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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MESOMECHANICS 2008
Multiscaling and Mesomechanics in Relation to Sustainability, Safety and Economy of Materials
and Structures : Advanced and Smart
Scope of the Conference
The recognition at the global scale has called attention to social responsibility on the development of science and technology.
New discoveries in the fields of nanotechnology, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence can perhaps reset the course
for the future with consideration given to national and global priorities. Unless the benefit of science and technology can reach
all sectors of the society and corners of the world, there will be no permanency for stability. Global equalization of benefits
from scientific and technical knowledge may be enhanced by application of cyberinfrastructure to make available wide usage of
comprehensible data and information in terms of people, environment, resource, prevention of disasters and epidemics.
What has been said applies equally well to the fields of material science, mechanics and civil engineering. The advent of
multiscaling has shown that the behavior of the very small to the very large can be addressed on a common ground by appealing to
the volume to surface ratio such that the bulk and local properties may be related. There appears to be a mesoscopic region where
the particulate and the bulk interplay. They lend to new behavior that were overlooked previously. Such a dualism is not uncommon
in many physical problems. The mesoscopic behavior may be loosely regarded as the transition from particle to continuum or vice
versa. This transition is no double size and time scale size sensitive. This inherent transition whether it is man-created or
natural persists in the process of multi scale modeling and deserves attention. Topics associated with the foregoing phenomena
are welcome for presentation in Meso 2008. They can include the following:
- Fracture approaches and theories.
- Fracture simulation and modeling
- Multiscale fracture analysis applications
- New experimental techniques of multiscale fracture studies.
- Practical technologies of failure control and design
- Mesomechanics of reinforced concrete structures.
- Metallic and polymeric materials and structures.
- Smart materials and smart structure
- Innovations of new structural materials
- Nanotechnology in materials
- Repair of defected structures using Mesomechanics concepts.
- Safety issues associated with materials and structures.
- Cracked specimens or structures under cyclic and dynamic loads.
- Advanced composites under mechanical and thermal stresses.
- Effects of environments on structures and materials.
- Interfacial failure of composite materials and structures.
Related topics and those associated with mesomechanics science are also welcome.
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