ISCM III-CSE II, December 2011, Taipei, Minisymposium of "Multiscale Methods in Plasticity"

We invite the submission of abstracts for a Minisymposium of Multiscale Methods in Plasticity at the Third International Symposium of Computational Mechanics (ISCM III) in conjunction with the Second Symposium on Computational Structural Engineering (CSE II), which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, December 5-7 2011. Abstract submission deadline is July 15, 2011. Please check the conference website for more details (http://iscm3.caece.net/index.html).

Plastic deformation involves important phenomena across multiple length scales. Physics-based modeling of material plasticity requires the understanding of those phenomena at every single scale as well as linking scales in order to pass fundamental deformation mechanisms from the atomistic to the macroscale. This minisymposium invites presentations on recent research related to multiscale methods in plasticity, including but not limited to Ab-initio, molecular dynamics, dislocation dynamics, crystal plasticity, computational continuum plasticity, and coupling between these methods.

Organizers:

Professor Zhiqiang Wang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas

Professor Jaafar El-Awady, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Professor Akiyuki Takahashi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science

Professor Alfonso Ngan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong

Professor Nasr Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles