Plenary lecturers

B. Charlès (France) Monday 17th May     9h05-9h50     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: P. Ladevèze

Bernard Charlès - President and CEO - Dassault Systèmes Bernard Charlès was appointed President of Dassault Systèmes on September 1, 1995. He was named President and CEO on May 28, 2002. Mr. Charlès started his career at DS in 1983, leading teams to develop new technologies. In 1986, he founded a dedicated Strategy and Research department, and in 1988 was named President of Research and Development. Under his leadership, Dassault Systèmes launched the CATIA-CADAM V4, introducing an innovative architecture as well as a new momentum to meet customers needs. Since becoming President, Mr. Charlès has driven the key steps in DS's evolution including the development of the Version 5 architecture and the introduction of the V6 online collaborative platform; the development of a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) portfolio with new brands such as DELMIA, ENOVIA and SIMULIA, reinforcing CATIA solutions; and a broader access to 3D (3D for All), with the acquisition of SolidWorks and the launch of the 3DVIA brand. The solutions and services developed by Dassault Systèmes today give shape to Mr. Charlès' vision of leveraging the power of 3D to help companies from all industries develop, simulate, and optimize the complete lifecycle of their products, in order to help preserve the environment, to innovate and gain competitiveness. The Dassault Systèmes solutions also address Research and Education. Dassault Systèmes is currently the first software editor in France and ranked third in Europe. In 2007, Bernard Charlès received the insignia of the Chevalier de la légion d'honneur and was appointed member of the Académie des Technologies in 2009. He graduated with honors as a mechanical engineer specialized in automation and computer science engineering from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, France where he still belongs to the scientific core of professors. Lecture : Virtual world for sustainable innovation





C. Farhat (USA) Friday 21th May     12h30-13h15     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: M. Papadrakakis

Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, the Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at Stanford University. He is designated by the Institute for Science Information as a highly cited researcher in engineering. He has received the AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, the USACM John von Neumann Medal, the IEEE Computer Society Gordon Bell and Sidney Fernbach Awards, the IACM Computational Mechanics Award, and the Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation Award. He is a Fellow of the ASME, the IACM, the World Innovation Foundation, the USACM, and the AIAA. He currently serves on the United States Bureau of Industry and Security's Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC) at the United States Department of Commerce, and on the technical assessment boards of several national research councils and foundations. His research interests include high-speed fluid-structure interaction, aeroacoustics, underwater acoustic scattering, micro aerial vehicles, signal processing, multi-scale modeling and simulation, high-performance computing, and the development of reduced-order modeling methods that have the potential to embed computational engineering into design and control operations. Lecture : Nonlinear Model Reduction via Petrov-Galerkin Projection and Compressive Tensor-Product Approximation Abstract of the lecture





M. Geers (Nederlands) Wednesday 19th May     8h30-9h15     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair:

Marc Geers is full professor in Mechanics of Materials at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands since 2000. His research interests are in the field of micromechanics, multi-scale mechanics, damage mechanics and mechanics in miniaturization. His research group aims to understand, describe, predict and optimise the mechanical response of engineering materials as a function of their underlying microstructure, processing and evolution, through focused and coordinated experimental, theoretical and computational efforts at a wide range of length scales. Particular research topics are: strain gradient crystal and dislocation plasticity, ductile damage, interface mechanics, computational homogenization and microstructural patterning. He published more than 100 journal papers and an equal amount of contributions in proceedings or books. He coordinates the cluster Multi-scale fundamentals of Materials in the Materials Innovation Institute, he is the Scientific Director of the Dutch Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics and he chairs Euromech's Mechanics of Materials committee. Lecture : Computational mechanics of material interfaces: trends & challenges Abstract of the lecture





P. Ladevèze (France) Thursday 20th May     8h30-9h15     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: E. Onate

Pierre Ladevèze is a professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, France, and holds the EADS Foundation chair on "Advanced Computational Structural Mechanics". He heads a research group of over fifty researchers. His work focuses primarily on the validation and verification of models, on mechanics-based computational strategies for nonlinear problems and on the modeling and analysis of composite materials and structures. Pierre Ladevèze has co-authored over 180 papers published in international scientific journals and from 2000,has presented 43 keynotes and plenary lectures. Lecture : Virtual Structural Testing for Composites Today and Tomorrow Abstract of the lecture





S. Reese (Germany) Tuesday 18th May     8h30-9h15     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: T. Hughes

Since 2009, Stefanie Reese is professor for applied mechanics at the RWTH Aachen (Germany). Before, she held professorships at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany). She did postdoctoral research in Hannover, Darmstadt, Berkeley (USA) and Capetown (South Africa). Her main research fields are material modelling of innovative materials as shape memory alloys, fibre-reinforced polymers and biomaterials as well as efficient and robust finite element technologies. One goal of her research is always to apply the new methods to interesting applications e.g. in the field of medical technology, biomechanics and production technology. Stefanie has won several prizes for academic achievements from scientific academies and is member of the senate of the German Science Foundation, a high-ranking committee in German science. She further serves in different boards and commissions in the international mechanics community. Lecture : Challenges of computational modelling in production and medical technology Abstract of the lecture

Semi-Plenary lecturers

A. Araujo (Portugal) Tuesday 18th May     14h30-15h00     Room 241 Chair: M. Pietrzyk

Lecture : Hybrid Active-Passive Laminated Structures: Modeling, Optimization and Identification Abstract of the lecture





F. Auricchio (Italy) Tuesday 18th May     14h30-15h00     Room 251 Chair: E. Ramm

After a Civil Engineering BA at the University of Napoli (1989), a M.Sc. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1995), both from University of California at Berkeley, since 2001 Ferdinando Auricchio is Professor of Mechanics of Solids at University of Pavia (Italy), Professor at the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk and Research Associate at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies (IMATI-CNR). He is currently Member of the General Assembly and Managing Board of ECCOMAS, Editorial Board Member for the Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics, Advisory Board Member for IJNME. His current research topics are: material constitutive modeling (in particular for shape-memory alloys), biomechanics (with a special interest in cardiovascular problems), mixed finite elements, isogeometric analysis, SPH, X-FEMs. He is author of more than 80 publications on international journals and of more than 50 invited presentations at national and international conferences. He has also been consultant for important international companies (Saes Getters, Nokia, Fiat, MSC Marc, LS-Dyna). He is co-inventor of 2 European granted patents and co-founder of a biomedical spin-off company. Lecture : Shape-memory alloys: effective 3D modeling, computational aspects and biomedical device analysis Abstract of the lecture





