Conference topics

Solid, fluid, structural and interface mechanics:

• adaptive, functional, smart materials and nanomaterials
• mechanics of composite, multiphase and porous materials
• interphase and contact mechanics
• dynamics of multibody and multiflows systems
• evolution of microstructure: turbulence, rheology, plasticity, creep and damage
• mechanics of phase-change undergoing continua
• mechanics of plates, shells and multipolar continua
• nonstationary response of fluid and solid bodies under extreme actions
• nonlinear dynamics, chaos
• experimental mechanics

Computational approaches in mechanics:

• artificial intelligence methods
• computational intelligence
• sensitivity and reliability analysis
• inverse problems and optimization
• advanced discretization methods
• numerical analysis of initial and boundary value problems
• parallel computing
• soft computing

Interdisciplinary issues in mechanics:

• fluid-structure interaction
• biomechanics
• coupled-field problems, energy harvesting
• mechatronics, MEMS, NEMS
• deformation and flow control
• multiscale problems and nanomechanics