Mini-Symposia
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Mechanics of Materials
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1-1 - Mechanics of Composite Materials
Organisers: Pedro Camanho (University of Porto), Paul Weaver (University of Limerick)
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1-2 - Micromechanics-based Nonlocal Continuum Models
Organisers: Lorenzo Bardella (University of Brescia), Samuel Forest (Mines ParisTech CNRS)
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1-3 - Architected Materials
Organisers: Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), Damiano Pasini (McGill University)
1-4 - Mechanics of Textile Composite Reinforcements and Fibrous Materials
Organisers: Philippe Boisse (Université de Lyon), Stepan Lomov (KU Leuven), Dmytro Vasiukov (IMT Lille Douai)
1-5 - Micro and Nano Systems and Applications
Organisers: Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University), Vittorio Ferrari (University of Brescia), Attilio Frangi (Politecnico di Milano), Maria F. Pantano (University of Trento)
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1-6 - Multiscale Modelling of Polycrystalline Materials
Organisers: Javier Segurado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Ricardo A. Lebensohn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
1-7 - Modelling of Multi-Functional Materials and Related Material Systems
Organisers: Stefanie Reese (Aachen University), Stanisław Stupkiewicz (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research)
1-8 - Topology Optimization for Additive Manufacturing
Organisers: Fred van Keulen (TU Delft), Pierre Duysinx (Liège University), Can Ayas (TU Delft)
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1-9 - Modelling of Plasticity at Multiple Length Scales
Organisers: Fionn Dunne (Imperial College London), Noel O'Dowd (University of Limerick)
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1-10 - Mechanics of Additive Manufactured Materials
Organisers: Catrin Davies (Imperial College London), Noel Harrison (NUI Galway)
1- 11 - Computational and Data Driven Homogenization for Nonlinear Composites
Organisers: Elio Sacco (University of Naples Federico II), Djimédo Kondo (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Felix Fritzen (University of Stuttgart), Sonia Marfia (University Roma Tre)
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1-12 - Polymer Mechanics
Organisers: Gary Menary (Queen’s University Belfast), Alex Lennon (Queen’s University Belfast)
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Biomechanics and Medical Implants
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2-1 - Mechanics of Biological Cells and Active Tissues
Organisers: José Manuel Garcia Aznar (Universidad de Zaragoza), Patrick McGarry (NUI Galway), Eoin McEvoy (NUI Galway)
2-2 - Mechanics of Soft Biological Tissues
Organisers: Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Graz University of Technology), Ray W. Ogden (University of Glasgow)
2-3 - Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Mechanobiology: from Basics to Clinical Applications
Organisers: Christian Cyron (Hamburg University of Technology), Alessandro Veneziani (Emory University), Caitríona Lally (Trinity College Dublin)
2-4 - Mechanics of Mineralised Tissues
Organisers: Glen Niebur (University of Notre Dame), Enrico Dall’Ara (University of Sheffield), Ted Vaughan (NUI Galway)
2-5 - Biomechanics of Blood Clots and Thrombectomy Devices
Organisers: Jose Rodriguez Matas (Politecnico di Milano), Ed Van Bavel (Amsterdam UMC), Behrooz Fereidoonnezhad (NUI Galway)
2-6 - Mechanics of Biodegradable Materials
Organisers: Lorenza Petrini (Politecnico di Milano), Joao Silva Soares (Virginia Commonwealth University), William Ronan (NUI Galway)
2-7 - Mechanics of Impact and Trauma
Organisers: Michael Gilchrist (University College Dublin), Svein Kleiven (KTH Stockholm), Andrew Post (University of Ottawa)
2-8 - Mechanics of Soft Robotic Devices
Organisers: Ellen Roche (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Xuanhe Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eimear Dolan (NUI Galway)
2-9 - Mechanics of Cardiovascular Implants and Devices: Modelling, Imaging and Testing
Organisers: Francesco Migliavacca (Politecnico di Milano), Michael Walsh (University of Limerick), Claire Conway (RCSI, Dublin)
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2-10 - Biotribology and Interface Mechanics of Tissue and Devices
Organisers: Rosaire Mongrain (McGill University), Mark Driscoll (McGill University)
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Continuum Mechanics
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3-1 - Contact Mechanics
Organisers: Michel Raous (Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics - CNRS), Peter Wriggers (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Giorgio Zavarise (Politecnico di Torino)
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3-2 - Homogenisation and Continuum Strategies for Multiphase and Active Materials
Organisers: Issam Doghri (Université catholique de Louvain), Nicolas Triantafyllidis (Ecole Polytechnique), Pedro Ponte Castañeda (University of Pennsylvania); Kostas Danas (Ecole Polytechnique)
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3-3 - Material Instabilities
Organisers: Ahmed Benallal (LMT, Ens Paris Saclay/CNRS), Henryk Petryk (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, IPPT)
3-4 – Mechanics and Physics of Dense Granular Media: Experiments, Theory and Modelling
Organisers: Lou Kondic (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Corey O'Hern (Yale University), Alessandro Gajo (University of Trento), Ken Kamrin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Stefan Luding (University of Twente)
3-5 - Mechanics and Physics of Structures
Organisers: Sebastien Neukirch (CNRS/UPMC), Benoit Roman (CNRS/UPMC), Keith Seffen (University of Cambridge), Francesco Dal Corso (University of Trento)
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3-6 - Advanced Modelling of Hydromechanically Driven Discontinuities
Organisers: Gennady Mishuris (Aberystwyth University), Alexandre Lavrov (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Brice Lecampion (EPFL, Lausanne), Panos Papanastasiou (University of Cyprus)
3-7 - Nonlinear Elasticity
Organisers: Luis Dorfmann (Tufts University), Yibin Fu (Keele University), Patrizio Neff (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen)
3-8 - Recent Advances in Damage Mechanics
Organisers: Claudia Comi (Politecnico di Milano), Jean-Francois Molinari (EPFL, Lausanne), Nicolas Moës (Ecole Centrale de Nantes)
3-9 - Generalized Continua – New Developments and Applications
Organisers: Panagiotis Gourgiotis (University of Thessaly), Enrico Radi (University of Modena), Andrea Nobili (University of Modena)
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3-10 - Stability of Soft Materials
Organisers: Michel Destrade (NUI Galway), Valentina Balbi (NUI Galway), Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
3-11 - Mechanics of Fatigue and Fretting
Organisers: Seán Leen (NUI Galway), David Nowell (Imperial College London), Siegfried Fouvry (École Centrale de Lyon)
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Experimental Mechanics
4-1 - Experimental Micromechanics and Nanomechanics
Organisers: Gerhard Dehm (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung), Jon Molina-Aldareguía (IMDEA Materials Institute), Miguel Monclus (IMDEA Materials Institute)
4-2 - In-situ Mechanics of Materials
Organisers: Eric Maire (INSA Lyon), Thomas Pardoen (Université Catholique de Louvain)
4-3 - Non-invasive and Inverse Methods for Constitutive Parameter Identification
Organisers: Sam Evans (Cardiff University, UK), Stéphane Avril (MINES Saint-Étienne), Kevin Moerman (NUI Galway), Dana Solav (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
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Computational Mechanics
5-1 - Cohesive-zone Modelling – Advances and Challenges
Organisers: Albert Turón (Universitat de Girona), Giulio Alfano (Brunel University), Bent F. Sørensen (Technical University of Denmark)
5-2 - Geometry and Discretisation
Organisers: Alessandro Reali (University of Pavia), Pablo Antolin (EPFL, Lausanne)
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5-3 - Modeling and Simulation Methods in Metal Additive Manufacturing
Organisers: Ignacio Romero (IMDEA Materials Institute), Adrian Lew (Stanford University)
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5-4 - Non-local Models for Damage and Fracture
Organisers: Ugo Galvanetto (University of Padua), Erkan Oterkus (University of Strathclyde)
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5-5 - Mechanics in Energy Harvesting and Storage
Organisers: Robert McMeeking (UC Santa Barbara), Alberto Salvadori (University of Brescia), Alejandro Franco (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Marc Kamlah (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge)
5-6 - Advances in Analytical and Discretisation Methods for Discontinuities and Singularities
Organisers: Elena Benvenuti (University of Ferrara), Andrea Chiozzi (University of Ferrara), N. Sukumar (UC Davies), Gianmarco Manzini (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Dynamics, Waves and Metamaterials
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6-1 - Nonlinear Dynamics in Mechanical and Structural Systems
Organisers: Sergey Sorokin (Aalborg University), Jon Juel Thomsen (Technical University of Denmark), Giuseppe Rega (Sapienza University of Rome), Ashu Sharma (Auburn University)
6-2 - Elastic Metamaterials
Organisers: Alexander Movchan (University of Liverpool), Sebastien Guenneau (CNRS-Imperial College London), Diego Misseroni (University of Trento)
6-3 - Dynamic Phenomena and Transition Processes in Structured Media
Organisers: Michael Nieves (Keele University), Andrea Piccolroaz (University of Trento), Anastasia Kisil (University of Manchester), Gennady Mishuris (Aberystwyth University)
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6-4 - Nonlinear Waves in Solids
Organisers: Aleksei Porubov (St. Petersburg State University), Giuseppe Saccomandi (University of Perugia), Harold Berjamin (NUI Galway)
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Structural Mechanics
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7-1 - Steel Structures: Mechanics, Simulation and Testing
Organisers: Jurgen Becque (University of Cambridge), Ahmer Wadee (Imperial College London)
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7-2 - Nonconservative Stability Problems of Structural Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interactions
Organisers: Oleg Kirillov (Northumbria University), Olivier Doare (ENSTA Paristech)
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7-3 - Novel Microstructured and Microarchitectured Materials
Organisers: Michele Brun (University of Cagliari), Vincent Pagneux (Lab. Acoustique Univ. Maine – CNRS)
7-4 - Design and Development of Sustainable and Resilient Structures
Organisers: Jamie Goggins (NUI Galway), Feargal Brennan (University of Strathclyde), Gerard O’Reilly (IUSS Pavia)
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7-5 - Mechanics of Flexible Structures
Organisers: Vikram Pakrashi (University College Dublin), Gordan Jelenić (University of Rijeka)
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Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems
8-2 - Nonlinear Electro- and Magneto-Elasticity and its Applications
Organisers: Weiqui Chen (Zhejiang University), Giuseppe Zurlo (NUI Galway), Stephan Rudykh (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
8-3 - Variational Methods in Modelling for Multi-Physics Problems
Organisers: Anna Pandolfi (Politecnico di Milano), Laurent Stainier (Ecole Centrale de Nantes), Kerstin Weinberg (Universität Siegen)
8-4 - Multiscale Materials Modelling from Atoms to Macroscale
Organisers: Siegfried Schmauder (University of Stuttgart), Somnath Ghosh (Johns Hopkins University), William Curtin (EPFL, Lausanne),
Vera Petrova (University of Stuttgart)
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8-5 - Composites Manufacturing and Joining: New Developments for More Efficient Structures
Organisers: Ronan O'Higgins (University of Limerick), Irene Fernandez Villegas (TU Delft), Ben Woods (University of Bristol)
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