First announcement and call for papers.
The symposium "Fundamentals of Nanoindentation and Nanotribology" will run for the fourth time at the Fall, 2007, Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
Time: 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm, Wednesday, 6 June 2007.
Place: TCC 2.120 , UT Austin. (The room is reserved form 5:45 pm to 10:00 pm.)
Session moderators: Rui Huang and K. Ravi-Chander
Audience: Anyone interested in iMechanica. See a thread of discussion initiated by Pradeep Sharma. The event is free for all. So if you are local but are not attending McMat, you are still welcome to drop by.
The 28th Risø International Symposium on Materials Science addresses the whole range from fundamental understanding to industrial applications. Topics include:
More information, including invited key-note speakers, see web site here.
dear Imechanica users,
a wonderful location for our annual italian conference in stress analysis -- see www.aias2007.it. It is organized by our collegues in Università di Napoli, Prof. Renato Esposito. Attached the call for papers in PDF, and more info are below.
Fracture in bone is a complex process that depends on the volume fraction (the relative fraction of bone tissue vs. void space), the architecture (the geometrical arrangement of the tissue), the mechanical properties of the bone tissue itself, and the applied loads. Theoretical approaches to the fracture of porous materials have been developed but their application to bone may be limited as they assume homogeneity of both the structure and the underlying material. The adaptation of the mechanical properties of bone to its loading history results in substantial heterogeneity of mechanical properties primarily due to the wide range of loads applied in the skeleton. Furthermore, bone diseases as well as pharmaceutical treatments for bone diseases can also affect the heterogeneity of material properties. All the above effects are intricately linked with bone micro-structure which incorporates collagen and mineral at the nanoscale in widely varying topological manners. With a wide ranging heterogeneity in length-scales of bone fracture it becomes imperative that fracture and failure analyses of bones are carried out at multiple lengthscales using a combination of modeling and experimental approaches. In this mini-symposium computational, experimental, and theoretical presentation of research on analyzing fracture of cortical as well as cancellous bone architectures are solicited. Presentations on computational and theoretical method development, experimental behavior characterization, and forming a link between theory and experiments are all strongly encouraged.
Dear Colleagues:
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the symposium on "Nanostructured Materials including Nanocrystalline Materials, Nanoporous Materials, Active Nanomaterials and Structures." This mini symposium is listed under Track 21 -- Processing and Engineering Applications of Novel Materials as (21-2 Symposium on Multifunctional Materials and Structures) at the 2007 ASME IMECE, which will be held on Nov. 12-15, 2007 in Seattle, Washington.
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to announce that the ICCES08( International Conference on
Computational and Experimental Engineering & Sciences) will be held at the
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, in Honolulu, Hawaii, during 17-22 March
2008.
Deadlines:
. 1 Oct 2007: Deadline for Mini-symposia proposals (email: icces [at] icces.org (icces[at]icces[dot]org)).
. 1 Oct 2007: Start abstract submission (http://www.icces.org).
. 15 Dec 2007: Deadline for abstract submission.
. 20 Dec 2007: End of abstract selection.
. 1 Jan 2008: Start early registration & hotel reservation (at discounted
rates).
. 15 Jan 2008: Deadline for early registration.
. 1 Feb 2008: Deadline for final 6-page paper submission to:
http://submission.techscience.com/icces08.
. 1 Feb 2008: Technical program announcement.
. 1 Mar 2008: Deadline for the regular registration.
The conference hotel is in a tourist area of the Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
For those that make reservations by 1 January 2008, the hotel offers a
substantially discounted rate of about US$149/night (single or double
occupancy) (The room rates in Honolulu are normally about $265/night in
Waikiki). The conference deadlines above have been chosen to facilitate
inexpensive hotel accommodations for ALL the participants at the conference
hotel. Further details of ICCES08 will be posted continually at
http://www.icces.org. To ensure that you receive further e-mails about
ICCES08, please "sign up" at http://www.icces.org
If you are interested in hosting a mini-symposium at ICCES08, please send
us an email (icces [at] icces.org):
. The title of the Symposium,
. A brief description of the Symposium
. A list of potential participants whom you plan to invite( as comprehensive
as possible)
Each presentation at ICCES08 will be of 20 minutes duration (including
discussions). Keynote and Plenary Lectures will be of longer duration.
At ICCES08, very strict procedures will be implemented, to prevent no-shows.
Please submit an abstract, only if you intend to present the paper in
person, in good faith.
All accepted papers will appear in the open access journal, ICCES(
www.techscience.com/icces).
We look forward to welcoming you to Honolulu, Hawaii, in March 2008.
ICCES08 Organizing Committee
Email: icces [at] icces.org (icces[at]icces[dot]org)
http://www.icces.org
Attached is the first announcement and call for papers for "nanomech 8", the 8th European Symposium on Nanomechanical Testing to be held in Huckelhoven, Germany, 3rd-5th September, 2007. Full details are also available at the conference website. The special focus for this year's meeting is "Across the scales: Size effects and scaling phenomena in micro- and nano-mechanics". Abstracts are due 5th May, 2007.
In December 2007 Elsevier will organise the 2nd International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues (www.icmobt.elsevier.com). The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of the modeling and measurement of deformation and fracture behavior in biological materials and in those materials which are used to replace them in the human body.
