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Call for abstracts: 2016 SES Conference: Symposium C-1: Bio-Adhesive Contacts and Biomimetics with Extreme Properties

Submitted by Yanfei Gao on

Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to contribute to the following symposium at SES 2016. Please note the deadline of 6/15/2016. Many thanks!

 

http://ses2016.org/symposium-c-1-bio-adhesive-contacts-and-biomimetics-…

 

Symposium C1: Bio-Adhesive Contacts and Biomimetics with Extreme Properties

 

A critical thickness condition for graphene and other 2D materials

Submitted by Harley T. Johnson on

B. C. McGuigan, P. Pochet, and H. T. Johnson, Critical thickness for interface misfit dislocation formation in two-dimensional materials, Phys. Rev. B 93, 214103, 2016.

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.214103

[Call for Abstract] SES 2016 Symposium F-3: Wave Phenomena in Linear and Nonlinear Metamaterials

Submitted by stefanogonella on

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium F-3: Wave Phenomena in Linear and Nonlinear Metamaterials at the SES 53rd Annual Technical Meeting (SES2016) to be held October 2-5 2016 in College Park, MD.

Symposium Technical Description

2016 Stephen P. Timoshenko Medal - Professor Ray W. Ogden

Submitted by Executive Comm… on

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Ray W. Ogden, George Sinclair Professor of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, as the recipient of the 2016 Timoshenko Medal.

2016 Warner T. Koiter Medal – Professor Pedro Ponte Castañeda

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The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, as the recipient of the 2016 Warner T. Koiter Medal.

2016 Daniel C. Drucker Medal - Professor Kyung-Suk Kim

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The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Kyung-Suk Kim, Professor of Engineering, Brown University, as the recipient of the 2016 Daniel C. Drucker Medal.

New Book: Mechanics IUTAM USNC/TAM

Submitted by Carl T. Herakovich on

A new book on mechancis by Carl T. Herakovich has been published by Springer, both as an eBook and in hard cover.

A summary of the book follows.

Mechanics IUTAM USNC/TAM

A History of People, Events, and Communities

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-32312-1

The book provides a detailed history of the United States National Committee on

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) of the US National Academies,