Board and General Assembly minutes from FraMCoS-7, Jeju, South Korea.
Minutes for the General Assembly of IA-FraMCoS (2010) Date: May 27, 2010 Venue: Jeju Island, South Korea The President, Byung-Hwan Oh, called the assembly to order and welcome the members. He started with a brief report on FraMCoS-7. At the conference, there were a total of 295 participants from over 30 countries, with the highest number from Korea (77), followed by Japan (64), France (24), China (20), Italy (12), U.S.A. (14), Germany (14), Denmark (14), the Netherlands (7) and others. Among the participants, there were about 60 students. During the 4-day conference, 280 papers were presented. Also, 12 “Organized Sessions” for specific topics have been organized. The President-Elect, Prof. Jan van Mier was then asked to give an introduction to FraMCoS-8 in Ciudad Real, Spain. After paying tributes to the funding members of IA- FraMCoS and giving a brief introduction of himself and his own work, Prof. van Mier shared his ideas about the technical content of the next conference, which would be co-organized by himself, Prof. Gonzalo Ruiz and Prof. Carmen Andrade. He has identified two major themes, including Fracture Mechanics and Durability as well as Fracture Mechanics and Design of New Concrete. Within these themes, it is possible to bring together people with different technical backgrounds to work on important problems with potential for high impact. In addition, he would be soliciting ideas for numerical simulation problems that can be validated through experiments. Various groups would be asked to come up with solutions to certain problems based on the numerical tools they developed. The results would be presented at FraMCoS-8. Then, experiments would be designed to validate the predictions. Comparison between numerical and experimental results would be presented in FraMCoS-9. To facilitate this exercise over the next 6 years, the first-ever FraMCoS Technical Committee would be set up. Prof.