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By James R. Rice (auth.), Hassan Aref, James W. Phillips (eds.)

The twentieth overseas Congress of Theoretical and utilized Mech- ics, ICTAM 2000, came about August 27 – September 2, 2000, within the c- ference amenities of the Chicago Marriott Downtown on Michigan street in Chicago, Illinois, united states. The Congress was once invited by way of the USA nationwide Academy of Sciences at the advice of its nationwide Comm- tee on Theoretical and utilized Mechanics. A consortium of collage departments and courses acted because the neighborhood hosts. The undersigned served, respectively, as President and Secretary-General of the Congress. during this complaints quantity we've tried to trap the exci- ment of that memorable week. we've got laid out the booklet in order that it, approximately, tracks the occasions in the course of the week of the Congress in a lot the order within which they happened. we now have given addresses and studies in context, even supposing occasionally with gildings to supply extra information than may possibly quite be provided orally. we have now attempted to breed necessities of the hole and shutting ceremonies for the good thing about those that couldn't attend one or the opposite. we've got attempted to collect an enticing quantity that would have lasting worth by way of including an in depth identify index and a briefer key-phrase index, and by means of exercise substantial care within the consistency of the format of the entire manuscripts. The foreign congresses of mechanics are significant occasions of the field—we examine them to the Olympic video games in sports.

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Stukel, President, University of Illinois Tuesday, 29 August 2000 08:00—Mini-Symposia introductory lectures, parallel sessions DD—Damage and failure of composites (Dvorak) DE—Mechanics of foams and cellular materials (Kyriakides) DP—Electromagnetic processing of materials (Walker) DQ—Vehicle system dynamics (Schiehlen) DW—Turbulent mixing (Wunsch) DX—Granular flows (Louge) 09:00—Sectional lectures, parallel sessions ED—Pedro Ponte Castañeda, USA EE—Denis L. Weaire, Ireland EP—Hamda BenHadid, France EQ—Timothy J.

McPhedran, and Nicolae A. Nicorovici; Alexander B. Movchan; Yuri A. Antipov (Australia): Spectral problems and phononic band gaps for periodic structures GA10—Rafael J. Mora and Anthony M. -D. Cheng (Germany): Compressional waves in a onedimensional poroelastic column GA13—Hanxing Zhu and Alan H. Windle ( U K ) : The high strain compression of irregular open-cell foams GB—Boundary layers and waves (Roger H. J. Grimshaw, UK, chair) GB01—Georgiy Korolev ( U K ) : Flow separation and non-uniqueness of the solution of the boundary-layer equations GB03—David H.

Hansen (Denmark): Optimization of the buckling load for composite shells taking thermal effects into account CE5—Guillaume Renaud and Jorn S. Hansen (Canada): Shape optimization of a composite patch repair CE6—John E. Taylor; Martin P. Bendsøe (USA): A mutual energy formulation for the design of continuum structures for generalized objective CF—Multibody dynamics (John J. McPhee, Canada, chair) CF1—Ahmed A. Shabana (USA): Use of the absolute nodal coordinate formulation in modeling flexible multibody systems CF2—Wojciech Blajer (Poland): An improved formulation for multibody systems with possible singularities and redundancy CF3—Peter Eberhard (Germany): Transitions in mixed multibody systems/finite element contact simulation CF4—Jiazhen Hong, Anping Guo, and Yanzhu Liu (China, PRC): A dynamic model with substructures for contact-impact analysis of flexible multibody systems CF5—Florian Wegmann and Friedrich Pfeiffer (Germany): Couplings with neglectable bending stiffness in multibody systems Scientific program xli CF6—Olivier A.

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