T. Belytschko (USA)            Chair:

Professor Ted Belytschko, Walter P. Murphy and McCormick Institute Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston. Ted Belytschko's main interests are in the development of computational methods for engineering problems: meshfree methods, techniques for arbitrary discontinuities (XFEM) and multiscale coupling methods, spanning the scales from quantum to continuum. He also pioneered matrix-free explicit finite element methods which are widely used in crach analysis and and process and prototype simulation. He has received the Timoshenko Medal from ASME, the Gauss-Newton Medal from the IACM, the von Neumann Medal of USACM, the von Karman medal from ASCE, among others. He has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Liege, the Ecole Centrale-Paris and the University of Lyons. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lecture : On Hierarchical and Semiconcurrent Methods for Failure Analysis

We regret to announce that Prof. Belytschko will not be able to attend ECCM 2010. This semi-plenary lecture is thus cancelled.



K.U. Bletzinger (Germany) Thursday 20th May     14h00-14h30     Room 252B Chair: A. Nouy

Prof. Kai-Uwe Bletzinger is professor of structural analysis at the Technische Universität München since 1999. He studied Civil Engineering at the universities of Stuttgart, Germany, and Calgary, Canada. His scientific career was essentially affected by working for the German collaborative research centre "Natural structures - light weight structures in architecture and nature" as a young research fellow at the chair of Prof. Ekkehard Ramm when he founded his interests in optimal shapes of shells and membranes and the development of numerical methods to generate those. The topic has been refined since then towards subjects like parameter free shape design of shells, form finding of membranes, minimal surfaces, patterning analysis of anisotropic materials, and generalizations of those like mesh regularization schemes. It still is one of his main lines of his actual fields of research besides computational mechanics in general, isogeometric shell analysis, control of form adaptive structures and fluid structure interaction of light weight structures in particular. Prof. Bletzinger serves in various positions for the community of computational mechanics. He is principal investigator of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Technische Universität München and one of the responsible coordinators of the international Master's program on Computational Mechanics at his university. Lecture : Parameter free shape design of shell and membrane structures: Effective and efficient solution techniques for very large design problems Abstract of the lecture





R. de Borst (the Netherlands) Wednesday 19th May     14h00-14h30     Room 241 Chair: T. Sadowski

René de Borst is currently Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology, one of the two Distinguished University Professors at this university, and Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, and the Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics. He is a Member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the IACM, and recipient of the Composite Structures Award, the IACM Computational Mechanics Award, the Max-Planck Research Award, and the Spinoza Prize. His research interest are computational inelasticity, failure mechanics, evolving discontinuities, multi-physics and multi-scale phenomena. Lecture : Computational Multi-scale Mechanics and Evolving Discontinuities Abstract of the lecture





T. Burczynski (Poland) Wednesday 19th May     14h00-14h30     Room 251 Chair: M. Bishoff

Tadeusz Burczynski graduated from the Silesian University of Technology (SUT) to MEng. In 1980 he obtained the degree of Dr.Eng. and in 1990 the one of Dr.Eng.habil., both from SUT. In 1993 he was appointed to Full Professor and Head of the Department for Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics of SUT. In 2008 he obtained a second academic appointment -the one to Head of the Institute of Computer Modelling of Cracow University of Technology. From 1999 to 2009 he was President of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics (PACM). He has held Visiting Professorships at several renowned foreign universities in USA and Europe. He obtained several prestigious national awards and prizes. In 2007, he was elected to Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS). Presently, he is Vice-President of the Committee of Mechanics, the Section of Optimization and Control, and the Section of Computational Science, all of PAS. He is author or co-author of more than 500 published works including 14 books and 125 papers published in refereed international journals. Recently his research interest is connected with development and application of computational intelligent systems based on biologically-inspired techniques in computational mechanics and bioinformatics and a computational methodology for multi-scale modelling and optimization and identification of materials and its computer implementation. Lecture : Optimization and identification in multiscale modelling Abstract of the lecture





P. Chinesta (France) Wednesday 19th May     14h30-15h00     Room Maillot Chair: G. Schueller

Francisco Chinesta, born in 1966 in Valencia (Spain), is currently Professor of Computational Mechanics at the Ecole Centrale of Nantes (France) and titular of the EADS Corporate Foundation International Chair on Advanced Modeling of Composites Manufacturing Processes, implying multi-scale and multi-physics approaches of solid and complex fluids. His main research contribution concerns the proposal and development of efficient model reduction strategies based on the proper orthogonal decomposition and more particularly the development of separated representations based strategies making possible the solution of models suffering the so called "curse of dimensionality" . Lecture : Routes to extreme simulations based on model reduction any models in computational mechanics remain today intractable despite its apparent simplicity. Some examples are models involving non-separable time scales ranging in a large interval, models involving strongly non-linear couplings, real time simulations of complex thermomechanical systems, non-linear homogenization or the homogenization of linear but rich microstructures, and of course all problems needing for the many solutions, as the ones encountered in optimization of inverse identification. In this presentation we propose reformulate each one of these models in an appropriate high dimensional space and then solve it by applying the proper generalized decomposition -PGD-, natural extension for multidimensional spaces of the radial approximation proposed by P. Ladeveze many years ago. The use of the PGD allows circumventing the redoubtable curse of dimensionality characteristic of such models defined in multidimensional spaces. This procedure could be at the origin of a real change of paradigm in computational mechanics. It allows solving models never until now solved, and speeding up the solution of other models in several orders of magnitude.





