The Adhesion Society will hold its 32nd Annual Meeting in Savannah, GA February 15-18, 2009; uniting chemists, physicists, mechanists, engineers, and biologists concerned with the design and characterization of materials interfaces and their associated property of adhesion.  Adhesion and interfacial constrol are key to the development of nano- and bio- based technologies as well structural and cosmetic applications that influence society in everyday life. 

FYI. If you have any questions, please contact the organizer directly (see link below). 

http://www.mmm2008.org/bin/view.pl/Main/WebHome

The Fourth International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling
October 27-31, 2008, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Symposium 1: Mathematical issues in multiscale materials modeling

Symposium 2: Statistical methods for materials deformation and failure

Symposium 3: Multiscale mechanics

Hello from Adelaide, Australia.  I'm at the IUTAM Congress.  The big news today:  the 2012 IUTAM Congress will be held in Beijing.  The Chinese delegates made a brilliant bidding.  Among promised items are good food, low registration fee (which will pay for all lunches), National Conference Center in the Olympic Village, and a tour to the Great Wall (which is also included in the registration fee).  So start planning for the trip.

Professor Bai Yilong, of the Cinhese Academy of Sciences, will chair the 2012 Congress. 

The 7th International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials will be held in Hyannis, Mass., USA, 14-19 September. Hyannis is situated 80 mi/130 km from Boston's Logan International Airport and is easily reached either by car or by public transport.

The full oral and poster programs, as well as registration details can be found on the conference website at www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com

In December 2006 the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Executive Committee approved a new technical committee, Committee on Fluid-Structure Interaction (CFSI). The CFSI is sponsoring 6 mini-symposia within Track 12 "Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids" of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, in Boston, October 31 - November 6, 2008. These 6 mini-symposia will have a total of 17 sessions and are titled:

The ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) technical committees and ASME members affiliated with the AMD have been very active in organizing a wide range of mechanics-related symposia (topics) in Track 12 "Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids" of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress (IMECE 2008). IMECE 2008 will be held on October 31 - November 6, 2008, in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the count taken at the time this report was prepared, Track 12 has a total of 517 presentations in 31 symposia, a plenary session and a poster session. Track 12 will have two track-plenary lectures on Monday (November 3rd) morning, to be delivered by Thomas J.R. Hughes (University of Texas, Austin) and Robert McMeeeking (University of California, Santa Barbara).

The deadline for early-bird registration, with a $50 saving, is 28 August 2008.  Please consider to register for the Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards Banquet to meet your friends, and to congratulate the winners. 

( Call for Papers pdf)

The 5th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives will be held in the beautiful Alpine village of Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 7-11 September. Les Diablerets is situated 120 km from Geneva's international airport and is easily reached either by car or by public transport.

The full oral and poster programs, as well as registration details can be found on the conference website at www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know about the upcoming NAFEMS North American 2008 Regional Summit: NAFEMS 2020 Vision of Engineering Analysis and Simulation. This is an excellent opportunity for academic researchers, industrial practitioners and software developers to meet for mutual benefit.

For those of who you not familiar with NAFEMS, it is a non-profit, vendor neutral, engineering analyis community.

At this moment, we have an excellent keynote line-up, including the following individuals: Prof. Ahmed Noor (Old Dominion University), Dr. Takeshi Abe (Ford Motor Company), Prof. Tom Hughes (Univ. of Texas-Austin), Prof. Mary Boyce (M.I.T.), and Dr. Joel Orr (Cyon Research).

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to bring to your attention the First Announcement & Call for Abstracts for the

3rd International Conference on Integrity, Reliability & Failure

 

http://www.contactmechanics.org/

Delft 22 - 24 October

Chairmen:    

Tom Scarpas     Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Patrick Selvadurai     McGill University, Canada

Dear colleagues,

I would like to bring to your attention the advanced course on Modeling of localized inelastic deformation that will be taught by Milan Jirasek in Prague, Czech Republic on 22-26 September 2008. 
More detailed information on the course is posted at http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2008.html. We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague!

Prof Jean -Baptiste Leblond (http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~leblond/)

kindly invited me to give a seminar at Inst. d'alembert - Paris VI

Hello

I am trying to learn Abaqus but I am facing some problems. I will be very much grateful if you  kindly give the solutions of the following problems.

 I want to know,

 1. How to assign two different areas on a two dimensional part?

2. How to tie different parts and locate coincident nodes at the boundaries of instances on the assembly?

3. How to merge coincident nodes?

I really want to learn it, please help me.

Thank you.

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Dear Esteemed Researcher,

The US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics is seeking proposals from US institutions interested in hosting the 2014 US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. If you are interested, please contact K. Ravi-Chandar: kravi@mail.utexas.edu for more information. 

Summer School on "Modeling and Computation in Biomechanics"

A one-week Summer School on "Modeling and Computation in Biomechanics" will take place in Graz, Austria, in September 15-19, 2008. The aim of the Summer School is to present a state of-the-art introduction to biomechanical modeling and computation at different length scales. The emphasis s on the nonlinear behavior embracing models of molecular dynamics, single filaments, etwork structures, the cytoskeleton and the nucleus. Multiscale models and ontinuum models for soft tissues including arteries, aortic valves, cartilage and the cornea will also be presented.

The oral presentation program for the 1st International Conference on Abrasive Processes (ICAP-1) is now available at the conference website (www.icap.elsevier.com). Evolving from earlier meetings [the International Conference on Liquid and Solid Impact (ELSI-IX) and the International Conference on Erosive and Abrasive Wear (ICEAW-II)], ICAP-1 will be held in the historic city of Cambridge, England, 21-25 September 2008. You are invited to join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting.

Hi, Everyone,

    I would like to seek a conference paper titled "EPC method for PDF solution of nonlinear oscillators excited by Poisson white noise" in the proceedings of the 18th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division Conference, June, 2007, Virginia, USA. (CD-ROM). Acutally, I am the second author of the paper and haven't participated in the conference because of no USA visa. So, I have not a copy of the proceedings.

   If you have a copy of the CD-Rom, would you please help me to send a PDF file of the said paper to me?  I only want to know the page number of the said paper.

   Many thanks. 

 H. T. Zhu

Email: ya57401@umac.mo

The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics will be held from June 8 to 10, 2009, at Columbia University, New York City. The conference web site is located at: http://www.civil.columbia.edu/biot/

We are now calling for abstracts. Please send the one-page abstracts by e-mail to biot@civil.columbia.edu (deadline: May 31, 2008).

Examples of Technical Sessions:
-Numerical Simulation of Crystal Growth (Koichi Kakimoto)
-Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling of Porous Media (X. Frank Xu)
-Strain Localization in Saturated and Partially Saturated Porous Media