The following symposia are being organized for USNC/TAM 2018.  To search this list for organizers’ names or keywords, use the search field at the bottom of the page.

Computations

101  “Fractional Differential Equations: Experiments, Analyses, Algorithms and Application,” Shaoqiang Tang, Rui Xiao, Hongguang Sun, Wing Kam Liu, Aaron Packman

102  “Mechanics in Nanomaterial-Enabled Applications,” Yong Zhu, Harold Park, Ting Zhu

103  “Mechanics of Soft Materials and Structures,” Shaoxing Qu, Haibao Lu, Tongqing Lu

104  “Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Mechanics,” Ying Li, George Lykotrafitis, Zhangli Peng

105  “Peridynamics –  Modeling and Applications,” Pablo Seleson, Florin Bobaru, John Foster, Erdogan Madenci

106  “Peridynamics – Theory,” Jianxiang Wang, Qing Zhang

107  “Simulation-based Engineering for Structure Resilience to Disastrous Events,” Dongdong Wang, Cheng-Wei Chi, Xiong Zhang, Jiun-Shyan Chen

109  “Boundary Element Method and Mesh-Reduction Methods,” Xiaowei Gao, Yijun Liu, Zhuojia Fu,Yan Gu

110  “Computational Geomechanics,” WaiChing Sun, Qiushi Chen, Ahmed Elbanna, Craig Foster

111  “Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Computations in Applied Mechanics” Yozo Mikata, Glaucio Paulino

112  “Multiscale and multiophysics modeling and simulation methods,” George Zhu, Zishun Liu

113  “Geomechanics Modeling and Computation,” Jim Hambleton, Giuseppe Buscarnera

114  “Multiphysics and Multiscale Modeling in Mechanics of Materials,” James Lee, James Chen, Xianqiao Wang, Jiaoyan Li

Fluids

201  “Biolocomotion and Biomimics,” Guowei He, Shizhao Wang, Tianshu Liu

203  “Biomechanics in Morphogenesis,” David Bark, Laskhmi Prasad Dasi, Choon Hwai Yap

204  “Bio-inspired Propulsion,” Michael W. Plesniak, Megan Leftwich

205  “Mechanics of cell membranes,” Xinghua Shi, Xin Yi

206  “Patient specific biofluid/solid modeling towards personalized heart valve repair and replacement,” Lakshi Dasi, Michael Sacks

207  “Cell Mechanical Microenvironment,” Feng Xu, Guoyou Huang, Min Lin

209  “Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulent flows,” Chunxiao Xu, Nan Jiang

210  “Drops and Bubbles,” Chau Sun and Hang Ding

211  “Cardiovascular Mechanics,” Zhiyong Li, Hai-Chao Han

212  “Complex Fluids and Soft Matter,” Michael Solomon, Jeffrey Morris, Lynn Walker

213  “Environmental fluid mechanics and extreme multiphase flows,” Qingquan Liu,  Xiaojing Zheng

214  “Granular Material Flows,” Anthony Rosato, Denis Blackmore

215   “Transport Processes in Gas-Particles Flows at High Subsonic and Supersonic Speeds,” Ezequiel Médici, Alexandre Martin

216  “Hypersonic Transition,” Xuesong Wu, Jisheng Luo

217  “Interfacial and Nonlinear Flows,” Vivek Sharma, Paulo Arratia

219  “Ocean Hydrodynamics,” Jifu Zhou, Hua Liu, Zhan Wang

220  “Stratification Effects in Environmental Flows: Observations, Theory, and Simulations,” Yuli Chashechkin, Harindra Fernando

221  “Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles in Drying Liquid: Beyond ‘Coffee-Ring’,” Xin Yong, Hassan Masoud

Solids

301  “Dynamics of Continuous Media,” Li-Qun Chen, Xiao-Dong Yang

302  “Industrial Applications of Dynamics,” Shao-Pu Yang, Gui-Lin Wen, Hu Ding

303  “Dynamics of Cyclically Symmetric Systems,” Kiran D’Souza, Christopher Cooley

304  “Dynamics of Multibody Systems,” Carmine Pappalardo, Qiang Tian, Mohil Patel

