TC4 Programme
Organised by ESIS TC04 “POLYMERS, POLYMER COMPOSITES AND ADHESIVES ”
Monday, 13 July 2020
A Fundamentals
09.00-09.45: Fracture in polymers: Basic concept and testing methods
Francesco Baldi / Alicia Salazar (LINK), (Presentation)
10.00-10.45: Quasi-static fracture testing of polymer composites
Neal Murphy/ Laurent Warnet /Andy Brunner (LINK), (Presentation)
11.00-11.45: Fracture of adhesive joints
Bamber Blackman / Anastasios Vassilopoulos (LINK) (Presentation)
12.00-12.30: Open Discussion of Fundamentals (30 mins) all Session-A speakers join group discussion
B Applications and Developments
14.00-14.20: Fatigue in polymers
Gerald Pinter (LINK), (Presentation), (Presentation)
14.30-14.50: Fatigue fracture testing of polymer composites
Andy Brunner / Wandong Wang (LINK), (Presentation)
15.00-15.20: 2D crack delamination in composites
Anastasios Vassilopoulos (LINK) (Presentation)
15.30-15.50: Rubbers, far beyond simple fracture mechanics: why, how & what?
Silvia Agnelli, Claudia Marano / Bernd Schrittesser (LINK) (Presentation)
16.00-16.30: Open Discussion of Applications and Developments (30 mins) all Session-B speakers join group discussion
C Techniques (Modelling and Experimental)
16.30-16.50: Notching for fracture testing of polymers
Rui de Oliveira (LINK) (Presentation)
17.00-17.20: Interlaminar fracture of composite laminates using Digital Image Correlation
Matthias Merzkirch (LINK) (Presentation)
17.30-17.50: Fracture of adhesive joints using J-integral
Stephan Marzi (LINK), (Presentation)
18.00-18.20: Modelling of fracture
Jordi Renart (LINK) (Presentation)
18.30-19.00: Open Discussion of Techniques (30 mins) all Session-C speakers join group discussion
19:00-19:30: Multiple choice test