1999 ASME Mechanics and Materials Conference
June 27-30, 1999
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia USA
Nonsmooth mechanics and nonconvex optimization have experienced significant development in the last decade. Many problems arising in finite deformation theory, hysteresis and phase transitions, composite and smart materials, frictional contact mechanics, constrained variational problems, post-bifurcation and stability analysis, optimal control and design of nonlinear systems, ..., require the consideration of nonconvexity and nondifferentiablity for their total potentials and mechanical modelings. The field of nonconvex/nonsmooth mechanics involves a powerful combination of theoretical analysis in mathematical modelling of natural systems, nonlinear optimization and variational principles, numerical methods and algorithms, software development and scientific computing. The application of this field to engineering mechanics has proven to be an exciting and fruitful endeavor. The practical scope and utility of nonsmooth/nonconvex mechanics continues to grow.
The International Symposium on Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics will address the most important recent advances in theoretical mechanics and computational mechanics. It will feature the latest research in constitutive modeling, large deformation theory and stability analysis, primal-dual variational principles, nonlinear optimization and algorithms, numerical methods and software for the solution of engineering problems.
The meeting will bring together the theoretical analysts who build the theory and the scientists who use it. The gathering will provide an excellent opportunity for sharing ideas and problems and increase communication between the applied mathematicians and engineers.
The symposium is dedicated to the memory of Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos, a pioneer researcher who made many fundamental contributions to the nonsmooth/nonconvex mechanics. The symposium will be held jointly with The 1999 ASME Mechanics & Materials Conference, with overlapping sessions planned to encourage interaction among participants.
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David Y. Gao
Department of Mathematics Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA24061, USA Tel: 540-231-2768; Fax: 540-231-5960 e-mail: gao@math.vt.edu |
Ray W. Ogden
Department of Mathematics University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QW, UK Tel: 0141-330-4550; Fax: 0141-330-4111 e-mail: rwo@maths.ac.uk |
Georgios E. Stavroulakis
Institute for Applied Mechanics Tech. Univ. Braunschweig Braunschweig, Germany Tel: ++ 49 531 391 7107 Fax: ++ (49)531-391-5843 e-mail: g.stavroulakis@tu-bs.de |
ON-LINE INFORMATION is available at http://www.math.vt.edu/people/gao/sym99.html
Principal Themes
Abstracts should be sent via e-mail at the address gao@math.vt.edu. It is preferable that the abstract is written in LaTex file. The title (16 point, bold) should be followed by a single space, authors names (12 point, bold), their affiliations (12 point) (complete address should be included so that interested persons can contact the authors by mail, or e-mail), a single space and then the text of the abstract in single space and 12 point. It will be preferable to include line drawings rather than complex or more involved figures in the abstract. THE ABSTRACT MUST NOT EXCEED ONE-PAGE; ELSE ONLY THE FIRST PAGE WILL APPEAR IN THE BOOK OF ABSTRACTS.
Papers submitted for the symposium will be reviewed and published either in a speical issue of Meccanica (a prestigious international journal) or in a special volume in the Kluwer's nonconvex optimization and applications' book series at a later date. Both volumes are dedicated to Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos.