List of MiniSymposia

Following is a list of thematic MiniSymposia proposed or under planning for USNCCM'99. It is current as of the update date of this page. Click here for organizational guidelines. Click here for affiliation and e-mail addresses of organizers.

Organizers: Please submit a one-page summary announcement of your MiniSymposium to Carlos Felippa, carlos@titan.colorado.edu, before September 4, 1998. The announcement will be posted on this Web site, hyperlinked to the title below. This is a sample in PDF . The sample was prepared from this Plain TeX document, which may be downloaded and used as a template. If your MiniSymposium is by invitation only please so indicate.

The mark indicates that a MS announcement, or status report in the case of invitation-only MS, has been posted and hyperlinked.

Recent News. Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis is open until May 15, 1999. See announcement below.

Two MS have been announced on February 1st and are open until May 15, 1999:

Enrico Spacone, Civil Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Boulder: Computational Aspects of Nonlinear Frame Analysis. E-mail: spacone@spot.colorado.edu

Walter Gerstle, Civil Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: Software Issues in Computational Mechanics. E-mail: gerstle@unm.edu

K. Alvin, K. C. Park:   Inverse Problems . This is a plain text version of the announcement.

F. Armero, P. Steinmann, H. Schreyer, K. Willam:   Computational Failure Mechanics. This is a plain text version of the announcement. This is the list of invited contributors to this MS as of September 9, 1998.

G. Beer, G. Hofstetter:   Computational Mechanics of Tunneling in plain text.

P. G. Bergan, S. Govindjee, R. L. Taylor and N.-E. Wiberg:   Computational Dynamics. These are HTML and plain text versions of the announcement.

J. Bielak, T. L. Cruse, G. Maier, R. Pak:   Advances in Boundary Element Methods. By direct invitation only.

S. A. Canann, S. Saigal, S. J. Owen:   Mesh Generation . This is a plain text version of the announcement.

I. Carol, W. Ju, G. Voyadjis:   Progress in Damage Mechanics in plain text.

P. Dawson, L. Anand, R. Haber:   Micromechanical and Multi-Scale Models for Material Processing Applications in plain text.

C. Farhat, C. A. Felippa, T. L. Geers, R. Ohayon:   Computational Acoustics and Fluid-Structure Interaction. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

This is the List of Accepted Abstracts communicated by March 18, 1999. (Final List)

C. A. Felippa, E. Ramm, W. A. Wall:   Advanced Finite Element Methods. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

This is the List of Accepted Abstracts communicated by February 7, 1999. (Final List)

J. Fish:   Computational Advances in Modeling Heterogeneous Materials. By invitation only.

J. Flaherty, M. Shephard:   Adaptive and Parallel Finite Element Methods status as of 11/20. By invitation only.

L. Franca, T. J .R. Hughes:   Stabilized Finite Element Methods. This is a plain text version of the announcement. This is the list of contributions to this MS as of May 15, 1999.

K. Garikipati, R. W. Dutton, N. Aluru:   Computational Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor and Microelectronic Technology. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

R. G. Ghanem:   Computational Methods for Propagation of Uncertainty in Physical Systems. By invitation.

G. Holzapfel:   Computational Biomechanics. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

G. Hulbert, N. Kikuchi:   Applications in the Automotive Industry

N. Kikuchi:   Computational Methods for Optimal Design

A. Knyazev:   Very Large Eigenvalue Problems . This is a HTML version.

This is an updated version in plain text reporting the MS status as of February 7, 1999.

T. Laursen:   Contact-Impact Problems and Nonlinear Mechanics (text version).

W.-K. Liu, T. Belytschko, J.-S. Chen, L.Schwer:   Meshfree Methods. This is a plain text version of the announcement. This is the tentative program as of May 15, 1999.

H. Mang, G. Meschke:   Computational Mechanics of Concrete. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

R. Massabo, B. N. Cox:   Computational Modeling of Composites. This is a plain text version of the announcement. This is the list of invited contributors to this MS as of October 15, 1998.

J. Nagtegaal, D. Fox:   Advances in Commercial Finite Element Software. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

J. T. Oden:   Recent Advances in a Posteriori Error Estimators and Adaptive Error Analysis. Status report as of 11/25/98. By invitation only.

R. Owen, D. Peric, E. Onate:   Computational Plasticity.

K. C. Park, E. L. Wilson:   History of the Finite Element Method. By invitation only.

G. H. Paulino:   Functionally Graded Materials. These are plain text and HTML versions of the announcement.

A. Pifko:   Applications in Engineering Practice

P. Pinsky, K. Cho:   Computational Methods for Multiscale Simulation of Materials. This is a plain text version of the Announcement.

S. Rahman, M. Dunn:   Computational and Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics

J. N. Reddy:   Modeling of Smart Materials and Structures

D. Rixen, P. Le Tallec:   Domain Decomposition Techniques. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

R. Sani:   Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics

M. Saran, M. Kleiber, D. A. Tortorelli:   Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis. Open until May 15, 1999. These is a list of titles and accepted abstracts as of May 8.

B. Schrefler, H. Rajaram:   Coupled Problems in Environmental Engineering. This is a plain text version of the announcement.

S. Sture, B. Jeremic:   Geotechnical Applications. These are plain text and HTML versions of the announcement.

This is the web-posted List of Abstracts .

T. Tezduyar:   Methods for Flow Simulation and Modeling

F.-J. Ulm, Y. Xi:   Computational Durability Mechanics