D.  Clouteau (France) Wednesday 19th May     14h30-15h00     Room 251 Chair: M. Bishoff

Didier Clouteau is professor at Ecole Centrale Paris. He leads the research group on wave propagation in random media of the Soil-Structure-Material Lab (CNRS UMR 8579) and chairs the department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. After his PhD at Ecole Centrale Paris (1990) on the seismic response of arch dams, he entered the CNRS as a researcher untill 2003 when he became professor at ECP. His research interest concentrates on numerical modeling in structural dynamics and wave propagation in heterogeneous and random media. The main applications of his research are in the fields of earthquake engineering and vibrations induced by transport means. His main research contributions are in BEM, FEM-BEM coupling, incertainties modeling and propagation. D. Clouteau is also associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique. Lecture : Numerical modeling of multiple scattering of elastic waves





A. Combescure (France) Wednesday 19th May     14h00-14h30     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: R. Ohayon

Presentely INSA Lyon Professor Head of LaMCoS Lab (70 staff 75 PHd students) président of Carnot institute I@L (500 Researchers 500 PHD's 54ME Total annual budget) president of CSMA association Research expertise : Instabilities of structures. The main contribution was to propose a new finite element which enables to compute imperfect shells using the perfect geometry and including initial imperfection as an initial displacement field. This idea is extremely efficient for parametric analysis of axisymetric shells which non axisymetric initial imperfections. Fracture mechanics. The most recent research results are about the developpement of X-FEM simulation of dynamic crack propagation and the comparison with new original experiments which show crack rotation arrest and restart. The methodology is based on numerical scheme which carefully ensures energy conservation. Transient dynamics: The main results are about the space time mortar method which enable to couple sub domains with incompatible space and time scales and different time integration schemes. The most recent research results gives a general method in which zero energy dissipation at interface is embedded whatever the time integrator is. SPH method: a new Mindlin elastoplastic fracturing SPH shell was developed and coupled with fluid SPH method.. Original experiments were also published. The main personal characteristics are the following: 20 years in industrial research. Since 1995 enters the academic world. Lecture : When X-FEM ideas join the gap between experiments measures and numerical simulations: 3D fatigue crack propagation Abstract of the lecture





A. Corigliano (Italy) Thursday 20th May     14h30-15h00     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: N. Moës

Alberto Corigliano is full professor of "Scienza delle Costruzioni" (Structural Mechanics) at the Department of Structural Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since June 2006 is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids. In 2006 he won the Bruno Finzi price for Rational Mechanics given by the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. During his research activity, Alberto Corigliano covered a wide range of subjects in the fields of structural and materials mechanics, with particular reference to theoretical and computational problems relevant to non-linear material responses. His present main research interests concern: quasi-brittle and ductile fracture mechanics; composite damage and delamination; Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS). Lecture : Modelling of spontaneous Adhesion phenomena in Microsystems Abstract of the lecture





W. A. Curtin (USA) Tuesday 18th May     14h30-15h00     Room 342A Chair: E. Stein

Dr. William Curtin received a combined 4 yr. ScB/ScM degree in Physics from Brown University in 1981 and a PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1986, working on the optical properties of metal nanoparticles and on statistical mechanics theories of freezing. Dr. Curtin then joined the Applied Physics Group at the British Petroleum Research Laboratories (formerly SOHIO) in Cleveland, OH, where he worked on hydrogen storage in amorphous metal alloys, the statistical mechanics of crystal/melt interfaces, and the mechanics of ceramic and composites. In 1993, he joined the faculty at Virginia Tech with a joint appointment in Materials Science & Engineering and Engineering Science & Mechanics. In 1998, Professor Curtin returned to Brown University as a faculty member in the Solid Mechanics group of the Division of Engineering and was appointed the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor in 2006. A current overall theme of Professor Curtin's research is multiscale modeling of the mechanical behavior of materials, with specific applications to atomistic/continuum models of plasticity and fracture in metals, dynamic strain aging and strengthening in lightweight metal alloys, and fiber composites including carbon-nanotube-based ceramic composites. Professor Curtin is Director of the Center for Advanced Materials Research at Brown and Director of the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Brown. He was appointed as a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005-06 to pursue research on Multiscale Modeling, and has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal papers. Lecture : Origin of Plasticity Length-Scale Effects in Fracture and Deformation Abstract of the lecture





M. Doblare (Spain) Wednesday 19th May     14h00-14h30     Room 342A Chair: A. Klawon

Manuel Doblare was born in Cordoba (Spain) in July, 1956. He got the degree of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Seville in 1978 and the PhD at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1981. In 1984, he was appointed as full professor at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where he still teaches. He was visiting scholar at the Universities of Southampton and New York and visiting professor at Stanford University. In different periods, he was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the Aragon Institute of Engineering Research (I3A) all at the University of Zaragoza. He is currently the Scientific Director of the Spanish Networking Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine. Dr. Doblare was distinguished with the 2008 Aragon Prize to Excellence in Research, a Honoris Causa Doctorate by the University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and several other recognitions. He is member of different national and international scientific associations, editor of several journals and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural Sciences of Zaragoza. Dr. Doblare's research interests are in computational solid mechanics with applications to structural integrity, biomechanics and mechanobiology. Lecture : Constitutive models for soft tissue considering length and directional statistics of the fiber bundles Abstract of the lecture





F. Feyel (France) Friday 21th May     11h50-12h20     Room 251 Chair: P. Cartraud

F. Feyel is currently working at Onera (a french aerospace lab) in the field of solid and structure computational mechanics. After his PhD at the School of Mines (Paris) in 1998, followed by his authorization to lead research in 2006, F. Feyel now leads a team devoted to computational mechanics. His main subjects of interest ly around high performance computing, multiscale strategies (he first proposed the name FE2 to describe these embedded multiscale finite element methodologies), non-linear models for damage evolution and crack propagation, and objetc oriented finite element softwares. F. Feyel is also associate professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. Lecture : Towards coupling damage evolution and crack propagation. Modeling of damage and crack propagation is of utmost importance. However, both of them raise major computational issues. Furthermore their coupling is still an open question. In this talk both crack propagation and damage problems are first adressed separatly, with associated solution strategies. Crack propagation can now be captured accurately due to recent advances in remeshing techniques, even in complex cases when when the topology of the crack changes during the propagation. One of the advantages of this is that it can be carried out by standard finite element software. Damage evolution is also described in a robust manner by non-local models including locking control and mesh adaptativity. The talk will end by the presentation of preliminary results about coupling damage evolution and crack propagation.





