanical challenges in biomedical NiTi - P. Fratzl, Germany
Hierarchical structure and strength of biological materials
7. Mechanical behaviour of glasses and non-crystalline solids
- U. Ramamurty, India
Plasticity, fracture and fatigue in amorphous alloys - F. Spaepen, USA
An atomic-scale view of the deformation of amorphous solids
8. Multiscale modelling and experimental validation
- D. Rodney, France
Simulating plasticity: from dislocations in crystals to shear bands in glasses - L. Zhang, Australia
On the mechanics and physics of multi-scale deformation of silicon
9. Insight through new experimental methods
- S. Van Petegem, Switzerland
Size effects in plasticity investigated by in-situ Laue diffraction - Y. Ikuhara, Japan
Grain boundary atomistic structure, chemistry and strength in ceramics