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  • 10th Annual US-France Symposium
    Dynamic Damage and Fragmentation
    17-19 May 2017, Ft Walton Beach, Fl.


    The final program will be available soon.


    French Speakers


    Zoheir Aboura (Sorbonne Universites Roberval Laboratory, Compiegne, France)
    On the advantage of an out-of-plane reinforcement of laminate composites


    Felix Darve (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)
    Coulombian plastic friction, a world of bifurcations


    Laurent Daudeville (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)
    Discrete element modelling of penetration and perforation into concrete targets by ogive-nosed steel projectiles


    Eric Deletombe (ONERA, Lille, France)
    About dynamic nonlinear and rupture behavior of composite materials under a large range of strain rate and temperature conditions for safety applications


    Thibaut de Resseguier  (ENSMA Institut Pprime, Poitiers, France)
    Dynamic fragmentation under laser driven shock loadings


    Skander El Mai (CEA, Gramat, France)
    Warhead fragmentation: analysis of the localization process


    Pascal Forquin (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)
    Investigation of the tensile and shear damage of concrete at high strain-rates


    Sergey Gavrilyuk (Aix Marseille Univ., Marseille, France)
    Dynamic fracture and spallation via hyperbolic models of hyperelastic solids


    Ioan R. Ionescu(LSPM, Paris Nord University, France)
    Discontinuous Galerkin method in modeling damage dynamics


    Bertrand Langrand (ONERA, Lille, France)
    On some advantage of advanced inverse methods to identify viscoplastic and damage material models parameters


    Patrice Longere (ISAE SUPAERO/Institut Clement Ader, Toulouse, France)
    From dynamic shear localization until crack propagation in viscoplastic metals and alloys : a challenge for the modeling


    Jean Jacques Marigo (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
    An overview of the modelling of fracture by gradient damage models


    Sebastien Mercier (Universite de Lorraine, Metz, France)
    Dynamic flow surface of porous materials containing spheroidal void shape.


    Didier Picart (CEA DAM, le Ripault, France)
    Dynamic damage and fracture of a HMX-based PBX


    Jean Luc Zinszner (CEA DAM, Gramat, France)
    Characterization of the dynamic behavior of ceramics using High-Pulsed Power Technologies


    US Speakers


    Lalit Chhabildas (AFRL/RW, Eglin, USA)
    The role of microstructure in influencing the dynamic material response


    Alberto Cuitino (Rutgers Univ., NJ, USA)
    To be determined


    Manny Gonzales (AFRL/RX, Wright-Patterson, USA)
    Challenges in understanding meso-scale heterogeneity under shock compression


    Bryan F. Henson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA)
    Modeling thermal ignition and pressurization in solid secondary explosives


    Timothy Holmquist (Southwest Research Institute, Minneapolis, USA)
    Modeling Brittle Materials Subjected to High-Velocity Impact


    Geremy Kleiser (AFRL/RW, Eglin, Fl)
    To be determined


    Nirmal Kumar (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, USA)
    Meso-scale Modeling of Heterogeneous Energetic Materials


    Ricardo Lebensohn (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA)
    Accounting for micro-inertial effects in full-field polycrystal plasticity simulations under dynamic conditions


    David L. Littlefield (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birmingham, USA)
    An improved contact algorithm for Eulerian hydrocodes in three dimensions


    Bradley Martin (AFRL/RW, Eglin, USA)
    To be determined


    Alan Needleman (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas AM University, USA)
    Effect of Plastic Compressibility on Dynamic Crack Growth


    Benoit Revil-Baudard (UF/REEF, Shalimar, USA)
    To be determined


    Daniel Rittel (Technion, Israel)
    The physics and mechanics of dynamic shear localization


    Jose A. Rodriguez-Martinez (Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
    Collective behavior and spacing of necks in ductile plates subjected to dynamic biaxial loading


    Laura Smilowitz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA)
    Experimental Observations of the Thermal Response of Secondary High Explosives PBX


    Jonathan Spowart (AFRL/RX, Wright Patterson, USA)
    Serial sectioning in the micron-plus range


    Scott Stewart (Univ. Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA)
    To be determined