J. Fish (USA) Wednesday 19th May     14h30-15h00     Room 241 Chair: T. Sadowski

Over the past 25 years (in both industry and academia) Dr. Fish has been in the forefront of multiscale computational science and engineering, an emerging discipline that bridges the gap between modeling, simulation and design of products based on multiscale principles. He has an accomplished track record of technology transfer to industry. His multiscale methodologies have been employed by industry for manufacturing processes of GE90 fan blades; design of turbo-engines for Allison Engines, GE and Rolls-Royce; simulation of aerospace structural components for Lockheed-Martin and Sikorski; optimization of energy absorption mechanism for lightweight composite cars manufactured by Ford, GM and Chrysler, analysis of concrete targets subjected to impact loading by high speed projectiles and numerous nanotechnology applications including nanodevices and nanocomposites sponsored by Northrop-Grumman, Sandia National Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory and Department of Energy. Lecture : Computational Continua Abstract of the lecture





R. Ghanem (USA) Wednesday 19th May     14h00-14h30     Room Maillot Chair: G. Schueller

Roger Ghanem is a Professor in the Viterbi Schoold of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, Roger Ghanem had served on the faculty of the schools of engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and at Johns Hopkins University. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering from Rice University. Dr. Ghanem is a pioneer in the field of uncertainty quantification, and stochastic computational mechanics. He has developed the polynomial chaos, and more generally the functional analytic approach to stochastic mechanics as a relevant tool in computational science and engineering. He has worked for the past twenty years to clarify scientific, mathematical and algorithmic foundations for the application of these methods across science and engineering. Dr. Ghanem has co-authored over 250 technical technical articles. Ghanem's recent research interests deal with issues of uncertainty in complex systems requiring multiscale and multi-model approaches. Lecture : Verification and Validation: A psycho-analysis of Predictions Abstract of the lecture





A.-M. Habraken (Belgium) Tuesday 18th May     14h00-14h30     Room 241 Chair: M. Pietrzyk

HABRAKEN Anne-Marie University of Liège, ArGEnCO Department, Head of MS²F sector, FNRS researches director Chemin des Chevreuils, 1 4000 Liège 1 (Sart-Tilman) Phone +0032 (0)4 3669430 Fax +0032 (0)4 3669192 E-mail: anne.habraken@ULg.ac.be Area of interest MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR (steel, Ti, Al, ... metals + coating) Development and identification of constitutive thermo-mechanical-metallurgical laws: macroscopic phenomenological laws, micro-macro approach, crystal plasticity models, Prediction of damage and rupture during forming or by fatigue, Modelling forming processes by FEM: deep drawing, continuous casting, incremental forming, vertical spincasting. Development of FE non linear solid Lagamine code, experimental work at macro scale, collaborations with other groups for microscopic measurements. Lecture : Multiscale approach to describe the mechanical behaviour of Ti6Al4V alloys Abstract of the lecture





I. Harari (Israel) Wednesday 19th May     14h30-15h00     Room 252B Chair: S. Prudhomme

Dr. Isaac Harari is a Professor of Engineering at Tel Aviv University, where he also served as Chairman of the Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Systems. His research interests cover many aspects of computational mechanics, particularly in areas of wave propagation and fluid-solid interaction. Recent work includes spatial stabilization of semidiscrete formulations for transient analysis, discontinuous multiscale methods, structural reduction techniques for coupled problems, weak enforcement of Dirichlet constraints, and novel variational formulations for pure advective transport and inverse problems. Prof. Harari is a Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He is a founder and past president of the Israel Association for Computational Methods in Mechanics. Prof. Harari is an Associate Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Lecture : Enforcing Embedded Interface and Boundary Conditions by Nitsche's Method Abstract of the lecture





G. Hofstetter (Austria) Tuesday 18th May     14h00-14h30     Room 251 Chair: E. Ramm

Günter Hofstetter is Professor for Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis and Head of the Institute for Basic Sciences in Civil Engineering at the University of Innsbruck. His Scientific Activities focus on theoretical and applied research in the field of Computational Mechanics. The research activities are reflected in 44 contributions to international scientific journals, 95 contributions to proceedings and books and the authorship of the books: G. Hofstetter and H. A. Mang, Computational Mechanics of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Vieweg, 1995, 366 pages, and H. A. Mang and G. Hofstetter, Festigkeitslehre, Springer Verlag, 2000 (1. ed), 2004 (2. ed), 2008 (3. ed), 485 pages. He is Member of the Editorial Board of the Journals Engineering Structures, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences and The Open Numerical Methods Journal. Lecture : Numerical Modelling and Finite Element Analysis of Geotechnical Problems Involving Partially Saturated Soils Abstract of the lecture





T. Hughes (USA) Tuesday 18th May     14h00-14h30     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: B. Schrefler

Thomas J.R. Hughes is one of the most widely cited authors in Computational Mechanics. He has been awarded the Huber Prize and von Karman Medal from ASCE, the Melville, Worcester Reed Warner, and Timoshenko Medals from ASME, the Von Neumann Medal from USACM, the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM, the Computational Mechanics Award of JSME, the Grand Prize from JSCES, and the Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettore. Dr. Hughes has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Louvain, Pavia, Padua, and Trondheim. His research interests include the development of patient-specific simulation technologies for cardiovascular disease, variational multiscale methods for complex fluid flows and turbulence, and Isogeometric Analysis: geometrically exact methods in computational mechanics that hold promise to unify computer aided design and engineering analysis methodologies. Lecture : Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA I will review current developments in the Isogeometric Analysis [1,2] approach to problems of computational mechanics and present recent progress toward developing integrated CAD/FEA procedures that do not involve traditional mesh generation and geometry clean-up steps, that is, the CAD file is directly utilized as the analysis input file. I will also summarize some of the mathematical developments within Isogeometric Analysis that confirm the superior accuracy and robustness of spline-based approximations compared with traditional FEA and expand the scope of applications to new areas. Sample applications will be selected from problems of linear and nonlinear solids and structures, and fluids and fluid-structure interaction. [1] T.J.R. Hughes, J.A. Cottrell and Y. Bazilevs, "Isogeometric Analysis: CAD, Finite Elements, NURBS, Exact Geometry and Mesh Refinement," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 194, Nos. 39-41, pp. 4135-4195, 2005. [2] J.A. Cottrell, T.J.R. Hughes and Y. Bazilevs, Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA, Wiley, Chichester, U.K., 2009.





