PACAM XIII - Modeling and Characterization of Ductile Failure
Dear Colleagues,
The Thirteenth
Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XIII) will be held in
Houston, TX, USA. The conference dates are May 22-24th, 2013.
Phononics 2013
We cordially invite you to participate in Phononics 2013: The Second International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Optomechanics – to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from June 2–7, 2013. The conference covers the following themes:
(1) phononic crystals, (2) acoustic metamaterials, (3) wave propagation in periodic structures, (4) nanoscale phonon transport, and (5) optomechanics.
More information available at: www.phononics2013.org.
Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications
A Special Session on Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications is being organized within the 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 2013, June 24-26, Torino, Italy), http://www.mul2.polito.it/smart13. Organizers are M. Paggi, L. De Lorenzis and A. Piccolroaz.
Deadline to submit abstracts for PACAM XIII extended
Based on several requests, the deadline to submit abstracts for the Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics XIII has been extended to the 1st of February. This years PACAM will be held in Houston, TX--the first time PACAM is being held in North America! The conference will feature plenary talks by Professors Alan Needleman, K. Ravichandar and Roger Fosdick.
The link to the conference website is here: http://www.conferencetoolbox.org/PACAMXIII/
Living cells behave as fluid-filled sponges
Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published in Nature Materials.
Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL have shown that animal cells behave according to the theory of ‘poroelasticity’ when mechanically stimulated in a way similar to that experienced in organs within the body. The results indicate that the rate of cell deformation in response to mechanical stress is limited by how quickly water can redistribute within the cell interior.
USNCCM 2013, Raleigh, USA: MS on Multiscale computational homogenization
You are welcome to submit abstracts to the MS 4.5 "Multiscale Computational homogenization for bridging scales in the mechanics and physics of complex materials", organized by P. Wriggers, K. Terada, V. Kouznetsova, M. Cho and myself at the 12th US National Congress on Computation Mechanics (USNCCM), July 22-25, 2013, in Raleigh, USA.
The deadline fo abstract submission is February 15, 2013.
The topics of the MS can be found here:
Post-doctoral positions on Multiscale Materials Modeling at IMDEA Materials Institute
IMDEA Materials Institute (www.materials.imdea.org) is looking for post-doctoral researchers to work in two research projects devoted to:
- Development of multiscale modeling strategies to simulate the mechanical performance of structural composites under impact
- Development of microstructure-based multiscale models to simulate the mechanical behavior of Ni-based superalloys
Bioinspired Surfaces with Dynamic Topography for Active Control of Biofouling
Phanindhar Shivapooja†, Qiming Wang†, Beatriz Orihuela, Daniel Rittschof, and Gabriel P. López, Xuanhe Zhao
† Equal contribution
gabriel.lopez [at] duke.edu
3rd African Conference on Computational Mechanics - Minisymposium on Computational modeling of nano- and microstructured materia
We cordially invite you to participate in at the 3rd African Conference on Computational Mechanics - An International Conference – AfriCOMP13 (July 30 – August 2, 2013, Livingston, Zambia) by giving a talk in our minisymposium "Computational modeling of nano- and microstructured materials".