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)
We are pleased to release the above confirmed invited speakers in symposium E-1: symposium on Mechanics and Electrochemistry of Energy Materials at the SES 2016 to be held at University of Maryland College Park (October 2-5, 2016). Please consider joining us to attend our symposium to enjoy their invited presentations and present your own research as well. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2016. Please submit your abstract(s) here. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the symposium organizers. We look forward to your submissions.
Symposium Organizers:
Prof. Siva Nadimpalli, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Email: siva.p.nadimpalli@njit.edu
Prof. Yifei Mo, University of Maryland-College Park
Email: yfmo@umd.edu
Prof. Kejie Zhao, Purdue University
Email: kjzhao@purdue.edu
Dr. Zheng Jia, Northwestern University
Email: zheng.jia@northwestern.edu
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 platform to exchange ideas and promote this exciting new area of research. The deadline for abstract submission is June 15th.
We look forward to having you join us!
Symposium co-organizers:
Francois Barthelat, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Lorenzo Valdevit, UC Irvine, California, USA
Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA
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)
Fracture is a fascinating, nonlinear and often dynamic, phenomenon occurring on many scales. In many systems, small-scale perturbations may lead to large scale system fragilities and catastrophic fractures. Understanding the underpinnings of material response at the microscale, including origins of friction and adhesion, and their implications for fracture at macro scale is thus of vital importance to many engineering, biological, and geophysical applications. This minisymposium solicits contributions in all fields related to multiscale physics, computational modeling and experimental investigations relevant to fracture and fragmentation processes in quasi-brittle solids. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: (a) constitutive modeling appropriate for modeling friction and adhesion at the microscale, (b) thermodynamics based models for bulk damage and its rate dependence, (c) theoretical analysis of crack nucleation and initiation, (e ) experimental observation of crack nucleation and propagation at different length scales (investigations on dynamic fracture is particularly welcome), and (d) computational modeling of fracture.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Best Regards, Ahmed and Ravi