J. Korelc (Slovenia) Thursday 20th May     14h00-14h30     Room 342A Chair: P. Chabrand

Prof. Joze Korelc graduated from the University of Ljubljana and finished his PhD at the Darmstadt University of Technology. His research examines an interdisciplinary approach to computational mechanics as synthesis of classical numerical methods and symbolic-algebraic systems. He has published numerous articles on finite element technology for solid and contact problems, material modelling, sensitivity analysis, automatic code generation and the use of symbolic methods in engineering. Prof. Korelc is currently Head of the Division of Structures at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, President of the Central European Association of Computational Mechanics and a primal developer of the software systems AceGen and AceFEM for on-demand numerical code generation and finite element analysis. Lecture : Automation of Computational Modeling by Automatic Differentiation Abstract of the lecture





T. Laursen (USA) Tuesday 18th May     14h00-14h30     Room Maillot Chair: H. Mang

Tod Laursen co-directs the Computational Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, and has particular interest in the development and application of computational methods for nonlinear applications in solid and structural mechanics. In addition to his primary appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, he holds secondary appointments in both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Duke. His teaching interests encompass basic undergraduate courses in engineering science and mechanics, and graduate courses in nonlinear mechanics, numerical methods, and finite element methodologies. Although his research spans computational nonlinear solid mechanics fairly broadly, its primary focus has been on the development of effective computational strategies for the treatment of contact-impact phenomena in mechanics. Among other sources, this work has been funded by a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation , a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research , the AFOSR, Intel, and Sandia National Laboratories. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Elsevier Journal, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design , and author of the research monograph Computational Contact and Impact Mechanics , which was published by Springer in March of 2002. He is the author of over 80 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Lecture : Computational Interface Mechanics: Lessons from Mortar-Based Contact and Extensions to Granular Systems and Fluid-Structure Coupling Problems involving interfaces, either of a physical nature or introduced by numerical approximation, are ubiquitous in engineering mechanics. Examples include classical contact-impact, fracture mechanics, propagation of phase boundaries, fluid-structure interaction, and countless others. This talk will focus on issues of numerical stability and accuracy that must be attended to when such interfaces must be included in a realistic simulation of a physical system. In general, in such applications, the interface is characterized by some sort of discontinuity in the fluxes and primary solution variables, subject to interface constitutive laws and/or constraints. The numerical method often represents these features either by a discontinuity in gridding topology as the interface is crossed, or by an enrichment scheme which builds the discontinuities into the local representation of the relevant fields. We will begin by reviewing the manner in which mortar enrichment has been used in recent years to provide new robust, stable, and optimally convergent discretization schemes for contact-impact applications in large deformation inelastic solid mechanics. Building upon this basis, recent results will be reviewed in which relevant notions of interface stabilization are brought to bear on polycrystalline interface mechanics in elasticity (in the context of an XFEM method), and in fluid-structure interaction problems (involving large motion solid mechanics interacting with neighboring Stokes fluid flow). Relevant examples will be shown and general conclusions drawn about the importance of interface stabilization in computational mechanics.





P. Le Tallec (France) Thursday 20th May     14h30-15h00     Room Maillot Chair: P. Diez

Patrick LE TALLEC field of research is concerned with computational mechanics. A part of his career was devoted to Augmented Lagrangian and operator splitting methods in nonlinear mechanics, to the numerical analysis and simulation of nonlinear elastic problems, to domain decomposition techniques and to fluid structure interaction problems. His current interests concern the dynamics of nonlinear structures, the multiscale simulation of contact problems, and the development of multiscale and multimaterial modelling for nonlinear structures.. He is Professor of Computational Mechanics at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He has authored and coauthored seven books on the above topics, together with more than seventy refereed papers in international journals. He is associate editor of the International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering and member of the editorial board of Computer and Structures and of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Lecture : Multiscale modelling and approximation of incompressible reinforced materials. Fiber reinforced layers are very popular in industry but are prone to structural instabilities to be observed in various experimental and technological environments and to be presented in the talk. Such situations combine global inplane buckling of reinforcing fibers and local shearing or compression of filling material. They require enriched multiscale models, with an adequate kinematic description of the different components, and a continuous exchange of information between local heterogeneous models specified by solving local cell problems and global models to be properly specified at the structural level. In this framework, existing finite element models must be adapted and developed. In addition, incompressibility constraints require a triple action - Impose pointwise incompressibility of the rubber inside each local problem - Ensure the well posedness of the local problem. In particular, global deformations imposed at local scale must verify a volume preserving restriction. - Avoid numerical locking at global scale due to the volume preserving restriction to be imposed at local scale. The solution to be presented and illustrated combines standard multiscale numerical techniques and specific subintegration strategies in order to achieve efficiency and consistency.





H. Matthies (Germany) Friday 21th May     11h50-12h20     Room Maillot Chair: A. Ibrahimbegovic

Education 1971 Abitur at Albert-Schweitzer Gymnasium, Hamburg 1971 - 1976 Technische University Berlin, Germany studies of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Mechanics 1976 Diploma in Mathematics, Technical University Berlin 1976 - 1978 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate studies of Mathematics and Computer Science 1978 Doctor of Philosophy in the Field of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Career 1979 - 1981 Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg, Germany, Research Analyst 1981 - 1982 Director, Werner Matthies Engineering Co. (WMI), Hamburg, Germany 1982 - 1995 Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg, Germany, Manager Structural Analysis/Offshore Dept., Research Coordinator 1995 - present Professor of Computer Science, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany, Head of the Institute of Scientific Computing 1996 - 2006 Head of University Computing Centre 02-03/2000 Visiting Scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Structural Research Centre (SERC) in Chennai (Madras), India 2002 - 2008 Invited Professor at ENS Cachan (Paris), France 07/2003 Visiting Professor at ICES, University of Texas at Austin, USA 11-12/2003 Visiting Professor at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand 02-03/2004 Visiting Professor at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Awards, Invited lectures 1976 - 1978 DAAD scholarship for graduate studies at MIT 1989 Plenary Lecture, COMPLAS II, Barcelona 1990 Plenary Lecture, IUTAM/IAHR Symposium, St. Johns 1999 DAAD-CSIR scholarship 2002 Plenary Lecture, Multi-Field conference, Stuttgart 2004 Intl. Assoc. Comp. Mech. (IACM) Fellow Award 2007 Plenary Lecture, SIAM CSE Conference, Los Angeles 2008 Plenary Lecture, IUTAM Symposium, Kapstadt 2008 Plenary Lecture, GAMM Annual Conference, Bremen 2008 Most Cited Author (2005-2008) Award Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engrng. 2009 Plenary Lecture, Coupled Problems, Ischia 2009 Plenary Lecture, SEECCM 2009, Rhodos Boards Deputy Speaker of GAMM expert committee "Multi-Field Problems" DFG- Intensive Programme (Post-graduate level) "Environmental Risk due to Natural Hazards" Fulbright counselor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig Lecture : Efficient Uncertainty Quantification via Sparse Representation Abstract of the lecture





