Advancement of Computational Fracture Mechanics Applications

Yoshitaka Wada, Kindai University
Hiroshi Okada, Tokyo University of Science
Toshio Nagashima, Sophia University
Xueling Fan, Xi'an Jiaotong University

This minisymposium deals with the state-of-the-art computational fracture mechanics applications. Applications of computational methodologies, such as, FEM, X-FEM, G-FEM, S-FEM, BEM and other advanced numerical techniques will be discussed in the minisymposium. Fields of interests span a wide range of areas, such as aerospace, automobile, naval architecture, nuclear power, mechanical/civil engineering, and other structural applications. Outcomes of both the applied and fundamental researches are warmly welcome to the minisymposium.