With
an appropriate size of the participants, emphases will be placed
on Integrated Approaches for Materials and Structural Safety in
both civil and mechanical engineering. Contributions are welcome
in the following areas:
• Bridges safety
connected with design and construction.
• Multiscaling aspects of fatigue and creep in both mechanical
and civil engineering.
• Multiscale modeling of physical system, atomistic simulation
models and applications.
• Interaction of system homogeneity at different scales.
• Methods for transferring uniaxial data to multiaxial stress
states needed in design.
• Failure criteria identified with physical damage of the
material and/or structure: local and global view points.
• Dilatational and distortional effects in regions away
and near defects.
• Interatomic potentials for two or more interacting atoms.
• Testing of metallic and non-metallic materials ranging
from room to high temperature.
• Determination of thermal-mechanical and/or chemo-mechanical
coupling effects qualified in terms of the constitutive constants.
• Monitoring, defect detecting and failure assessment methodologies
for engineering structures.
• Numerical and/or analytical methods for determining stress
and strain states.
Topics not covered
above but fall within the general scope of this meeting are also
welcome.
