In FraMCoS-8 conference, in addition to the individual submission of papers within the overall themes of the conference, experts are encouraged to organize sessions in advance on their specific topics. Each session organizer is expected to recruit about 6 - 8 papers for a session and serves as chairperson. Prospective session organizers are recommended to submit the session outline incuding the title of the session, and the titles and authors of the papers, through the conference web site.

To submit your proposal you have to be previously registered in the conference data base (access here). Thereafter please access your personal record and submit the proposal (.pdf file) through the "Add a proposal for an Organized Session" area.

A preliminary list of the Organized Sessions planned follows:

Control of Cracking in RC structures: coupling phenomena and 
crack indicators

Jacky Mazars
jacky.mazars@inpg.fr


Durability characterization and modeling of multiple cracked strain 
hardening cementitious composites (SHCC)
Michael Lepech
mlepech@stanford.edu 


Dynamic response of concrete in tension-experimental evidence 
and modeling 
Jaap Weerheijm and Josko Ozbolt
j.weerheijm@tudelft.nl; ozbolt@iwb.uni-stuttgart.de


Fracture behaviour of fibre-reinforced cement-based materials 
at sever conditions – high or low temperatures, impact, and cyclic loading
Viktor Mechtcherine, Giovanni Plizzari, and Stephen Foster
mechtcherine@tu-dresden.de

Fracture mechanics prediction of durability of concrete
Hans Reinhardt
reinhardt@iwb.uni-stuttgart.de 


Multi-scale investigation of concrete fracture by numerical and 
physical experimentation
Peter Grassl, Gianluca Cusatis and John Bolander
peter.grassl@glasgow.ac.uk ; gianluca.cusatis@gmail.com ; jebolander@ucdavis.edu


NDT/AE applications on concrete and concrete structures
Masayasu Ohtsu, Christian Grosse and Eric N. Landis
ohtsu@gpo.kumamoto-u.ac.jp ; Grosse@cbm.bv.tum.de ; Landis@maine.edu


Nonlocal computational methods for cementitious materials
Walter Gerstle
gerstle@unm.edu


Recent advances in numerical modeling of cohesive fracture in 
concrete-like materials
Zhenjun Yang
zhenjun.Yang@manchester.ac.uk


Strength, deformation and failure behaviour of structures made of, 
or strengthened with, fibre-reinforced cement-based composites and 
corresponding structural design approaches
Giovanni Plizzari, Stephen Foster, and Viktor Mechtcherine
plizzari@ing.unibs.it


Strengthening of RC beam-column joints
Appa Rao Gangolu
garao@iitm.ac.in


Testing methods for characterisation of fracture behaviour of fibre-reinforced 
cement-based composites
Stephen Foster, Viktor Mechtcherine and Giovanni Plizzari
s.foster@unsw.edu.au