A joint meeting of the annual conference of Fracture Mechanics (FM 2006) and the triennial conference of High Temperature Strength of Material and Structure (HTSMS) will take place at the International Conference Hotel of Nanjing, 17-20 November, 2006. The collaboration of the two groups is prompted by the advent of multiscaling in recent years where more and more attention is being focused on relating failure initiation from the small scale to the larger scale in order to increase the time interval for detecting possible sites of irregularity. Such a safety measure is particularly needed in the presence of aggressive environment such as elevated temperature. While the added influence of the environment can be tested under controlled laboratory conditions, the transfer of specimen data to the design of full size structural components is not always straightforward. Many of the conventional material constants and methodologies have limitation on the size scale within which they were determined and developed. This meeting will serve as the forum for exchanging ideas and discussing new findings.

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