Symposia and Topics

Symposia for the 2021 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 2021 Mach Conference.

• Atomic to Continuum Scale Composite Mechanisms: Experiments and Modeling Investigating Multiscale Mechanical and Damage Response of Composites and Their Constituents (Christopher S. Meyer, CCDC Army Research Laboratory/University of Delaware CCM; Bazle Z. Haque, University of Delaware CCM; and Sanjib C. Chowdhury, University of Delaware CCM)
• Characterization and Modeling of Dynamic Fracture of Composites (Kedar Kirane, Stony Brook University)
• Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena (Matt Shaeffer, Johns Hopkins University and YunHo Kim, Johns Hopkins University)
• Mechanics and Manufacturing of Architected Materials (Stavros Gaitanaros, Johns Hopkins University; Jamie Guest, Johns Hopkins University; and Jochen Mueller, Johns Hopkins University)
• Multiscale Mechanics and Machine Learning for Porous and Particulate Materials (Rich Regueiro, University of Colorado Boulder; Kane Bennett, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Dave Fox, U.S. Army Research Laboratory; Nathan Miller, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Steve Sun, Columbia University)
• Particle Based Material Models for Yield, Flow, and Fracture (Thomas O’Connor, Sandia National Lab and Joel Clemmer, Sandia National Lab)
• Processing and Characterization of Hard Ceramics (Rich Haber, Rutgers)
• Slip, Twins, and Voids (Burigede Liu, Caltech; Hao Sheng, Johns Hopkins University; Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Johns Hopkins Unversity; Suraj Ravindran, Caltech; and Xingsheng Sun, Caltech)
• Symposium on the Mechanics of Biological and Biomimetic Soft Materials (Kshitiz Upadhyay, Johns Hopkins University and Amy Dagro, U.S. Army Research Laboratory)

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.