WCCM 2024 - Advances in discretization techniques, element technology, mesh adaptivity, and solution strategies for inelasticity, localization, and failure

We are organizing a Minisymposium "Advances in discretization techniques, element technology, mesh adaptivity, and solution strategies for inelasticity, localization, and failure" for the upcoming 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics (https://www.wccm2024.org/) taking place July 21-26 (2024) in Vancouver, Canada. Please consider contributing an abtract to this minisymposium (more info here, or below) or one of the many other exciting minisymposiums before the deadline on January 15, 2024. Questions to mrbuche@sandia.gov or one of the other organizers.

In this minisymposium we seek to highlight challenging problems in computational solid mechanics that require rapid modeling building and mesh adaptivity for solution. We focus on finite element and other emerging discretization methods for large deformations and the accompanying inelasticity, localization, and failure. Discussion will center on Lagrangian descriptions and the necessary computational components to resolve, preserve, and evolve the fields that govern these processes. Prototypical material systems may include, but are not limited to, polymers, structural metals, and biomaterials.

Topics of interest:

• Novel methods for discretization
• Tetrahedral, hexahedral, and other 3D element technology
• Local remeshing including topological changes and smoothing
• Field recovery and mapping of internal variables

Organizers:

Alejandro Mota (SNL), David R. Nobel (SNL), Michael R. Buche (SNL), Brandon L. Talamini (LLNL), Michael R. Tupek (LLNL), Julian J. Rimoli (UC Irvine), N. Sukumar (UC Davis), James W. Foulk III (SNL).