Villa Gualino, Torino  – Italy
April 6-7, 2009

List of Abstracts here [pdf format]

Monday April 6
2.15 PM Stefano Zapperi CNR Welcome
Fracture
2.30 PM Michael Zaiser UEDIN Properties of interface cracks in disordered media: Crack nucleation and crack pinning.
3.00 PM Jari Rosti HUT Criticality of fracture precursors
3.30 PM Armandine Miksic HUT Deformation and strain rate during successive fatigue cycles
4.00 PM Sergio Vinciguerra INGV Triggering failure in an intact rock sample: analysis of the role of temperature, seismic waves and fluid
4.30 PM Coffee Break
Plasticity
5.00 PM Jari Koivisto HUT Strain Fluctuations During Primary Creep
5.30 PM Valentina Beato CNR Plasticity at the micro-scale
Earthquakes
6.00 PM Patrizia Tosi INGV Variation of the aftershock rate decay in space and time
Tuesday April 7
Friction
9.30 AM Fergal Dalton CNR Investigating granular fluidisation through vibration
10.00 AM Rosario Capozza CNR Suppression of friction by mechanical vibrations
10.30 AM Jean-Robert Grasso UJF From stick-slip to stable sliding through interface ageing: towards geophysical glide?
11.00 AM Coffee break
Avalanches & Rockslides
11.30 AM Joachim Heierli UEDIN Triggering of snow slab avalanches: From fracture mechanics to hazard mitigation?
12.00 AM Agnès Helmstetter UJF Seismic monitoring of a huge Rockslide, Séchilienne, French ALps
12.30 PM Lunch
2.00 PM Discussion
5.00 PM Final Greetings