The official language of the conference is English. All papers
should be written and presented in English. Accepted papers will
be collected in the FM2009 proceedings which will be published
by the East China University of Science and Technology Press before
the symposium (All abstracts were indexed in ISTP in the previous
symposia).
Abstracts (about 300-500 words) and full papers (not over 6 pages
for session presentations and 10 pages for keynote lectures) should
be submitted to Prof. Guozheng Kang through E-mail:
fm2009swjtu@yahoo.com.cn.
Those who wish to have their full papers reviewed and published
in the journal of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (SCI/EI
indexed), please contact Prof. George C. Sih through E-mail:
gcs@ecust.edu.cn.