Scheduled presentations:

• Adaptive Virtual Element Method for damage modelling in heterogeneous materials
  *M. Lo Cascio (University of Palermo), A. Milazzo (University of Palermo), I. Benedetti (University of Palermo)
• Extension of the Regularized Extended Finite Element Method to high density arbitrary interacting crack networks
  *E. Iarve (University of Texas at Arlington), E. Zhou (University of Dayton Research Institute), D. Mollenhauer (Air Force Research Laboratory)
• On the Importance of Fibre Direction Mesh Alignment for Artificial Lightning Strike Simulations
  *B. Nagavel (Queen’s University Belfast), S. Millen (Queen’s University Belfast), A. Murphy (Queen’s University Belfast)
• Accurate Stress Fields in Composite Ply-Drops Using Variable Kinematics Wedge Element
  *S. van den Broek (University of Bristol), P. Greaves (Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult), P. Weaver (University of Bristol and Limerick), A. Pirrera (University of Bristol)
• Cohesive crack propagation analysis by the hybrid equilibrium element formulation and element side rotation
  *F. Parrinello (University of Palermo), G. Borino (University of Palermo)