Call for abstract submission at MACH Conference 2025: "Discrete Matters" [deadline December 6, 2024]

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Dear Colleagues:

We would like to cordially invite you to attend the symposium entitled "Discrete Matters" organized at the Mach Conference. The conference will be held April 9–11, 2025, in Annapolis, Maryland.

Summary: Mechanical metamaterials are artificial materials designed to exhibit exotic properties rarely found in nature. Their unique properties stem from their geometric arrangement–usually periodic although disorder may be incorporated to improve functionalities–rather than composition. In the last decade, advances in additive manufacturing techniques enabled the manufacturing of intricate mechanical metamaterials, revolutionizing the field.

This symposium aims at providing a forum for investigators to discuss and disseminate novel theoretical, computational, and experimental contributions on the mechanics and design of mechanical metamaterials and their engineering applications across various stiffness-, strength-, length- and time-scales. Examples of topics in this symposium include (but are not limited to):

• design algorithms including data-driven and optimization techniques
• nonlinear mechanics and failure of lattice materials, foams, origami, kirigami, tessellations, and tensegrities
• disordered mechanical metamaterials including granular materials
• structural, acoustic, thermal, mechanical, biomechanical, electromagnetic, and other applications
• advances in 3D/4D printing of metamaterials
• multi-stability, reconfigurability, tunability and other interesting functional properties

We look forward to having you join us!

The deadline for abstracts is December 6, 2024.

Organizers:

Theocharis Baxevanis  (tbaxevanis@uh.edu)

Shailendra Joshi  (shailendra@uh.edu)

Tian (Tim) Chen  (tianchen@uh.edu)