Dear Esteemed Researcher,

The US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics is seeking proposals from US institutions interested in hosting the 2014 US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. If you are interested, please contact K. Ravi-Chandar: kravi@mail.utexas.edu for more information. 

Summer School on "Modeling and Computation in Biomechanics"

A one-week Summer School on "Modeling and Computation in Biomechanics" will take place in Graz, Austria, in September 15-19, 2008. The aim of the Summer School is to present a state of-the-art introduction to biomechanical modeling and computation at different length scales. The emphasis s on the nonlinear behavior embracing models of molecular dynamics, single filaments, etwork structures, the cytoskeleton and the nucleus. Multiscale models and ontinuum models for soft tissues including arteries, aortic valves, cartilage and the cornea will also be presented.

The oral presentation program for the 1st International Conference on Abrasive Processes (ICAP-1) is now available at the conference website (www.icap.elsevier.com). Evolving from earlier meetings [the International Conference on Liquid and Solid Impact (ELSI-IX) and the International Conference on Erosive and Abrasive Wear (ICEAW-II)], ICAP-1 will be held in the historic city of Cambridge, England, 21-25 September 2008. You are invited to join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting.

Hi, Everyone,

    I would like to seek a conference paper titled "EPC method for PDF solution of nonlinear oscillators excited by Poisson white noise" in the proceedings of the 18th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division Conference, June, 2007, Virginia, USA. (CD-ROM). Acutally, I am the second author of the paper and haven't participated in the conference because of no USA visa. So, I have not a copy of the proceedings.

   If you have a copy of the CD-Rom, would you please help me to send a PDF file of the said paper to me?  I only want to know the page number of the said paper.

   Many thanks. 

 H. T. Zhu

Email: ya57401@umac.mo

The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics will be held from June 8 to 10, 2009, at Columbia University, New York City. The conference web site is located at: http://www.civil.columbia.edu/biot/

We are now calling for abstracts. Please send the one-page abstracts by e-mail to biot@civil.columbia.edu (deadline: May 31, 2008).

Examples of Technical Sessions:
-Numerical Simulation of Crystal Growth (Koichi Kakimoto)
-Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling of Porous Media (X. Frank Xu)
-Strain Localization in Saturated and Partially Saturated Porous Media

A symposium on Experimental Multi-Scale Mechanics is being organized for the 2008 SES conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from October 12th through October 15th. The conference website is located at http://ses2008.mechse.uiuc.edu/

To submit abstracts to this symposium please use the abstract submission form and select the symposium title. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 30, 2008.

The aim of the Experimental Multi-Scale Mechanics symposium is as follows:

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 2008 Society of Engineering Science Annual Technical Meeting, to be held October 12th-15th, 2008 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The conference will feature more than 30 technical symposia in Applied Mathematics, Bioengineering, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Imaging, Multiscale and Nanomechanics of Solids, Mechanics of Materials, etc., as well as special symposia in honor of the 2008 SES Medalists, listed at the conference website: http://ses2008.mechse.uiuc.edu .

20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20)

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2-5 December 2008

The 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20) will be held at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba, 2-5 December 2008. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

A symposium on "Multiscale Modeling of Defects in Solids" is being organized at the 2008 SES conference in Champaign, Illinois (Oct 12-Oct 15). The conference website is: http://ses2008.mechse.uiuc.edu/index.php . To submit abstracts to this symposium please use the abstract submission form and select the symposium title. The abstract submission deadline is June 2, 2008. Below is the description and scope of the symposium (which can also be found at http://ses2008.mechse.uiuc.edu/content/call_for_abstracts/symposium.php?... ):

The full program for the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis is available at www.icefa.elsevier.com. Join your peers and take advantage of the 15% "early bird" discount by registering for this popular and well-received single stream meeting before 30 April. The conference takes place July 13-16 in the beautiful coastal town of Sitges, just a few miles from Barcelona's international airport. 

In 2008 the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) at Virginia Tech is celebrating its 100th year as a department. To recognize this great milestone, ESM is hosting a mechanics conference during May 29-30, 2008. In recognition of the fact that the study of composite materials has contributed so much to the world-wide reputation of the department for almost one-half of a century, Professors Michael Hyer and Carl Herakovich are organizing sessions on composite materials and structures. Several of these sessions will be dedicated to the memory of the ESM Professor Liviu Librescu.

Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems (EuroSimE) 

EuroSimE 2008 Will be held in Konzerthaus, downtown Freiburg, on April 20, 2008 (courses), April 21-22-23 (conference, exhibition).
http://www.eurosime.org/

 program also available:

http://www.eurosime.org/prog.htm

Authors are invited to submit, via the conference website, a 200-250 word abstract by 1 June 2008. The 17th International Conference on Wear of Materials (www.wom-conference.elsevier.com) will take place in Las Vegas, April 19-22, 2009. The conference will focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials at the macro-, micro- and nano-scale.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of my co-organizers, Jianqi Li, Dapeng Yu, Xiaolei Xu and Lianmao Peng, we cordially invite you to attend the International Workshop on In Situ Electron Microscopy in Advanced Materials Research, held at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academic of Science on May 31 to June 2, 2008, in Beijing, China.

The full oral program for the 7th International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials is now available at http://www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com/index.htm. Join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting held in Hyannis, MA, USA on beautiful Cape Cod, September 14-19, 2008.  

From Prof. Weidong Zhu at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The full oral program is now available via the conference website at http://www.tc4pca.elsevier.com/index.htm. Register now to participate at this well-received single session conference held in the beautiful Alpine village of Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

You are invited to present your research work on the mechanical behavior of nanocomposite materials (Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008 in Boston, MA). This topic will be focused on systematic mechanics experiments, modeling and simulations to solve new challenging mechanics problems such the effect of nanofiller agglomeration on the stiffness and strength reduction; interfacial stress transferring and interface strength evaluation at the nanoscale.  Deadline for abstract submission is March 3, 2008 (next Monday).

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing a symposium on Multifunctional Materials and Material Systems at IMECE2008 to be held in Boston, MA during Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008.

Abstract submission deadline: March 3, 2008 

This symposium will provide a forum for researchers to discuss the most recent developments in the synthesis, characterization and applications of various nanoporous materials systems such as nanoporous thin films and coatings, with a special focus on the various mechanics issues of this special class of materials.

When: Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008 in Boston, MA

Deadline for abstract submission: March 3, 2008

The  mini-symposium focuses on the link between the traditional materials modeling
and computational description of existing and new classes of materials, advanced and composite
materials and their applications. In particular, the mini-symposium is devoted to computational
characterization of material response and processing of material microstructures in the presence
of multiple temporal and spatial scales as well as multiple physical processes, and computational
methodologies for characterization of the microstructural topology of heterogeneous materials.
We invite contributions from physicists, chemists and materials researchers and engineers
involved in the following research areas or related topics:
 

To coincide with this year’s IMECE in Boston, the Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee is organizing a series of sessions to honor Professor John W. Hutchinson’s seminal contributions as he moves into semi-retirement. The organizers request abstracts in contemporary research related to fracture and failure mechanics. Topics that relate to Professor Hutchinson's many past and present research activities in other areas are also welcome.

We are now accepting abstracts. Please visit http://www.mecheng.iisc.ernet.in/~iqicf/ to get the template for abstracts. The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2008.

This symposium is part of the Spring 2008 ACS National Meeting and Exposition , to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, from Sunday, April 6 to Thursday, April 10, 2008.

Organizers: Christopher M. Stafford (NIST), Adam J. Nolte (NIST), Rui Huang (UT Austin)

Sponsors: ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) and National Science Foundation

Technical Program: