Invited Speaker

Abstract: Nano-sized materials (e.g., single crystalline, multilayered nanomaterials, and so on) have been widely used in fields of mechanical engineering; however, due to the existence of material interfaces and the extremely scaling down of the material dimension, the fracture behaviors become very complicated, and the fracture criteria become questionable. This talk will introduce some new findings of fracture behavior in nano-sized composites. The limitation of continuum fracture criteria at the nanoscale will also be discussed and some alternative ones will be introduced to break through the dimensional limitation.

Biography: Kai Huang is a full professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, mainly engaged in the research of damage, fracture and fatigue of composite materials and structures, fracture mechanics of nonhomogeneous materials. He has published more than 50 academic papers in leading international journals, such as Compos Sci Technol, Int J Fatigue, Eng Fract Mech, Int J Solids Struct, Thin-Walled Struct, and Nano Lett.