ASME Mechanics & Materials Conference
June 27-30, 1999
Blacksburg, Virginia

Tentative Program

The objective of the symposium is to provide a forum for researchers to address the recent advances and future direction in understanding, modeling, and predicting material instability accompanied with flow localizations using micromechanics and/or macromechanics approaches. Particular emphasis will be placed on evaluating the flow localization in structural alloys, geomaterials, polymer, composites, etc. where the material instability plays a crucial role. The symposium will cover the theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of material instability to characterize not only the onset of instability, but also the post-localization behavior and the evolution of the resulting heterogeneous pattern of deformation. Problems of the scaling and the manner in which the microstructure determines the size and the magnitude of relevant macroscopic parameters, including the width of the flow localization, and the dependence of the flow stress on higher order strain gradients will be discussed in the symposium. Comprehensive review articles on this subjects are also included. We plan to treat every one equally, allocate 20 minutes for the presentation of each paper, have 5 papers per session of 100-minutes duration, and have no plenary lectures.

One-page abstracts containing author's names, affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address should be mailed to one of the organizers by January 15, 1999 and the preliminary program will be mailed in early March, 1999. No proceedings are planned. Each participant will be required to register; the registration fee is $295 if paid by May 15, and $350 after that date. Graduate students meeting certain mild conditions can register for $125. The registration fee includes the reception on June 27, two refreshment breaks on each day of the conference, banquet on June 29, and the book of abstracts.

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