Symposia and Topics

Symposia for the 2020 Mach Conference

The Mach conference program is largely comprised of symposia that are organized around specific topics of interest, each of which contains one or more sessions.

SYMPOSIA

Below is a list of symposia for the 2020 Mach Conference.

• Adiabatic Shear Localization in High-Performance Material Systems (Laszlo Kecskes, Qiuming Wei, Fenghua Zhou)
• Atomic to Continuum Scale Composite Mechanisms: Experiments and Modeling Investigating Multiscale Mechanical and Damage Response of Composites and Their Constituents (Christopher Meyer, Bazle Haque, Sanjib Chowdhury)
• Computational and Experimental Analysis of the Behavior in Advanced Alloys under High Strain-Rate Deformation (Liming Xiong, Timothy Germann, Cyril Williams)
• Data Driven Insights to Material Behavior and Design (David Elbert, Shawn Coleman, Brian Schuster)
• Experimental and Computational Investigations on Fracture and Fragmentation of Ceramics (Ghatu Subash)
• High-rate Loading of Biological Materials (Amy Dagro, Reuben Kraft)
• High Rate Multiscale Mechanics of Particulate Materials and Soils (Richard Regueiro, David Fox)
• Imaging of Complex Dynamic Behavior of Materials (Jonathan Lind, David Bober)
• Mesoscale Damage, Plasticity, and Fracture (David Walters, Nitin Daphalapurkar)
• Multiscale Models and Experiments for Energetic Materials (Kasra Momeni)
• Novel Techniques for Dislocation Structure Characterization and Modeling (Sean Agnew)
• Optimized Formulations for Plastic Bonded Explosives: Theory and Experiment (Mark Cawkwell, Kyle Ramos, DJ Luscher, Cindy Bolme, Ken Windler)
• Processing and Characterization of Ceramics Used in Extreme Conditions (Rich Haber)
• Slip, Twins, and Voids-V (Shailendra Joshi, Justin Wilkerson, Jeffrey Lloyd)
• Uncertainty Quantification, Stochastic Modeling and Machine Learning for Materials (Jarek Knap, Lori Graham-Brady, Michael Shields)

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.