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Presentations

  • L. Banks-Sills and Y. Benveniste, “Mode III Interface Crack Propagation in Viscoelastic Material”, Israeli Society for the Application of Mathematics, Spring Meeting, 1980, Safed, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, “Do All Cracks Propagate in Mode I?” Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1983, Tel Aviv Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills and M. Arcan, “Proposal for an ASTM Standard Specimen for Mode II Fracture Testing”, ASTM Fall Meeting, 1983, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

  • L. Banks-Sills and Y. Bortman, “Can the Quarter-Point Element be Used in Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics?”, Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1984, Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, “Finite Element Method in Fracture Mechanics With Application to a Mode II Fracture Specimen”, The 18th Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 1984, Haifa, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills and M. Arcan, “A Compact Mode II Fracture Specimen”, ASTM Seventeenth National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, 1984, Albany, N.Y., U.S.A.

  • L. Banks-Sills and Y. Bortman, “The Quarter-Point Quadrilaterial Element”, XVI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1984, Lyngby, Denmark.

  • L. Banks-Sills and D. Sherman, “Use of Quarter-Point Elements in Calculating Stress Intensity Factors”, 28th Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics, 1986, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills and O. Einav, “On Singular Nine-Noded Finite Elements”, Tenth U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1986, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

  • L. Banks-Sills, “A Three-Dimensional Weight Function Method”, ASTM Nineteenth National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, 1986, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

  • L. Banks-Sills and D. Schur, “Crack Propagation of a Slant Edge Crack”, 29th Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics, 1987, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills and D. Schur, “Effect of Mode III on Out of Plane Crack Propagation”, ASTM Twentieth National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, 1987, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

  • L. Banks-Sills, “Use of Three-Dimensional Finite Elements in Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics”, Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Conference, 1988, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

  • D. Sherman and L. Banks-Sills, “Elastic Plastic Analysis of a Mode II Fracture Specimen”, Twenty-Second Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 1988, Beer Sheva, Israel.

  • I. Marmur and L. Banks-Sills, “The Effect of the Autofrettage Process on Fracture Toughness in Gun Barrel Steel”, Twenty-Second Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 1988, Beer Sheva, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills and D. Sherman, “J-Integral Testing of a Mode II Fracture Specimen”, European Symposium on Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics, 1989, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

  • L. Banks-Sills and D. Sherman, “JII Fracture Toughness Testing of AL 7075-T7351,” 31st Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics, 1990, Israel.

  • R. Schwartzman and L. Banks-Sills, "The Effect of a Local Cold Work Process at Notches on Fatigue Crack Propagation", Twenty-fifth Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 1991, Haifa, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Weight Functions for Interface Crack Problems", ESIS Ceramics Workshop, 1992, Lyon, France.

  • I. Lewenstein, L. Banks-Sills and R. Eliasi, "A New System (IL) for Supporting an Implant Retained Cantilever Prosthesis", International Symposium of Implant Dentisty, 1994, San Diego, California.

  • L. Slepyan, M. Ryvkin and L. Banks-Sills, "Double Asymptotic Solution to the Thin Layer Delamination Eigen-Problem", Localized Damage 94, 1994, Udine, Italy.

  • Banks-Sills, D. Ashkenazi and R. Eliasi, "Determination of the Effect of Residual Curing Stresses on an Interface Crack by means of the Weight Function Method", IUTAM Symposium on Innovative Numerical Methods in Fracture Mechanics, 1996, Dublin, Ireland.

  • L. Banks-Sills, ``The Bimaterial Notch Problem'', IUTAM Symposium on Non-linear Singularities in Deformation and Flow, 1997, Haifa, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills and V. Leiderman, "A Macro-Mechanical Elasto-Plastic Model for Fiber-Reinforced Composites", Plasticity-97, 1997, Juneau, Alaska.

  • L. Banks-Sills and V. Leiderman, "Elastic and Elasto-Plastic Behavior of Composite Material: Micro and Macro Analyses", Symposium on Composite Structures, 1998, Haifa, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "A Conservative Integral for Bimaterial Strips", First Israel-France Bi-National Workshop on Failure of Materials, 1998, Kyriat Anavim, Israel.

  • D. Ashkenazi, L. Banks-Sills, N. Travitzky and R. Eliasi, "Measurements of Interface Fracture Properties of Composite Materials", Mechanical Engineering Conference, 1998, Haifa, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, N. Travitzky and D. Ashkenazi, "Measurement of Interface Fracture Properties of Two Ceramic Clays", ASME Mechanics and Materials Conference, 1999, Blacksburg, Virginia.

  • L. Banks-Sills, N. Travitzky and D. Ashkenazi, "Interface Fracture Toughness of Two Ceramic Clays", ESIS TC6-Ceramics, Meeting, 1999, Leuven, Belgium.

  • I. Lewinstein, L. Banks-Sills, R. Eliasi and Y. Zippori, "Effect of Cortical Bone Removal on Stress in a Cantilevered Fixed Prostheses: Finite Element Analysis", Fifteenth Annual Meeting of Osseointegration, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Conservative Integrals for Calculating Stress Intensity Factors in Bimaterial Bodies", IUTAM Symposium on Analytical and Computational Fracture Mechanics of Non-Homogeneous Materials, 2001, Cardiff, Wales.

  • L. Banks-Sills and V. Boniface, "Fracture Mechanics of an Interface Crack Between a Special Pair of Transversely Isotropic Materials", 33rd National Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, American Society for Testing and Materials, 2001, Moran, Wyoming.

  • L. Banks-Sills, V. Boniface and R. Eliasi, "Effect of Residual Stresses on Interface Cracks of Laminated Composites", Tenth International Congress on Fracture, 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii.

  • L. Banks-Sills and J. Schwartz, "Crack Paths in Adhesive Bonds", 14th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2002, Blacksburg, Virginia.

  • Banks-Sills, J. Schwartz and V. Fourman, "Measurement of Fracture Properties of Bonded Joints", International Conference of Structural Integrity and Fracture, SIF 2002, Perth, Australia.

  • L. Banks-Sills, V. Boniface, R. Eliasi and V. Fourman, "Delamination Toughness of the 0/90 Interface in Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composites", International Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Materials-9, 2003, Geneva, Switzerland.

  • L. Banks-Sills and C. Ishbir, "Calculation of Stress Intensity Factors for Bimaterial Notches Thermal Stresses", Second MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Finite Elements and Fracture Mechanics", Israel Society for Computational Mechanics, 2003, Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • N. Eliaz, L. Banks-Sills, D. Ashkenazi and R. Eliasi, "Coupled Diffusion/Stress Finite Element Analysis Used to Model Environmentally-Assisted Cracking in Amorphous Alloys, Materials Research Society, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts.

  • L. Banks-Sills, V. Boniface, R. Eliasi and V. Fourman, "Toughness of the 0/90 Interface in Fiber Reinforced Material", Israel Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2003, Tel Aviv.

  • D. Ashkenazi, N. Eliaz, L. Banks-Sills and R. Eliasi, "Coupled Diffusion/Stress Finite Element Analyses used to Model Environmentally-Assisted Cracking in Amorphous Alloys", The 11th Israel Material Engineering Conference - IMEC-11, 2003, Haifa.

  • N. Eliaz, D. Ashkenazi, L. Banks-Sills and R. Eliasi, "Life Predictions for Hydrogen-Induced Cracking of Glassy Ribbons by means of Coupled Diffusion/Stress Finite Element Anaysis", The 6th Biannual Conference on the Corrosion Forum NACE Israel, 2004, Karmiel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, V. Boniface, R. Eliasi and V. Fourman, "Experiments for Determining the Delamination Toughness of a 0/90 Interface", The International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, 2004, Bari, Italy.

  • L. Banks-Sills, Y. Freed, R. Eliasi and V. Fourman, "Interface Toughness for Laminate Composites - the +45/-45 Interface", European Conference on Fracture 16, 2006, Alexandroupolis, Greece.

  • I. Kressel, L. Banks-Sills and S. Gali, "Effect of a Partially Bonded Patch on Crack Propagation in Metallic Structures", Composites Symposium, Technion, Israel, 2006.

  • L. Banks-Sills, Y. Motola and L. Shemesh, "A Conservative Integral for Piezoelectric Ceramics with Impermeable Crack Face Conditions", Nineteenth Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Lund, Sweden, 2006.

  • Y. Motola and L. Banks-Sills, "M-integral for Piezoelectric Ceramics using the Exact Boundary Conditions on Crack Surfaces", Thirteenth International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 2007.

