PROBAMAT-21st Century: Probabilities and Materials

I — Contributions.- 1. Material structure, description and application.- Simultaneous failures in fiber bundles.- Synergetical models of fatigue-surface appearance in metals: the scale levels of self-organization, the rotation effects, and density of fracture energy.- Lacunarity of the contact domain between elastic bodies with rough boundaries — Numerical analysis and scale effects.- How far can we control the heterogeneity of wood and wood based materials through design?.- Crack roughness.- Common characteristics of damage accumulation and fracture of solids.- 2. Scaling, fracture and applications.- Mechanical response of disordered media/patterns, measurements and modelling.- Failure scaling as multiscale instability in defect ensemble.- A statistical-probabilistic approach to microstructure-structure relations in failure and damage of ceramic composites.- Kinetic models of brittle crack growth: crack pattern statistics and longevity of solids.- From classic to fractal mechanics of disordered media: self-consistency versus self-similarity.- 3. Structures and structural components.- Probabilistic models of structures.- A new model for inter-fibre-failure of high-strenght uni-directionally reinforced plastics and its reliability implications.- Probabilistic approach to dimensioning of structures exposed to stochastic operating loads.- Modeling of material uncertainties using the nonlinear stochastic finite element method.- Structural approach in contimuun modeling of damageable particulate composites.- Finite element and reliability: combined methods by response surface.- Probabilistic design of performance in glued laminated timber.- 4. Numerics, simulation techniques and design processes.- Scale effect for concrete specimens: a numerical model.- Numericalmodelling of concrete elements of increasing size.- Multiscale material characterization and applications.- Probailistic aspects in shape memory alloy modelling —Constitutive law for energy dissipators.- Homogenization of random granular media.- Towards quantitatively correct micromechanics models.- 5. Porous and granular media.- Multiscale permeability and dispersion in randomly heterogeneous geologic media.- Probabilistic modeling of granular media anisotropy.- A unique model for the sand and clay behavior.- A comparison between “measured” and “calculated” values in geotechnics — An application to settlements.- Informational methods in optimization of tools.- 6. Fracture, fatigue.- Stochastic modeling of fatigue crack growth in metals.- Two plasticity models considering microinechanics of observed phenomena.- Statistical kinetics of fracture of heterogeneous solids.- Deterministic and stochastic aspects of strain localization in the fatigue of metals.- II — Synthetic papers and round table discussions.- Scales!.- Introductory remarks to session C: structures and structural components.- About the use of probabilities in material response prediction and material design.- Natural materials and composites.- Crack growth and damage accumulation — A review of five papers for PROBAMAT — 21st CENTURY.- Round Tables.