Abstract: This mini-symposium aims to bring together research papers in analytical and numerical analysis which provide improved understanding of the mechanisms of micro and macro fracture in all materials, and their engineering implications. Contributions from engineers and scientists working in various aspects of fracture, computational fracture mechanics as well innovative and in-depth engineering applications of fracture theory are also encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Boundary and Finite Element Methods applied to crack initiation and crack path;
• Meshfree methods, Extended and Generalized Finite Element Method, Dual Boundary Element Method;
• Embedded techniques;
• Multi-scale fracture simulation;
• Cohesive Fracture Models;
• Mesh adaptiveness and mesh reduction techniques applied to fracture problems;
• Applications to engineering structures on the macro-micro and nanoscale