Symposia and Topics

SYMPOSIA

Below is a list of symposia for the 2019 Mach Conference.

• Analytical and numerical methods for upscaling of grain/particle mechanics (Kane Bennett, Duan Zhong Zhang)
• Architected Materials: Design, Fabrication and Characterization (Stavros Gaitanaros, Jamie Guest, Jordan Raney)
• Ceramic in Extreme Environments: Processing and Properties (Rich Haber)
• Experimental and Computation Characterization of Dynamic Behavior of Advanced Ceramics (Ghatu Subhash)
• From Atoms to Armor: multiaxial dynamic impact mechanics of ballistic fibers and composites (Sanjib Chowdhury, John W. Gillespie Jr, Subramani Sockalingam, Tusit Weerasooriya)
• High rate multiscale mechanics of particulate materials and soils (David Fox, Richard Regueiro)
• Impact Matters: KT Ramesh’s 60th Birthday Symposium (Shailendra Joshi, Jamie Kimberley, Leslie Lamberson, Emily Retzlaff, Justin Wilkerson) – INVITATION ONLY
• Machine Learning Techniques for Accelerated and Intelligent Materials Design and Discovery (Jaafar El-Awady, Mohammad H. Rafiei)
• Mechanical Processing for Advanced Lightweight Alloys (Laszlo Kecskes, Nicholas Krywopusk, Timothy Weihs)
• Modeling and Characterization of Fiber-Matrix Interphase (Sanjib Chowdhury, John W. Gillespie Jr, Timothy W. Sirk))
• Multiscale approaches to modeling hierarchical materials (Christopher Meyer, Xiaofan Zhang, Bazle Haque)
• Multiscale Models and Experiments for Energetic Materials (Kasra Momeni)
• Slip, Twins, and Voids – IV (Jeffrey T. Lloyd, Shailendra Joshi, Justin Wilkerson)
• Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modeling of materials (Lori Graham-Brady, Michael Shields, Jaroslaw Knap)

Other topics of interest to the conference:

• Approaches to large-scale Density Functional Theory (Big DFT)
• Atomistics, potential development and molecular dynamics
• Coarse graining and fast multiscale methods
• Dynamics of flaws, fracture, failure, and fragmentation
• Energetic materials
• Image-based computational mechanics
• In situ high rate/high temperature experimentation
• Materials modeling using particle methods
• Mechanics of damage at multiple scales
• Mechanics of semi-crystalline polymers
• Novel techniques for three-dimensional material characterization
• Single fiber and single filament characterization

To view conference agendas from past years (including speakers), click here.