conference

10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics
July 16-19, 2009. Columbus, Ohio

Minisymposium 2.2.5  Ab Initio and Intermediate Atomistics in Computational Nanomechanics 

Organizers: 

Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

Boris I. Yakobson, Rice University 

10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics
July 16-19, 2009. Columbus, Ohio

A mini-symposium on Extended/generalized FEM and other partition of unity based methods

mini-symposium 2.14.2

Materials Modeling: Recent Progress in Metal and Ceramic Based Systems, http://icces.org/cgi-bin/ices09/pages/index

A Symposium for ASCE-ASME-SES-Conference, Material Response to Shock Loading (Computational and Experimental), http://www.cpe.vt.edu/mech09/index.html

Mechaero Group is a registered charitable trust established (Tamilnadu, India)
in 2004 to foster the link between the industry and academia in the fields of
mechanical and aerospace engineering. One of the key initiatives by this trust
is to publish the Journal of Vehicle Structures: Analysis & Optimisation (JVSAO)
with the following features:

Papers are solicited in the following and related areas: 

Dear Colleagues,

The deadline for submitting an abstract to the international
conference "Fluid and Elasticity 2009" is approaching.

   ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DEC. 19

To submit your abstract, please follow the instructions on:
https://www.irphe.univ-mrs.fr/%7Efe09/abstracts.html

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. 17th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM on COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN ORTHOPAEDIC BIOMECHANICS, http://www.pre-ORS.org, Saturday, February 21st, 2009, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Online Registration & Abstract Submission Deadline: December 8, 2008

Deadline for abstracts is March 15, 2009. 

Call for papers (abstract dealine: 28 Feb, 2009): 

"Advances in smart materials and adaptive structures" symposium to be held at the third international conference on integrity, reliability and failure, IRF2009

July 20-24, 2009 Porto, Portugal  

Sponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto 

The Solid Mechanics group of the University of Trento (Italy) announces ISDMM09, the fourth international meeting devoted to Mechanics of Material Forces, following the workshops held at Kaiserslautern (2003), Symi (2005) and Aussois (2007), and will be held in the alpine city of Trento, Italy, from July 6th to 9th, 2009.

Abstract submission: January 31, 2009

More info: http://portale.unitn.it/events/isdmm09

Deadline for Abstract submission: November 3. See www.mrs.org/spring2009.  A symposium entitled "Structure-Property Relationships in Biomineralized and Biomimetic Composites " will be organized at the MRS-spring meeting in San Francisco next year (April 13-17, 2009).

Deadline for Abstract submission: November 3. See www.mrs.org/spring2009.  A symposium entitled "Architectured Multifunctional Materials" will be organized at the MRS-spring meeting in San Francisco next year (April 13-17, 2009). For details see below and attached file.

I would like to invite everyone attending the 2008 ASME IMECE next week in Boston to attend a keynote lecture given by Prof. Ted Belytschko of Northwestern University.  The lecture will occur at 1:45 PM on Tuesday, November 4, and will be entitled "Multiscale Computations of Fracture - When Does Flaw Tolerance Occur?" 

Further information on Prof. Belytschko's talk can be found here: 

http://www.asmeconferences.org/Congress08/PlenarySessions.cfm

CMIS09

5th Contact Mechanics International Symposium

April 28-30, 2009, Chania, Greece

www.cmis2009.tuc.gr

 organized by

Prof. G.E. Stavroulakis

Technical University of Crete

Extended deadline for abstract submission: 31 October

&

Confirmed invited speakers 

Call for papers

2009 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13-17

Symposium PP: Materials and Devices for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics

Abstract Deadline: 3 November 2008

www.mrs.org/spring2009

In conjunction with the 2nd International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2009

Save the date for SBC2009!

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), with the support of ECCOMAS, invites you to participate in the fourth edition of the international conference Smart Structures and Materials (SMART’09), that will be held at the Campus of FEUP, at the city of Porto, Portugal, from July 13-15, 2009 (www.fe.up.pt/~smart09).

ICSAAM 2009

International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials

September 7-10 2009, Tarbes France

Official Website

SCOPE OF ICSAAM 2009

We are now accepting abstracts on: 

• Mechanics of hard and soft biological materials
• Mechanics of biomimetic materials and systems
• Experimental methods applied to biological materials and systems 

Sponsor: Biological Systems and Materials Technical Division (http://sem.org/TDIV-BiologicallyInspiredMaterials.asp) 

Organizers:

Dynamic Behavior of Materials Track at 2009 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics,

June 1-3, 2009 Albuquerque, NM

Abstract Deadline: October 16th, 2008

Sponsored by: The SEM Dynamic Behavior of Materials Technical Division

Organized by: Kathryn A. Dannemann (Chair), Southwest Research Institute;

                        Vijay Chalivendra (Vice Chair), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth;

                        Bo Song (Secretary), Sandia National Laboratories

ASCE, ASME and SES will hold their Joint Conference on Mechanics and Materials on June 24-27, 2009 in Blacksburg, VA.  The conference will be chaired by Dr. Ishwar K. Puri, Department Head, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech. The conference web site provides details, including an invitation to submit symposium and organized session proposals, key dates, instructions for the submission of abstracts and registration information.