Fracture in Natural and Engineered Systems

IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Fracture in Natural and Engineered Systems -- Session Organizers: Robert HABER (UIUC), Anthony INGRAFFEA (Cornell Univ.) -- Keynote Lecture: "Assessment of stiffened shell structures using advanced fracture and damage mechanics methods" by Karl-Heinz SCHWALBE , Wolfgang BROCKS, Alfred CORNEC, Wernfried Schonfeld, Ingo SCHEIDER, Uwe ZERBST (GKSS Research Centre) -- "Residual strength characterization of integrally-stiffened structures utilizing novel manufacturing technologies" by B. R. SESHADRI, S. W. SMITH , W. M. JOHNSTON, JR. (NASA Langley Research Center) -- "Towards modeling of fragmentation and dynamic delamination interactions in CFRP composites" by Jean-Mathieu GUIMARD , Oliver ALLIX (ENS Cachan), Nicolas PECHNIK (AIRBUS France), Pascal THEVENET (EADS France) -- "A damage-based cohesive model in an adaptive spacetime discontinuous Galerkin method" by Reza ABEDI, Robert B. HABER (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -- "A unified potential-based cohesive model of mixed-mode fracture" by Glaucio H. PAULINO , Kyoungsoo PARK, Jeffrey ROESLER (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -- "Surface and embedded cracks in offshore pipelines subjected to plastic strains" by Espen BERG , Bjorn SKALLERUD, Kjell HOLTHE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) -- "Automated finite element based predictions of simultaneous crack growth and delamination growth in multi-layers in advanced metallic hybrid stiffened panels using the Alcoa ASPAN-FP tool" by Henry SKLYUT , Michael KULAK, Marcus HEINIMANN, Mark JAMES (Alcoa Technical Center), Olexander V. GONDLIAKH, Roman PASHINSKIJ (KPI, Kiev, Ukraine) -- "Crack trajectory prediction in thin shells using finite element analysis" by Jake D. HOCHHALTER , Ashley D. SPEAR, Anthony R. INGRAFFEA (Cornell University) -- "Analysis of localized failure in metal beams and plates" by Jaka DUJC, Bostjan BRANK (University of Ljubljana), Adnan IBRAHIMBEGOVIC (ENS Cachan

Organization, decoration

While organizational decoration has been of interest to those who study organizational artefacts, we suggest four ways in which decoration is worthy of fuller attention in organizational studies. First, decoration, ornament and embellishment are not only what we see, but also what we do as managers, consultants, writers and designers of both physical and project spaces. Second, and drawing on the art/craft debate, we note that decoration occupies contested and even liminal aesthetic position and that &lsquo;decorative art&rsquo; lies betwixt and between fine art and craft. Neither fully accepted nor fully marginalized, decoration is &lsquo;only applied&rsquo; and embodies shifting tensions between form and function. Third, we review the particular negotiations of these tensions at the Bauhaus, a controversial and highly influential aesthetic organization in early 20th century Germany. Fourth, we suggest that decoration, like disorganization, provides a source of complication for organizational studies that are neither pure nor parsimonious.<br /