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.
Blog posts
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.
Nonlinear vibration of a nanoplate embedded on a Pasternak-type foundation using nonlocal continuum theory
Nonlinear vibration of a nanoplate embedded on a Pasternak-type foundation using nonlocal continuum theory
BY: Payam Soltani, V. Kamali , O. Pashaei Narenjbon, A. Farshidianfar
Abstract:
Nonlocal plate continuum model is utilized to investigate the nonlinear vibration behaviour of a singlelayer
nanoplate. The isotropic nanoplate is assumed to be embedded on a Pasternak-type elastic foundation with the
Theoretical models to predict the flexural failure of reinforced concrete beams under blast loads
The paper by Carta G. and Stochino F. presents two alternative approaches for the study of reinforced concrete beams under blast loads. In the first approach, the beam is modeled by means of Euler–Bernoulli’s theory and its elastic–plastic behavior is expressed through a new nonlinear relationship between bending moment and curvature. In the second approach, instead, the beam is idealized as a single degree of freedom system.
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/
Nonlinear Dynamics - 2013. Registration deadline extended till January 28th
Dear Colleagues,
The new deadline for abstract (plain text, 400 word limit) submission is now January 28, 2013.
The 4th conference "Nonlinear Dynamics -2013" will be held from 19 until 22 June, 2013 in Sevastopol (Ukraine).
Conference web-site: https://sites.google.com/site/ndkhpi2013/home
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.
CERMODEL2013 CONGRESS "Modelling and Simulation meet Innovation in Ceramics Technology" Trento, Italy, July 10-12, 2013
Webpage: http://events.unitn.it/en/cermodel2013
Deadline for 1 page-abstract submission: February 15, 2013
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: