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Composite materials offer excellent damage tolerance and the attractive prospect of tailoring material architecture for structural applications. However, their revolutionary potential has not been fully realized because of inadequate understanding of the complex damage evolution in these materials. Recent rapid development in composite failure theories, numerical methods, and high-resolution experimental characterization methods, has made it possible to use high-fidelity simulations for virtual testing and designing of composite structures. However, it is increasingly appreciated that the goal of establishing such a robust, credible high-fidelity simulation capability cannot be achieved through individual or isolated developments in the respective areas of theoretical, numerical, and experimental composite mechanics. Rather, a concerted effort to integrate the state-of-art advances in all areas into a general formulation is critically needed. This workshop brought together a group of leading active researchers in the composite failure analysis community to 1) present the most recent state-of-art development in theoretical, numerical, and experimental findings in composites, 2) to identify current road blocks in critical fronts of theoretical development, numerical formulation and implementation, and experimental characterization, and 3) to discuss and formulate a feasible roadmap to achieve the goal of utilizing high-fidelity simulations for virtual testing for future composite material optimization and structural design.