12thU.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (US-NCCM12)

Dear Colleagues:

We cordially invite you to participate in the 12thU.S. National Congress on
Computational Mechanics (US-NCCM12) by giving a talk in our minisymposium
titled Multiscale Mechanics Modeling of Phase Transitions.The Congress will be
held in Raleigh, NC, USA during July 22-25, 2013.

Abstract: Phase transition is a broad term associated with materials that may possess distinct
solid phases that are stable or metastable variants of the underlying
structure. These variants may nucleate and evolve under external stimuli. As a
result they may co-exist within a microstructure and are typically delineated
by interfaces that evolve. Some examples of such microstructures are shape
memory alloys, ferroelectric materials, twinned metals, and many more. Structural
changes in some biological systems (e.g. DNA, coiled-coil proteins, fibrin
filament networks, viruses, lipid membranes) may also be construed as a phase
transition phenomenon. Modeling the mechanics of phase transitions under
thermo-mechanical conditions has been a topic of immense interest that cuts
across many scientific and engineering disciplines. This mini-symposium aims at
bringing together researchers with a broad interest in modeling the evolution
of phase transitions in materials that span a wide range of stiffness scales.
Materials aspects of interest include, but are not limited, to phase transition
in shape memory materials, evolution of ferroelectric domain walls, twinning in
metals, phase changes in biological systems, etc. These phenomena may be
addressed using a wide range of modeling techniques such as molecular dynamics,
lattice-based models (lattice statics and lattice dynamics), continuum
mechanics or hybrid methods that combine these approaches. Also of interest are
mechanism-based approaches informed by real or virtual experiments to model the
phase transition behaviors within a continuum framework.

Important dates:

Abstracts due: February 15, 2013. Please submit via http://12.usnccm.org/abstract-submission

Acceptance notification: March 15, 2013

Travel Award Applications: March 1 - 31, 2013

Early Registration: March 15-May 15, 2013

We look forward to your participation at IWCMM XXII.

Kind Regards,

Organizers:

Prashant K. Purohit

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department

Univ. of Pennsylvania

purohit@seas.upenn.edu

William S. Klug

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Univ. of California Los Angeles

klug@seas.ucla.edu

Shailendra P. Joshi

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Univ. of Singapore.

shailendra@nus.edu.sg

Arash Yavari

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

arash.yavari@ce.gatech.edu