305  “New developments and interdisciplinary aspects of dynamics,” Qingyun Wang, Lifeng Wang, Zhongkui Sun

306  “Dynamics and control of engineered systems,” Qian Ding, Zhike Peng, Lin Wang

307  “Multiscale Mechanics of Bioinspired and Biological Materials,” Nima Rahbar, Sina Youssefian

308  “New Directions in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology,” Luis Dorfmann, Huajian Gao, Ming Guo, Ellen Kuhl

309  “Multiscale mechanics of cell and tissue,” Baohua Ji, Bin Chen

310  “Mechanics of cytoskeleton,” Yuan Lin, Jin Qian

311  “Translational biomechanics for medical device and rehabilitation assistive technology,” Yubo Fan, Lizhen Wang

312  “Growth and Remodeling of Living Matter,” Michael Sacks, Reza Avaz,  Joao Soares

313  “Mechanics in Biology: Animals,” Sunny Jung, Chen Li

314  “Behavior and Mechanics of Shape Memory Alloy Materials and Structures,” Chad Landis, Stelios Kyriakides

315  “Mechanics and Applications of Piezoelectric Devices and Structures,” Ji Wang, Cunfa Gao, Zhenhua Qian, Chaofeng Wu

316  “Experiment for the Convergence of Nano-Bio-Mechanics,” Horacio Espinosa, K. Ravi-Chandar

317  “Nano- and Micro-Mechanics,” Wanlin Guo, Jiangyu Li, Ting Zhu, Qunyang Li, Tienchong Chang

318  “Mechanics of multifunctional 2D materials and 2D-based nanostructures,” Ellad Tadmor, Harold Park

319  “Mechanics Behavior of 2D Materials – Graphene and Beyond,” Rui Huang, Kenneth Liechti

320  “Atomistic to continuum modeling and characterization of deformation at interfaces,” Chen Shaohua, Peng Zhilong

321  “Mechanics in Nano- and Micro-scale Material Design: Synthesis, Experiments, Theory and Simulation,” Xiaoding Wei, Minqiang Jiang

322  “Constitutive modeling of amorphous and particulate systems,” David Henann, Ken Kamrin, Paul Umbanhowar

323  “Mechanics and Physics of Multi-scale Porous Media,” Ange-Therese Akono, Gianluca Cusatis, Ahmed Elbanna, Ronaldo I. Borja, Zdeněk P Bažant

324  “Symposium 28: Mechanics of Irradiated Structural Materials,” Huiling Duan, Haidong Fan, Shurong Ding, Jian Wang, Yue Fan

325  “A Multi-scale Perspective of Dislocation Dynamics Models,” Zhanli Liu, Zhuo Zhuang, Zhenhuan Li, Minsheng Huang

326  “Advances in Mechanics of Materials and Structures–in honor of Prof. Romesh C. Batra’s 70th Birthday,” Zhigang Wei, Matthew Lear, Senthil Val, Jiashi Yang, Rakesh Kapania

327  “Bifurcation and Continuation Methods for Mechanics of Materials and Structures,” Ryan Elliot, Timothy Healey

328  “Contract, friction, wear and adhesion,” Liao-Liang Ke, Han Jiang

329  “Mechanics of Adhesion,” Kevin Turner, Kenneth Liechti, Ken Shull

330  “Cyclical deformation and fatigue behavior of engineering materials,” Han Jiang, Qingyuan Wang, Guozheng Kang, Yongjie Liu

331  “Electro-chemo-mechanics of energy materials,” Siva Nadimpalli, Claudio Di Leo, Vijay Sethuraman, Kejie Zhao

332  “Mechanics of electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies,” Vitaliy Yurkiv, Reza Shahbazian-Yassar

333  “Modeling and Design of Materials with Coupled Physics,” Stephan Rudykh, Sergey Kuznetsov

334  “Fracture and Lifetime of Materials – in honor of Prof. Alexander Chudnovsky’s 80th Birthday,” Eduard Karpov, Sheng-Wei Chi, Farhad Ansari, Craig Foster, Mustafa Mahamid, Didem Ozevin, Mohsen A. Issa,

335  “Friction, Fracture, and Damage,” Ahmed Elbanna, Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar

