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In the
November 2000 USACM executive committee meeting, USACM executive
committee (EC), appointed Len
Schwer, who had been a USACM Members-at-Large,
as a part-time USACM coordinator. Working with the EC, Len
has completed the Revised Bylaws, a draft of Congress Memorandum
of Understanding, updated USACM Election Procedures, and
USACM Honors & Awards Procedures. The revised Bylaws
and Procedures will be voted in the USACM Congress to be
held in Dearborn Hyatt, August 1-3, 2001.
Awards
& Honors
The
2001 USACM Awards and Honors recipients are: Ted
Belytschko,
John von Neumann Medal; Wing
Kam Liu, Computational Structural Mechanics
Award; David Gartling,
Computational Fluid Dynamics Award; Charbel
Farhat,
Computational and Applied Sciences Award; Kenneth
E. Jansen, R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator
Award and new USACM Fellows are A.
J. Baker,
Charbel Farhat,
Jacob Fish,
Stein Sture,
and Leszek Demkowicz.
The awards were presented at the 6th U.S. National Congress
on Computational Mechanics.
6th
USACM Congress
The
6th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics was
held August 1-3, 2001 in Dearborn, Michigan. Fifty one Mini-Symposia
were organized, comprising more than 780 papers in 152 technical
sessions. The Congress was an international event, with
participants from more than 30 countries. Two short courses
were offered prior to the Congress:
"Verification
and Validation in Computational Mechanics,"
by Dr. William Oberkampf (Sandia National Laboratories)
"A
Hands-On Introduction to ADAMS,"
by Mechanical Dynamics, Inc.
The
Post-Congress Short Course
consisted of two topics:
"Meshless
Methods,"
by Profs. Wing Kam Liu (Northwestern University), Hirohisa
Noguchi (Keio University), and J.S. Chen (University of
Iowa)
"Design
Optimization,"
by Profs. Zafer Gurdal (VPI) and Noboru Kikuchi (University
of Michigan), Dr. Ren-Jye Yang (Ford Motor Company), and
Uwe Schramm (Altair Engineering, Inc.)
7th
USACM Congress
The
next Congress, the 7th U.S. National Congress on Computational
Mechanics, is planned for the Summer of 2003 in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
Specialty
Committee Reports:
The
Verification and Validation
Committee met at the USACM Congress in Dearborn
to discuss draft sections of the guidelines they are developing.
The Committee expects to become an official ASME Standards
Committee by the end of summer of 2001. The Committee is
planning a Minisymposium at the World Congress in July 2002.
Current information on the Committee's activities, and instructions
on subscribing to its email distribution list, can be found
on the Committee's web page http://www.schwer.net/VnV.
The
Committee
on Meshfree Methods (CMM)
organized a 9-session USACM Minisymposium on Meshfree
Methods. The Meshfree Minisymposium and the first CMM meeting
will take place at the 6th US National Congress on Computational
Mechanics. The CMM is also in the process of developing
a web page to foster the research, development and application
of meshfree methods.
The
Committee
on Integration of Computational Mechanics and Manufacturing
(ICMM) is co-sponsoring a workshop
on composite sheet forming to be held from September 5-7,
2001 in Boston, Massachusetts:
The
Committee
on Material Modeling (CoMm)
sponsored three 3 specialized symposia at the 6th
U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics. In addition,
an Army Research Office sponsored workshop, entitled Integrated
Modeling Of Structural And Material Systems: State of the
Art and Future Directions will be held at the
Ohio State University, Columbus in October 2001. Professors
S. Ghosh and M.A. Zikry will be the co-chairs of this workshop,
that will be co-sponsored by the CoMm
Several
Northwestern University faculty organized a 7 session Symposium
on Micro- and Nano-Systems. To broaden the scope of USACM
activities, USACM is currently looking for individuals who
are willing to lead the new Computational
Nano-Technology Technical Committee.
Should
you have any suggestions, please contact me.
Wing Kam Liu
USACM President
