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To motivate students to attend the conference, ASC 2017 offers up to 20 travel scholarships including free registration and travel expenses up to $500. The top six will also receive additional cash prizes. Details can be found at https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017/scholarship. Professors, please encourage your students to apply. The abstract due date is Feb. 17.  More details about the conference can be found at https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017.

We are delighted to invite you to attend the American Society for Composites Annual Technical Conference which will be held on the campus of Purdue University, Oct. 23-25, 2017. The conference website is: https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017. 

The conference welcomes all papers related with various aspects of composites science and technology. There are total of 25 tracks organized. The important dates are:

The 21st International Conference on Composites Materials (ICCM-21) will be held in Xi'an, China, August 20-25, 2017. ICCM, the most premier conference in the field of composite materials, aims at encouraging the exchange of the researches and insights from scientists and scholars, and promoting research, development and use of composite material and structures. You are welcome to  submit to Track 2.2 Multiscale Modeling of Structures to share your great ideas on multiscale modeling.

I hope this information will be helpful for some researchers. We recently integrated TexGen with SwiftComp, called TexGen4SC, to provide a very easy app to compute thermoelastic properties for textile composites for all the types of woven microstructures which can be generated by TexGen. This tool can achieve RVE analysis accuracy with a very small fraction of its computing time. This tool can respect the finite thickness of a woven fabric. It can be freely launched on any device (smart phones, ipads, etc) connected to Internet.

RVE analysis is popular for computational homogenization. It can be used independently for virtual testing or as a module for multiscale modeling. Its popularity is mainly due to the maturity and acceptance of commercial finite element software. RVE analysis usually requires a 3D domain to obtain 3D properties and local fields. If a 2D RVE is used, only 2D properties and local fields are obtained. To obtain the complete set of properties, multiple analysis is needed. For example, to obtain the complete stiffness matrix, six 3D RVE analyses are needed.

Purdue will host the 32nd American Society for Composites (ASC) Annual Technical Conference. This conference convene composites researchers from around the world to interact with industry, government and academia, fostering collaborations among all stake holders in the composites community. More detailed information can be found at the conference website at https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017.

Join us for the 2016 Composites Simulation Workshop at Purdue University. Learn about and engage with world-class researchers and industry experts in multi-scale composites modeling. Interact with state-of-the-art composites simulation software; hear expert, cutting-edge advances in strength and lifecycle prediction modeling. Experience composites 3D printing and advances in composites manufacturing modeling for high-rate automotive applications.

Join us at the American Society for Composites 31st Technical Conference (Williamsburg, VA) for a hands-on workshop, on September 18, from 7:00–9:00pm, on how to use cdmHUB.org for composites learning, teaching, and research in the cloud. This workshop features an overview of the cdmHUB cyberinfrastructure, and how to use cdmHUB for learning, teaching, and research. We will demonstrate how to use cdmHUB to develop and launch composites simulation tools.

Dear Imechanicians,