2010 ASME INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS & EXPOSITION
12-18 November 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress2010
SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 1 MARCH 2010

This workshop aims
to provide in-depth description and recent advances in piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and nanoscale
electromechanics. It will introduce basic principles of PFM operation, relevant
instrumental aspects, and image interpretation. The theory of cantilever
dynamics, PFM contact mechanics, resolution theory, and their implications for
qualitative and quantitative data interpretation will be presented. The recent
technical advances, including vector PFM, high-frequency PFM, band-excitation
and DRFT imaging, switching spectroscopy PFM, and imaging and polarization
switching in liquids and vacuum, will also be illustrated. For ferroelectric
and multiferroic materials, applications of PFM for domain imaging, nucleation

The Nanobrücken Nanomechanical Testing Workshop, Feb 24-26, 2010 at INM Saarbrücken in Germany, aims to bring together researchers from the international nanomechanical community in a forum that highlights both techniques and applications. The workshop features an outstanding lineup of keynote and invited speakers. We cordially invite you to attend and encourage you to participate with a contributed oral or poster presentation.

Dear Colleague,

The Sixth M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics will be held in June 2011 at M.I.T.
The theme of the Conference is "Solids & Structures", and the topic is interpreted in a very broad way.

The Abstracts for full papers to be published in Computers & Structures are due January 31, 2010.
please see http://www.sixthmitconference.org

The conference proceedings will be published by Elsevier as a special issue of the journal "Computers and Structures",
and we are planning for this issue to be ready at the Conference in June 2011.

The newly founded National Hypersonic Science Center -- Materials and Structures is to organize a minisymposium in this year's WCCM (2010) on VirtualTesting for Hybrid Hierarchical Materials for High TemperatureApplications. Please see the attachment for paper solicitation. We will greatly appreciate your consideration of submitting a paper to our symposium (minisymposium No. MS5041) 

I'm currently planning for an "International Conference on Advances in Vehicle Structures & Systems - ICAVSS" either in Chennai or Bengaluru (India) during mid-Feb/Mar 2011. This is an initiative lead by MechAero Foundation based in New Perungalathur, Chennai, India. Discussions are in place to organise at MIT Campus (Chennai) or IISc (Bengaluru) or by a consortium of private engineering colleges near Tambaram. In this regard, I would like to hear about your participation - to present your work (Plenary address, Keynote address, Thematic Session Chair/Co-Chair) and/or potentially sponsor the event. 

A first call for papers is in draft at the moment.

Dear Collegue

We are organising in July 7-9, 2010 an Euromech workshop on Multiscale
effects in Fatigue, at the Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris in France.
Outcomes and topics are detailed on the following web site:

http://www.lms.polytechnique.fr/Euromech

We would be honoured if you could contribute to this workshop to present
some of your recent research results.  The workshop is thought as a small
meeting in order to promote active discussion on the hot topics in this
field.

with kindest regards
Andrei Constantinescu & Michele Ciavarella

--
Andrei Constantinescu

CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST AN

IUTAM SYMPOSIUM

or

 INSTRUCTIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

in 2012 or 2013

The Structural Mechanics division of K.U.Leuven is organizing the
Eighth European Conference on Structural Dynamics
EURODYN 2011 in Leuven, Belgium, from 4 to 6 July 2011,
in cooperation with the Technical Institute of the Royal Flemish
Society of Engineers (TI KVIV) and the European Association for
Structural Dynamics (EASD).
The EURODYN conferences have developed into one of the key conferences
in structural dynamics. Apart from reflecting the state of the art of
research in structural dynamics, EURODYN 2011 will also address
industrial developments and applications.
More details are available from the website http://www.eurodyn2011.org

The Eighteenth Annual International Conference on
COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE - 18)
ICCE-18 Anchorage, Alaska,USA, July 4-10, 2010
http://myweb.polyu.edu.hk/~mmktlau/ICCE/ICCE_Main.htm

Message from ICCE Chairman

Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2010

The 5th International Civil Engineering Conference (CECAR5) hosted by Engineers Australia, together with the Australasian Structural Engineering Conference (ASEC 2010) will bring together a broad cross-section of the civil and structural engineering professions who want to learn, network and advance their technical skills.

A combination of these Conferences, workshops and technical site visits will be a high quality three day event attracting a prospective audience of 600-800 delegates in Sydney, Australia from 8-12 August 2010.

This workshop is being organized under the auspices of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM).

Topics of interest include: Microactuators, Microsensors, Micro-opto-mechanical devices, Mechanical Tools for cell and tissue studies, Micromanipulation, Micro-assembly, Microscale flight and swimming, Surgical tools, Micro-robotics, Micro-scale power generation, and Miniature manufacturing machines.

Please consult the Call for Papers (attached) for further details.

The 2009 ASME Congress starts this weekend.  You can find the schedule of the meetings of all the committees (326KB pdf).  This note lists a few special events. 

The 20th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM 2010) will be held on 8-10 September 2010 at Loughborough University, UK. Selected papers will be published in a Special Issue of Computational Materials Science by Elsevier.

For details see iwcmm.lboro.ac.uk .

Topics:

ICEM 14 - International Conference on Experimental Mechanics

Poitiers, France, 4 - 9 July 2010

11th International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization
April 12 - 14, 2010 in Dresden, Germany

The workshop will provide a forum for presenting current research and
for discussions on issues related to stress-induced phenomena in
on-chip metal interconnects and solder joints. Stresses arising in
metal structures and surrounding dielectric materials due to novel
process steps, thermal mismatch of thin film materials,
electromigration or microstructure changes can lead to degradation and
failure of microelectronic products.

Please see attachment for Call-for-Papers.

Gordon Conference 2010Thin Film & Small Scale Mechanical Behavior

July 25-30, 2010, Colby College, Waterville, ME

Chair: Oliver Kraft (oliver.kraft@kit.edu), Vice Chair: John Balk

Are you curious to learn more about FEA or CFD simulations on patient-specific data? Then Materialise and ANSYS would like to invite you to their upcoming free seminar on “Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications”, where you will learn how numerical solutions can help the Biomedical and Healthcare industry in the development of innovative solutions.

Practical Info
- Date: Friday, November 20th, 2009.
- Cost: FREE!
- Location: Leuven (Belgium), Materialise HQ office

Dear Colleagues,

We like to draw your attention to the mini-symposium

MS6043 - Computational Mechanics of Electro-Active Materials

organized by Prof. Ellen Kuhl, Prof. Andreas Menzel and myself in the
WCCM IX. The abstract outlining the objectives of this integrative
mini-symposium is enclosed to this post as plain text and also as a
pdf-attachment.

The 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (www.wccm2010.com)
is going to be held in Sydney from July 19th to July 23rd, 2010. The
guidelines concerning the submission of abstracts can be found on the
dedicated web page of the conference .

Website：http://piezo.hust.edu.cn/spawda09 Papers can be in Chinese or English   The deadline for abstract submission to the Joint Conference of the 2009 Symposium on Piezoelectricity, Acoustic Waves and Device Applications and China Symposium on Frequency Control Technology (Spawda 09) has been extended to October 30, 2009. The conference information can be found at http://piezo.hust.edu.cn/spawda09.