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International As*ociation of Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures CONCRETE STRUCTURES (IA-FRAMCOS) There are many conferences discussing damage, cracking and fracture of concrete, but mostly outside the context of fracture mechanics. There are many others dealing with fracture mechanics, but rarely with its application to concrete. To fill this gap was he motivation for founding FraMCoS. Concrete is an archetypical quasibrittle material. It consists of brittle constituents and is characterized by a non-negligible material characteristic length which endows the material with a behavior that is transitional between the stress-strain relations for distributed damage at small scales and linear elastic fracture mechanics at large scales. This transitional behavior poses difficult challenges for theoretical, experimental and computational research. Originally, IA-FraMCoS only activity was the triennial conference series with focus on concrete. Presently, it seeks to expand its activities to cover not only fundamental developments in concrete but also promotion of fracture-based approaches in engineering practice. Such an approach is long overdue in infrastructure life-cycle as*essment (durability), environmental protection (long term waste storage, carbon dioxide sequestration), energy (nuclear vessels, fracking) and engineered design of new materials. This will be accomplished not only through the perennial conferences, but also through seminar series, short courses (primarily to industry), and endorsements of high quality Professor Bićanić Pas*ed Away Prof. Bićanić pas*ed away on Saturday October 8. Nenad Bicanic was a fine scientist and a dear friend with whom many of us interacted and enjoyed his warm friendliness. The FraMCoS community expresses its Access to Two major projects data bases Courtesy of Prof. Mazars, you are given access to two major data bases related to unique large scale testing programs in France. Framocs friends are encourage to further enrich this database