X. Oliver (Spain) Friday 21th May     11h50-12h20     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: G. Zavarise

Professor Xavier Oliver obtained the degree of Civil Engineer at the Civil Engineering School of Valencia (Spain) in 1976. After a short career in the construction management field, he moved to the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona to obtain the Ph.D. degree in 1982. Since then, he has remained at the Civil Engineering School of Barcelona (ETSECCPB) as Associate Professor (1982) and Professor (1989). His research has been mainly related with computational solid mechanics, more specifically in the fields of computational material failure and numerical modeling of forming processes. He has made major contributions in embedded finite elements for the computational modeling of fracture and in the modeling of strain softening behavior. He is fellow of the IACM (2002), member of the Catalan Royal Academy of Doctors (2006) and got the IACM Computational Mechanics Award (2008) and the AMCA International Award (2008). He is presently chairman of the Spanish Association for Computational Mechanics (SEMNI). Lecture : On a new 3D contact domain method for large deformation contact problems Abstract of the lecture





E. Onate (Spain) Thursday 20th May     14h00-14h30     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: N. Moës

Date and place of birth: March 28th 1953, Valencia, Spain, Married. Three children. ACADEMIC DEGREES 1975 Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Civil Engineering), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. 1976 Master in Science, University College of Swansea, United Kingdom. 1978 Doctor in Philosophy. University College of Swansea, United Kingdom. 1979 Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Ph.D. in Civil Engineering) ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1979 Associated Professor at Technical University of Catalonia (School of Civil Engineering). 1981 Full Profesor in Structural Mechanics, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). 1983 - 89 Director of Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (School of Civil Engineering), UPC 1992-95 Director of Department of Strenght of Materials and Structural Analysis at UPC SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS 1987 Vicepresident of International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering 1989 - 2004 President of Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) 1992-95 President of Scientif Council of the Center for Supercomputing of Catalonia (CESCA) 1993-96 Vice-president of European Community on Computat. Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) 1994 - 2004 General Secretary of International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) 2000 - 2004 President of European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences(ECCOMAS) 2002 President of International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) 2004 Honorary President of the Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) MAIN TEACHING ACTIVITY AT SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING ,TECHNICAL UNIV. OF CATALONIA (UPC) 1979 - Advanced course on Structural Analysis 1980 - Introduction to the Finite Element Method (Ph.D. Course) 1984 - Analysis of thermal problems (Ph. D. Course) 1985 - Director of Master Course on Numerical Methods in Engineering 1979 - Participant in over 250 short courses and seminars in different topics related to Computational Engineering SUPERVISOR OF 46 Ph.D thesis MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS Finite strip methods for prismatic plate and shell structures. Finite element methods for hot metal forming and sheet stamping processes. Rotation-free plate and shell elements. FEM analysis of composite structures using mixing theory. Critical displacement method for structural stability analysis. Meshless techniques based on finite point methods. Stabilized methods based on finite calculus theory for problems in fluid and solid mechanics. Particle finite element method (PFEM) for fluid-structure interaction and multiphysic engineering problems. Lecture : Advances in the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) for Problems in Sea, Earth and Fire Abstract of the lecture





M. Papadrakakis (Greece) Wednesday 19th May     14h30-15h00     Room 342A Chair: A. Klawon

Manolis Papadrakakis is Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics and Director of the Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research in the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is the President of ECCOMAS, editor of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME) Journal, honorary editor of the International Journal of Computational Methods (IJCM), member of the editorial board of 15 international scientific journals; President of the John Argyris International Centre for Computational Methods in Engineering and Vice President of the John Argyris Foundation. He is also a member of IACM Executive Council; General Council as well as Fellow and recipient of the Computational Mechanics Award. His main fields of interest are: Solution of large-scale finite element problems with domain decomposition; Large-scale structural optimization; Stochastic finite element methods; Neural network applications in structural engineering; Computational methods for seismic design of structures; Nonlinear finite element simulation of steel and concrete structures; Adaptive finite element procedures; Soil-fluid-structure interaction problems. He has been Conference chairman or co-chairman of 12 international conferences as well as plenary lecturer or invited lecturer in a number of international conferences. He has published more than 420 papers in international refereed journals, international conference proceedings, and chapters in edited books. Lecture : Neural Network Predictions in Computational Mechanics: To Trust or Not to Trust Abstract of the lecture





U. Perego (Italy) Tuesday 18th May     14h00-14h30     Room 342A Chair: E. Stein

Umberto Perego, is full professor of Structural Mechanics at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. In the period 2000-2004 he has been the Chairman of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC) and he is now member of the General Council of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM). In 2008 he has been elected Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He has been the promoter and organizer of several workshops and conferences. In July 2008 he has been the Chairman, together with prof. B. Schrefler, of the Joint 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 5th Eccomas Congress in Venice. His research interests are in the field of the computational mechanics of materials and structures. Recent projects concern the modelling of concrete deterioration due to AAR in concrete dams, the material characterization and modelling of the folding and opening process of food packages, the development of computational tools for the simulation of fluid-structure interactions. Lecture : Shell Interface Finite Elements for the Simulation of Folding and Cutting of Composite Laminates Abstract of the lecture





D. Peric (UK) Thursday 20th May     14h00-14h30     Room 241 Chair: R. Haber

Djordje Peric is a professor in the School of Engineering at Swansea University, United Kingdom, and the Director of Civil Engineering Programme. Professor Peric has been responsible for fundamental contributions to the numerical treatment of elasto-plastic problems involving finite strains and deformations. He has also contributed prominently to the computational modelling of frictional contact problems and has made significant contributions to research into adaptive mesh refinement procedures for elasto-plastic materials with evolving geometries. His recent research contributions include development of computational strategies for fluid-structure interaction and fluid flows with free surfaces and interfaces incorporating surface tension. He is, also, actively involved in ongoing research on multiscale modelling of materials and structures. Professor Peric serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering and as an Editorial Board Member of five other prestigious international academic journals. He has co-authored over 180 research publications, and is a co-author of a recently published textbook Computational Methods in Plasticity: Theory and Applications. Professor Peric was awarded the Fellowship of the IACM in 2004. Lecture : On Strongly Coupled Computational Strategies for Fluid-Structure Interaction: New Insights into Algorithmic Basis





