Si segnala il seguente Minisimposio  MS 45: Damage and Fracture Mechanics in Adhesive Joints and Interfaces organizzato presso l'International Conference on Fracture  https://dems-icf-16-2027.eventsairsite.com/ a Melbourne, Australia, 28 giugno-4 luglio 2027.

Damage and Fracture Mechanics in Adhesive Joints and Interfaces

Organizers: 

Michele Serpilli, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy
Frédéric Lebon, ‌Aix-Marseille University, France
Raffaella Rizzoni, ‌University of Ferrara, Italy
Maria Letizia Raffa, ‌Institut supérieur de mécanique de Paris, France
Francesco Ascione, ‌University of Salerno, Italy

Adhesive joints and interfaces play a central role in the mechanical performance, structural integrity, and durability of heterogeneous materials and engineering structures. Understanding damage initiation, progressive degradation, and fracture at bonded interfaces is essential for predicting failure and designing reliable connections. These phenomena involve mechanisms spanning multiple length scales and are strongly influenced by material heterogeneity, interphase properties, loading conditions, and environmental effects.

This mini-symposium aims to bring together researchers working on theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to damage and fracture in adhesive joints, thin interphases, and imperfect interfaces. Particular attention will be devoted to the relationships between microstructural mechanisms and macroscopic failure, and to the interplay between distributed damage, crack initiation, and interfacial debonding.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Continuum damage mechanics, cohesive zone models, and phase-field approaches;
• Multiscale modeling, homogenization, and asymptotic methods for thin adhesive layers and interfaces;
• Mixed-mode fracture, delamination, and interactions between damage, contact, and friction;
• Fatigue, time-dependent failure, and environmental degradation;
• Multiphysics coupling in interfacial damage and fracture, including thermal, chemical, electrical, and fluid–solid interactions;
• Biomechanics of adhesion and failure in biological tissues, bio-inspired interfaces, and tissue–implant connections;
• Experimental characterization, full-field measurements, inverse identification, and model validation;
• Applications to bonded connections, composites, layered materials, and structural repair.

The mini-symposium seeks to connect advances in interface mechanics with practical strategies for improving the damage tolerance, service life, and sustainability of bonded structures.

Important dates: Abstract submission will close on November 30, 2026 and will be accepted on the conference website.