This conference will be one of the big International meetings exclusively dedicated to Fracture and Damage Mechanics. The conference will be extremely useful in the sense that it will be attended by hundreds of Chemists, Physicists, Technologists and Engineers, making it a truly interdisciplinary conference. The goal of the conference emphasizes interdisciplinary research on Fracture and Damage Mechanics of materials being used in automotive, civil, chemical, aerospace, computer, medicine and marine engineering. This symposium will bring together a panel of highly-accomplished experts in the field of Fracture and Damage Mechanics