336  “Materials Instability: Quantification, Constitutive Response, and Prediction,” Kavan Hazeli, Konstantinos Baxevanakis

337  “Mechanical Design on Multiscale Architectured Solids,” Yujie Wei, Xiaolei Wu

338  “Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials – Soft Structures and Composites,” Stephan Rudykh, Oscar Lopez-Pamies

339  “Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials – Instability and Manufacturing of Soft Materials,” Lihua Jin, Xin Yong, Sung Hoon Kang

340  “Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials – Soft Active Materials,” Shawn Chester, Kevin Long, Shengqiang Cai, Sung Hoon Kang

341  “Mechanics of Heterogeneous Soft Materials on Flexible Structures,” Mazen Diab, Ruike Zhao

342  “Mechanics of Flexible/Stretchable Electronics,” Xue Feng, Chaofeng Lu

343  “Mechanics of Advanced Manufacturing Processes: Cutting, Forming and Tribology,” Dinakar Sagapuram, Koushik Visanathan, Srinivasan Chandrasekar

344  “Mechanics of many-particle systems under environmental excitations,” Huiming Yin, Tungyang Chen, Yang Gao, Anthony Rosato

345  “Mechanics of natural biomaterials: from understanding to application,” Haimin Yao, Ling Li

346  “Modeling and characterization of interfaces in materials,” Brandon Runnels, Charles Wojnar, Vinamra Agrawal

347  “Mechanics of Composite Materials,” Zhong Zhang, Jun Liang, Yan Li, Ning Hu

348  “Modeling Methods for Complex Systems with Multiple Scales,”  Sheldon Wang, Albert Luo

349  “Modern aspects of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, including the legacy of G. A. Maugin,” Ivan Christov, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

350  “Multiscale and multifield coupled mechanical behavior of the solid materials with phase transition and its theoretical characterization,” Guozheng Kang, Qingping Sun, Qianhua Kan, Wenping Wu

351  “Nonlinear Mechanics of Polymer network: elasticity, inelasticity, and temporal evolution,” Franck Vernerey, Rong Long

352  “Recent Advances in Mechanical Metamaterials,” Eduard Karpov, Simon Guest, Ahmad Rafsanjani Abbasi

353  “Recent Advances in the Mechanics of Generalized Continua,” Elena Atroshchenko, Sergey Kuznetsov

354  “Phononics and Metamaterials: Multiphysics or coupled phenomena in PnC and metamaterials,” Stephan Rudykh, Nicholas Fang

355  “Phononics and Metamaterials: Nonlinear, tunable, and adadptive PnC and metamaterials (buckling induced, material induced, large deformation, soft materials, etc.),” Kathryn Matlack, Ankit Srivastava, Stephan Rudykh, Stefano Gonella

356  “Phononics and Metamaterials: Topology optimization, complex microstructure, fabrication, design, and industrial applications of acoustic and mechanical metamaterials,” Jie Yin, Yaning Li, Lifeng Wang

357  “Phononics and Metamaterials: Dynamic homogenization, emerging themes in heterogeneity and disorder,” Ankit Srivastava, Ahmed Elbanna, Gal Shmuel, Celia Reina, William Parnell

358  “Phononics and Metamaterials: Non-reciprocal and topological mechanical metamaterials ,” Yue-Sheng Wang, Weiqiu Chen, Gengkai Hu, Chuanzeng Zhang, Guoliang Huang

359  “Advances in Phase Field Modeling of Microstructures,” Yong Ni, Jie Wang

360 “Mechanics of Mineralized Biological and Bioinspired Materials,” Iwona Jasiuk, Joanna McKittrick

361  “Multiscale Brain Mechanics: From Growth to Injury,” Christian Franck, Reuben Kraft, Ellen Kuhl

362  “Failure and Damage in Soft Materials: From Instabilies to Cracking,” Yunwei Mao, Brandon Talamini, Shenghua Wu

363  “Mechanics for Manufacturing of Composite Structure,” Hui Cheng, Yingjie Xu

364  “Solid Mechanics of Additively Manufactured Materials,” Allison Beese, Gregory Wagner, Jian Cao

365  “Instability in Solids and Structures“, Stelios Kyriakides, Ryan Elliott