Symposium on Advances in modeling and applications of cellular solids at McMAT, Chicago IL, May 31 - June 2

Dear Colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to participate in the symposium on "Advances in modeling and applications of cellular solids" at the ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, McMAT-2011. The conference will be held in Chicago, IL from May 31 to June 2, 2011.

More information about the conference is available at:

http://www.asmeconferences.org/McMat2011/index.cfm  

If you do plan to participate, we request that you submit an abstract to the symposium at the earliest possible. Please note that the last date for abstract submission is February 15, 2011, which will likely be extended to the end of February.  

The symposium abstract is attached and a summary of the symposium topics is given below:

• Emerging applications of metallic foams, polymeric foams, shape memory foams and other bio-inspired materials
• Manufacturing processes of foams and modeling of these processes
• Analytical and numerical modeling of the thermal, mechanical, chemical, acoustic and other physical properties of foams
• Experimental investigations of the behavior of foams
• Large-scale cellular and reticulated structures  

We would greatly appreciate your contribution and participation. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your students and colleagues as appropriate.

Looking forward to your participation in this symposium and the McMat conference. Best regards,

Arun Prakash (Purdue University),

Murat Vural (Illinois Institute of Technology),

Ertugrul Taciroglu (University of California Los Angeles)