  • P. Ståhle and L. Banks-Sills, "Growth of Cortical Bone Controlled by Strain Driven Diffusion", First Broberg Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 2007.

  • P. Ståhle and L. Banks-Sills, "Belastningsstimulerad Tillväxt av Kortikalt Benn", Swedish Mechanics Days, Luleå, Sweden, 2007.

  • P. Stahle, L. Banks-Sills, I. Svensson, ``Stress Driven Diffusion'', Indian Institute of Metals, Member's Day, Mumbai, India, 2007.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Interfacial Fracture Toughness Between Layers of Fiber Reinforced Material in Different Directions", keynote, European Conference on Fracture 17, Brno, The Czech Republic, 2008.

  • L. Banks-Sills, Y. Motola and V. Fourman, Fracture Testing of PZT-5H Piezoceramics", British Society of Strain Measurement 6, Teddington, United Kingdom, 2008.

  • L. Rogel and L. Banks-Sills, "A Through Interface Crack Between a Transversely Isotropic Pair of Materials -30/+60", Composites Symposium, Technion, Israel, 2008.

  • L. Banks-Sills, Y. Motola and V. Fourman, "A Fracture Criterion for Piezoelectric Ceramics", Second Broberg Symposium, Eslov, Sweden, 2009.

  • P. Ståhle and L. Banks-Sills, "Bone Growth Trigged by Mechanical Load", Bio-films Fifth Annual Workshop, Malmö, Sweden, 2009.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Stress Intensity Factor Calculations for Delaminations", Second International Workshops on Advances in Computational Mechanics, IWACOM-II, Yokohama, Japan, 2010.

  • L. Banks-Sills, C. Ishbir, J. Aboudi, R. Eliasi, V. Fourman and L. Rogel, "Delamination Tests of DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites", International Conference on Experimental Methods, ICEM14, 2010, Poitiers, France.

  • L. Banks-Sills and L. Rogel, "Analysis of a Delamination Between Two Transversely Isotropic Materials: the +30/-60, -30/+60 Interfaces", European Conference on Fracture, ECF18, Dresden, Germany, 2010.

  • H. Hallberg, M. Ristinmaa and L. Banks-Sills, "Modeling of Crack Behavior in Austenitic Steel Influenced by Martensitic Phase Transformation", 9th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics, Nagasaki, Japan, 2010.

  • L. Heller, L. Banks-Sills, Victor Fourman and Y. Motola, "A Fracture Criterion for Cracks Parallel to the Poling Direction of Piezoelectric PZT-5H Ceramics", Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010.

  • L. Banks-Sills, Chaim Ishbir, Jacob Aboudi, Rami Eliasi, Victor Fourman, "Crack Resistance Curves Obtained from DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites", Third Broberg Symposium, Lund, Sweden, 2011.

  • O. Ben David, L. Banks-Sills, J. Aboudi, O. Raz, A. Shlayer, A. Yaakobovich, R. Eliasi and V. Fourman, "Evaluation of the Effective Mechanical Properties of PMMA Reinforced with CNTs - Experiments and Modeling", Composites Symposium, Technion, Israel, 2011.

  • L. Banks-Sills, C. Ishbir, V. Fourman, R. Eliasi, "Delamination Toughness Tests of DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites", Society of Experimental Mechanics, Costa Mesa, California, 2012.

  • O. Ben David, L. Banks-Sills, J. Aboudi, O. Raz, A. Shlayer, A. Ya'akobovich, R. Eliasi and V. Fourman (invited), "Effective Mechanical Properties of PMMA Reinforced with CNTS - Experiments and Modeling", International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 15, Porto, Portugal, 2012.

  • L. Banks-Sills, M. Gohfeld and R. Eliasi, "Delamination between a Unidirectional and Woven Composite", International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Beijing, China, 2012.

  • L. Banks-Sills, C. Ishbir, V. Fourman and R. Eliasi, "Delamination Toughness Tests of DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites", European Conference of Fracture 19, Kazan, Russia, 2012.

  • L. Banks-Sills, C. Ishbir, V. Fourman and R. Eliasi, “Delamination Toughness and Crack Propagation Tests of DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites”, (keynote) Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment (ESIA12), Manchester, UK, 2013.

  • L. Banks-Sills, G. Lindberg, P. Ståhle and I. Svensson, “Stress Driven Diffusion in Bone Tissue”, (invited) Viggo Tvergaard Symposium: New Horizons in Materials Mechanics, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013.

  • L. Banks-Sills, “Interface Fracture of Homogeneous Materials and Laminates – Theory and Experiment”, (invited) The Distinguished Lecture Series, Peking University, Beijing China, 2013.

  • I. Svensson, G. Lindberg, P. Ståhle and L. Bank-Sills, “Transport-Based Theory of Bone Remodeling Involving Stress Driven Diffusion”, National Conferens on Mechanics (Svenska mekanikdagarna), Lund, Sweden, 2013.

  • T. Simhi, L. Banks-Sills, J. Aboudi, A. Shlayer, V. Fourman and R. Eliasi, ”Comparison of the Mechanical Properties of PMMA Reinforced with CNTs Fabricated by Different Processes”, 16th Composite Materials Symposium, November, 2013, Haifa, Israel.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Probabilistic Analysis for Interface Fracture and Delamination Failure of Composites", (keynote) European Conference of Fracture (ECF20), Trondheim, Norway, 2014.

  • L. Banks-Sills, C. Ishbir, V. Fourman and R. Eliasi, "Fatigue Delamination Propagation in a Multi-Directional Woven Composite", International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM16), Cambridge, UK, 2014.

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Probabilistic Analysis of Delamination Failure of a Cross-Ply Laminate", Seventh International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2014).

  • L. Banks-Sills, "Statistical Analysis for Interface Fracture and Delamination Failure of Composites", The Josef Singer Memorial Lecture (invited), Technion, Haifa, Israel (2015).

  • L. Banks-Sills, T. Simhi and V. Fourman, "Fracture Toughness Measurements of PMMA Reinforced with CNTs", ESIS Technical Committee 4, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2015).

  • L. Banks-Sills. "Delamination Failure of Composites -  Statistical Analysis", Italian Group of Fracture (invited), Favignana, Italy (2015).

  • L. Banks-Sills. "Fracture of Piezoelectric Ceramics", CERMODEL2015 (invited), Trento, Italy (2015).

  • I. Simon and L. Banks-Sills. "Image Acquisition and Analyses: Fracture Toughness/Fatigue Tests on DCB Specimens", ESIS Technical Committee 4, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2015).

  • I. Simon and L. Banks-Sills. "Delamination Fatigue Propagation Tests of DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites", ESIS Technical Committee 4, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2015).

  • L. Banks-Sills. "Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue: Application to Aircraft Structures", Under Extreme Conditions (invited), Technion, Israel (2015).

  • L. Banks-Sills. "Statistical Analysis of Delamination Failure of Composites", (plenary), Advanced Problems in Mechanics, St. Petersburg, Russia (2016).

  • L. Banks-Sills, I. Simon and V. Fourman. "Fatigue Delamination Propagation in DCB MD Woven Composite Specimens", International Conference of Experimental Mechanics (ICEM17), Rhodes, Greece (2016).

  • L. Banks-Sills, ''Statistical Analysis of Delamination Failure of Composites'' (invited), 20th Anniversary Structural Integrity Workshop, Miskolc, Hungary (2016).

  • I. Simon, L. Banks-Sills and V. Fourman. "Mode I Fatigue Delamination Propagation in Unidirectionally Reinforced Materials - TC4 Round Robin", ESIS Technical Committee 4, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2016).

  • L. Banks-Sills. "Statistical Analysis for Interface Fracture and Delamination Failure of Composites", (Swedlow Memorial Lecture), ASTM 41st National Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Toronto, Canada (2017).

  • L. Banks-Sills and I. Simon. "R-Ratio Effects on Fatigue Delamination Propagation - Mode I", Barentblatt Symposium (invited), International Congress on Fracture 14 (ICF14), Rhodes, Greece (2017).

  • I. Simon and L. Banks-Sills. "The Effect of the Hartman-Schijve Representation of Fatigue Delamination Growth Test Data for CFRP on da/dN", International Congress on Fracture 14 (ICF14), Rhodes, Greece (2017).

  • L. Banks-Sills and I. Simon. "Fatigue Delamination Propagation in a Woven Multi-Directional Composite in Mode I", (opening plenary) International Conference on Structural Integrity and Durability 2017 (ICSID 2017), Dubrovnik, Croatia (2017).

  • L. Banks-Sills and I. Simon. "Woven Multi-Directional Composite: Mode I Fatigue Delamination Propagation", (opening plenary) Greek Society for Experimental Mechanics of Materials, Athens, Greece (2018).

  • L. Banks-Sills and M. Mega. "Mixed Mode Failure Criterion for a Multi-Directional Laminate", International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 18, Brussels, Belgium (2018).

  • L. Banks-Sills, ``Perspectives on Delamination Failure'' (opening plenary), Virtual European Conference of Fracture 1 (VECF1), (2020).

  • S. Reddy M., E. Rubin and L. Banks-Sills, ''Towards Determining a Mixed Mode Failure Curve for an Interface Crack in Materials used for Deterministic Three-Dimensional Assembled Structures'',  Advanced Problems in Mechanics Conference 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia (2020).

  • L. Banks-Sills, ''Interface Fracture Mechanics - a la Rice: An Historical Perspective'', Virtual Annual DIVK Conference - Serbian Society for Structural Integrity and Life, Belgrade, Serbia (2020).

  • L. Banks-Sills, I. Simon and T. Chocron, ''Comparison of Mode I Fracture and Fatigue Delamination Propagation in Two Laminate Composites'', Symposium in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Professor James R. Rice: Mechanics of Deformation, Fracture, and Flow: From Nano to Terra. Virtual, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2021).

  • L. Banks-Sills, ''Failure Criteria for Interface Cracks'', ICTAM 25, Milano, Italy (2021).

  • L. Banks-Sills, I. Simon and T. Chocron, ''Fracture and Fatigue Delamination Propagation in DCB Specimens: Comparison of Two Material Systems'' (invited), The Royal Society, London, UK (2021).

  • L. Banks-Sills, I. Simon and T. Chocron, ''Comparison of Fatigue Delamination Propagation in DCB Specimens'' (invited plenary), Crack Paths 2021, Rome Italy (2021).

  • H. Ben Gur and L. Banks-Sills, ''Modeling the Contribution of Fiber Bridging in Unidirectional Composites'', Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE Europe 21 Conference), Baden, Switzerland (2021).

  • H. Ben Gur and L. Banks-Sills, ''Cohesive Zone Modeling for Unidirectional Composites with Fiber Bridging in Mode I'', 10th Israel Structural Integrity Group Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel (2021).

  • S. Reddy, E. Rubin and L. Banks-Sills, ''A Lower Bound Mixed Mode Failure Curve for an Interface Crack in Materials Used for Three-Dimensional Assembled Structures'', 10th Israel Structural Integrity Group Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel (2021).

  • M. Mega and L. Banks-Sills, ''Mixed Mode Fracture Toughness in a Multi-directional Laminate'', 10th Israel Structural Integrity Group Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel (2021).

  • I. Simon and L. Banks-Sills, ''Failure Prediction of a Bonded Composite Structure with External Ply Drops'', The First Virtual ESIS TC4 Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives (2021).

  • L. Banks-Sills and H. Ben Gur, ''Modeling the Contribution of Fiber Bridging in Unidirectional Composites''(invited plenary), European Conference on Fracture 23 (ECF23), Virtual, Madeira, Portugal (2022).

  • L. Banks-Sills, O. Shor and I. Simon, ''Micro-Computerized Tomography of DCB Specimens -- UD and Twill Laminates'', 11th Israel Structural Integrity Group Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel (2023).

  • A. Singh, S. Aizen and L. Banks-Sills, ''Fatigue Delamination Propagation of Mixed Mode End Loaded Split Specimens -- MD Woven Laminate'', 11th Israel Structural Integrity Group Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel (2023).

  • M. Mega and L. Banks-Sills, ''Delamination in a Multi-Directional Laminate - Mixed Mode Fracture Toughness and Resistance'', 9th International Conference on Fatigue of Composites, Vicenza, Italy (2023).

  • L. Banks-Sills and H. Ben Gur, ''Quantifying the Effect of Fiber Bridging on Mode I Quasi-Static and Fatigue Testing'', 15th International Conference on Fracture (ICF15), Atlanta, Georgia (2023).

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