Dear Colleagues, We’re pleased to announce that the online
application for the Congress Support Grants is available now. For further
instructions on how to apply for the support, please visit
http://www.ictam2012.org.

ICTAM2012 will have at its disposal limited
funds to provide partial support to participants who are authors of an accepted
presentation, but unable to secure adequate funds from their home countries.
The deadline for receipt of the form is January 18, 2012. The decision on the
allocation of grants by the LOC, based on the recommendation of the
InternationalPapers Committee, will be made by May 1, 2012. 

ICTAM2012 Secretariat

Dear Colleagues,

The 23rd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
(ICTAM2012) of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
(IUTAM) will be held in Beijing, China, from 19 to 24 August,
2012. The Congress will cover all branches of theoretical and applied
mechanics and related sciences. It will be held in the China National Convention
Center (CNCC), which is located in the heart of the Olympic Green of Beijing,
adjacent to the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) and the National Aquatics Center
(Water Cube). The ICTAM2012 is hosted by the Chinese Society of Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics (CSTAM).

You are cordially invited to contribute to and participate in ICTAM2012.

In this paper, we report comprehensive experimental and theoretical
studies of bending in structures relevant to inorganic flexible electronics.
Different from previous mechanics models of related systems, our analysis does not
assume the thin film to cover the entire substrate, thereby explicitly
accounting for effects of edges and finite device sizes, both of which play
critically important roles in the mechanics and bending properties. These
thin-film islands give nonuniform stress, with maxima that often appear at the
edges and spatially non-uniform shear and normal stresses along the film/substrate
interface. Although these results are generally applicable to all classes of

Prof.D.N. Fang and his collaborators (Prof. Y.P. Wan, Prof. X. Feng and Prof. A.K. Soh) work on the functional materials, such as ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials. Recently, he published a review article which presents an overview of recent progress on magnetomechanical deformation and fracture of ferromagnetic materials. Following a brief introduction of the classical magnetoelasticity and the magnetomechanical behavior of traditional ferromagnetics, recent development on the deformation and fracture of soft ferromagnetic materials and the mechanics of ferromagnetic composites is critically reviewed.