The objective of this mini-symposium is to provide a place to share and discuss the role of HPC (High-Performance-Computing) in the simulation of damage and fracture. Emerging developments in parallel codes, capable of running on cutting-edge HPC systems, are enabling the execution of large number of computationally expensive, high-fidelity simulations. These simulations, along with access to HPC resources, are essential for Certification by Analysis (CbA) in the aerospace industry. The contributions presented in the mini-symposium will address developments and applications employing HPC to perform multi-scale simulations, to generate data to feed machine-learning models dealing with structural integrity, and to run expensive finite element models involving fracture and damage, such as high-fidelity micro-scale models or complex impact simulations.

Contribution addressing but not limited to the following topics are welcomed:

• HPC in the simulation of complex models with damage and fracture;
• Generation of synthetic data for surrogate models involving structural integrity;
• Training machine-learning models with data describing fracture mechanisms;
• Parallel computing in multi-scale modelling of damage;
• Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategies for damage and fracture problems;
• Quantum-computing in fracture simulation.