Eduard Karpov, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sheng-Wei Chi, University of Illinois at Chicago

Farhad Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago

Craig Foster, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mustafa Mahamid, University of Illinois at Chicago

Didem Ozevin, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mohsen A. Issa, University of Illinois at Chicago

The purpose of this special symposium is to honor Prof. Alexander Chudnovsky’s outstanding contributions to advancing theoretical and experimental approaches to fracture phenomena and assessment of lifetime risks of material systems. Over his lifetime career, Prof. Chudnovsky has been continuously researching fracture mechanics and physics, developing relevant mathematical models, and experimentally examining relations between the models and observed fracture mechanisms. His internationally recognized major scientific accomplishments includes Entropy Criterion of Local Failure, Statistical Theory of Fracture, Crack Layer Theory, and Statistical Micromechanics of Irreversible Deformation and Fracture of Engineering Thermoplastics. Several distinguished researchers in the field as well as his former students and former and current colleagues will be invited as speakers. The topics of the symposium include but not limited to:

• Theoretical and experimental approaches for fracture and fatigue of materials

• Mathematical models of fracture process and lifetime risk of materials

•Computational fracture mechanics • Statistical fracture theories and approaches

• Corrosion and other environmental effects on fracture

Keywords: infrastructure, solids and structure