P. Pimenta (Brazil) Thursday 20th May     14h30-15h00     Room 251 Chair: J.L. Chenot

Paulo M. Pimenta was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in August 1954. He got his Civil Engineer degree at the Polytechnic School at the University of São Paulo in 1976 and his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 1982 (his advisor was Prof. J.H. Argyris). In 1989 he was appointed as full professor at the Polytechnic School at the University of São Paulo, where he still teaches. Since the PhD, he was visiting professor at the University of Stuttgart, Stanford University, "Instituto Superior Técnico" in Lisbon and the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. In 2006 he got from DFG a Mercator Chair at the Leibniz University of Hanover, where he spent a semester teaching and researching. In 2008 he acted as coordinator and lecturer of the course "New trends in thin structures: formulations, optimization and coupled problems" at the CISM, Udine, Italy. He was president of the Brazilian Association of Computational Mechanics, in the period 1999-2003. Now he belongs to its advisory council. He is member of the editorial board of the journals Computational Mechanics (Springer, Berlin) and "Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería" (CIMNE, Barcelona). Since 2003 he is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Latin-American Journal of Solids and Structures (São Paulo). In 1988 he became member of Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo and is recipient of the following awards: "Preis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart für besondere wissenschaftliche Leistungen", Prize "Conde Armando Álvares Penteado da Universidade de São Paulo" and the Prize "Belgo-Mineira". He is the head of the John Argyris Center for Computational Methods in Engineering at the Polytechnic School at the University of São Paulo. His fields of teaching and research are: Computational Structural, Solid and Material Mechanics. Recently, he was invited by the IACM to be the Chairman of the X WCCM (10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics) in São Paulo in 2012. His lecture will have a special focus on the nonlinear analysis of thin solids and structures. Lecture : Nonlinear analysis of thin rods and shells The lecture surveys our recent work on nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of rods and shells. First, the issue of finite rotations in 3D space is briefly discussed. Then a unified formulation of a geometrically nonlinear theory of rods and shell is presented. An attractive aspect is that the fundamental equations are totally written in terms of power conjugated cross-sectional stresses and strains. Important aspects of our works are entirely preserved, namely: (i) a special parameterization is adopted for the rotation field, with which update of the rotational degrees-of-freedom is made extremely simple, (ii) energetically conjugated cross-sectional stresses and strains are defined based upon the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor and the deformation gradient and (iii) nonlinear hyperelastic and elastic-plastic materials are permitted in a totally consistent way. The equations of motion are derived in strong and weak forms, the time-collocation of which (following an energy-momentum approach) ensures exact conservation of both momentum and mechanical energy in the absence of external forces. Spatial discretization is achieved through simple finite elements or the EFG meshless method. No type of locking is observed as the performance of the method is assessed by several numerical examples, which also illustrate the robustness of our formulation.





F. G. Rammerstorfer (Austria) Thursday 20th May     14h00-14h30     Room 251 Chair: J.L. Chenot

RAMMERSTORFER Franz G., o.Univ.Prof. DI Dr., Permanent faculty at the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) as Professor for Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering 1968-1973: Mechanical Engineering at TH Wien. 1973-1977: Ass. Prof., Institute of Rational Mechanics, TH Wien. 1976: Dr. techn., TU Wien. 1977-1983: Industrial employment: VOEST ALPINE Linz, Austria. 1982: venia docendi for "Mechanics" (Univ.-Dozent.). 1983-today: Full Professor. 1983-2003: Head of the Institute (ILFB), TU Wien. 1991-1997: Co-Chairman of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Micromechanics of Materials. 1998-2007: Vice-Rector for Research at TU Wien. 2003/2004: Visiting Professor at the Institute for Material Mechanics, TU München. Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AW), IACM-Fellow (International Association of Computational Mechanics), one of the Rectors of CISM in Udine, Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Senate of the Christian Doppler Research Society, Board-member of the Central European Association for Computational Mechanics (CEACM) Publications: 6 books (as author or co-editor), about 340 articles in journals, proceedings and books Research interests: F.G Rammerstorfer is working in the field of Computational Structural and Solid Mechanics, particularly with respect to advanced lightweight structures and lightweight materials, including composites engineering. Such structures and materials are treated in multiscale analyses, where stability considerations at different length scales are of special interest to F.G. Rammerstorfer. Lecture : Instabilities in Materials at the Nano, Micro, and Meso Scale Methods of computational mechanics for treating the stability of structures are well established. Extensions and modifications of these methods allow studying several aspects in materials and structural mechanics which are related to instabilities at different length scales, from the nano to the meso scale. Showing these extensions as well as modeling techniques and their applications in computational materials science are the objectives of this presentation. It is widely accepted that continuum mechanics based methods of structural analysis can be successfully used at different length scales of micro structured materials. With the inclusion of some additional effects, which are not relevant in structural mechanics, stability considerations can be performed this way even at the nano scale. For instance, it is shown how buckling of nanoparticles consisting of single or multiple atomic layers can be investigated by computational mechanics methods. On the micro scale the use of stability algorithms for characterizing cellular materials (e.g., open or closed cell foams) with respect to their homogenized mechanical behavior is demonstrated. Such micro structured materials, when used as components of material compounds (e.g., as core materials in sandwich shells) influence by their nonlinear homogenized material behavior the stability of the compound on the meso level. Typical examples for this are wrinkling or dimpling of face layers of sandwich materials. Furthermore, meso buckling and folding of corrugated paper is considered. Of course, the buckling and post-buckling behavior at the meso scale has consequences with respect to the effective stiffness used for analyzing the structural behavior at the macro scale. This way the stability behavior of whole structural components can be substantially influenced by the stability behavior of the material at several smaller length scales.





