SES 2016

Confirmed invited speakers:

Sheldon Brian (Brown University)

Sulin Zhang (Penn State University)

Ting Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Matt Pharr (UIUC)

Shuman Xia (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Vivek Shenoy (University of Pennsylvania)

Wayne Chen (Purdue University)

Yue Qi (Michigan State University)

Yuefei Zhang (Beijing University of Technology)

Shengping Shen (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

The 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science will be held at the University of Maryland (UMD), 2-5 October 2016. We are organizing a symposium on Architectured Metamaterials which will cover research on the structure, mechanics, design, optimization, fabrication and mechanical performance of all categories of architectured materials including but not limited to lattice materials, metamaterials, topologically interlocked materials and bio-inspired materials. We expect that the SES meeting and this symposium will offer a great platfor

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to consider submitting abstracts to the following minisymposium taking place as part of the Soceity of Engineering Sciences meeting to be hosted by the University of Maryland (October 4-7, 2016)

D-9 :Friction, Fracture and damage (http://ses2016.org/symposium-d-9-friction-fracture-and-damage/)

Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) and K. Ravi-Chandar (University of Texas at Austin)