R. O. Ritchie (USA) Thursday 20th May     14h00-14h30     Room Maillot Chair: P. Diez

Robert O. Ritchie is the H.T. & Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; he is also Senior Faculty Scientist in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics/materials science from Cambridge University (1966-1973) and the Sc.D. degree from there in 1990. He is known for his research into the mechanics and micromechanics of fracture and especially fatigue in a broad range of structural and biological materials, having published over 600 papers and edited 19 books in the literature. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the U.K. Lecture : Structure, Damage and Fracture in Biological Materials : Bone, teeth and seashells Abstract of the lecture





K. Runesson (Sweden) Thursday 20th May     14h30-15h00     Room 241 Chair: R. Haber

Dr. Runesson holds the chair in Computational Mechanics within the dep. of Applied Mechanics at Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden. His research interests range from material modeling to goal-oriented adaptive FE-techniques. He has published some 110 journal papers. Examples of published work within the field of material modeling are subscale gradient crystal plasticity for polycrystalline metals, localized deformations in elastic-plastic-damaging solids and configurational forces on interfaces and cracks in the presence of material nonlinearities. His interest is currently focussed on multicsale modeling combined with strategies for combined model- and discretization adaptivity on two levels, i.e. (adaptive FE)^2. In particular, some recently published work on the concept of seemless scale-bridging is based on such combined strategies. Lecture : Adaptive Homogenization with Scale-Bridging in Material Modeling Abstract of the lecture





E. Sacco (Italy) Friday 21th May     11h50-12h20     Room 241 Chair: A. Duarte

Elio Sacco, professor Department of Mechanics, Structures & Environment - University of Cassino Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 - CASSINO (Italy) Phone +39.776.299659 - Fax +39.776.310812 E-mail: sacco@unicas.it Full Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures University of Cassino (Italy) Head of the Department of Mechanics, Structures & Environment, University of Cassino Ordinary Member of IACM General Council Fields of research : Unilateral Problems, Modeling of masonry materials and structures Mechanics of Composite Materials, Analysis of plate and shells, Finite element method, Modeling of shape-memory alloys Author of more than 200 scientific papers published in International Journals or as proceedings of National and International Conferences. International experiences Visiting Professor Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg (U.S.A.), Visiting Professor West Virginia University Morgantown (U.S.A), Associate Professor Convervatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris (France), Enseignant invité, école Centrale Marseille, Marseille (France). Lecture : Modeling of masonry structures Abstract of the lecture





C. Sansour (UK) Thursday 20th May     14h30-15h00     Room 252B Chair: A. Nouy

Carlo Sansour completed his PhD at the University of Stuttgart and his habilitation in mechanics at the Darmstadt University of Technology before serving as senior lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Technology. He joined the University of Adelaide, Australia, as Associate Professor before finally taking up a Chair at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he is heading the Centre of Structures and Construction which is part of the Division of Materials, Mechanics and Structures. His research interests and accomplishments stretch from shell theory and its finite element formulations to computational structural dynamics and energy-momentum methods, from anisotropic inelastic deformations at finite strains to fibre reorientation in biological tissues. Old and recent research area is generalised continua and their numerical implications. Electromechanical coupling is a recent area of interest. The lecture will take place in the realm of these last two topics. Lecture : Generalised Continua, Electromechanical Coupling and Scale Effects Abstract of the lecture





J. Schröder (Germany) Tuesday 18th May     14h30-15h00     Room Maillot Chair: H. Mang

Jörg Schröder studied civil engineering, took his doctoral degree at the University of Hannover and habilitated at the University of Stuttgart. He was Professor of Mechanics at Darmstadt University of Technology and is currently Professor of Mechanics at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2001. His fields of research are, amongst others, theoretical and computer-oriented continuum mechanics, as well as phenomenological material science with an emphasis on the derivation of anisotropic constitutive relations -- construction of anisotropic constitutive laws: hyperelasticity, anisotropic polyconvexity, anisotropic plasticity and electromechanically coupled functional ceramics -- and the further development of the finite element method including direct multi-scale homogenization techniques. Lecture : Aspects of the Multiscale Modeling of Electromechanically Coupled Materials Abstract of the lecture





R. Sevilla (UK) Friday 21th May     11h50-12h20     Room 252B Chair: M. Bonnet

Lecture : Nurbs-enhanced finite element method (NEFEM) Abstract of the lecture





O. Sigmund (Denmark) Tuesday 18th May     14h30-15h00     Room 252B Chair: J. Eberhardsteiner

Ole Sigmund is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) since 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. degree 1994 and Dr. Techn. (Danish habilitation) in 2001 both from DTU. He has worked as research assistant at the University of Essen, Germany and as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, USA. Ole Sigmund is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences since 2003 and the Royal Academy of Science and Letters (Denmark) since 2008. He is the Secretary of the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (DCAMM, affiliated with Euromech) since 2004 and has been awarded with a European Young Investigator Award (EURYI), the Grundfos Prize and the Elite Research Prize from the Danish Minister of Science. Ole Sigmund's research interests include theoretical extensions and applications of topology optimization methods to the design of extremal materials, smart materials, compliant mechanisms, MicroElectroMechanical Systems, crashworthiness, fluid systems and wave-propagation problems in acoustics, elasticity, nano-optics, metamaterials and antennas. Lecture : Multiphysics Topology Optimization Abstract of the lecture





P. Steinmann (Germany) Tuesday 18th May     14h00-14h30     Room 252B Chair: J. Eberhardsteiner

Paul Steinmann main research interests and activities are in the area of 1) continuuum mechanics with focus on: multiscale material modelling, coupled problems including electro-elasticity and the like, failure mechanics including localization analysis and continuum dislocation theory, configurational mechanics, nonstandard continua like e.g. the micromorphic continum, 2)computational mechanics with focus on: finite element methods, alternative discretization methods, solution algorithms, computational dynamics. Lecture : Recent Progress in the Modelling and Computation of Electro-Active Polymers Abstract of the lecture





S. Stupkiewicz (Poland) Thursday 20th May     14h30-15h00     Room 342A Chair: P. Chabrand

Stanislaw Stupkiewicz is an associate professor at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT) in Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include micromechanics of interfaces and interface layers, multiscale modelling of shape memory alloys, constitutive modelling of contact phenomena, contact mechanics, sensitivity analysis and optimization. Currently, his activities are mostly focused on interfacial energy effects in martensitic transformations and on multiscale modelling of contact phenomena. Lecture : Interfacial energy and size effects in multiscale modelling of shape memory alloys Abstract of the lecture





K. Terada (Japan) Tuesday 18th May     14h30-15h00     Amphithéâtre bleu Chair: B. Schrefler

Kenjiro Terada is an associate professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. His research interests have been the multi-scale modeling and the development of computational methods for characterization of mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials by means of the mathematical homogenization method. In addition to the continuous and noteworthy contributions in that area of research, he also has been involved in the development of the finite cover method, known as a meshfree method derived from the manifold method, with a view to utilizing in the multiscale and multiphysics computations. His present research activities concern the development of prediction methods of multi-physical deterioration of composite materials in view of chemo-mechanical and electro-mechanical behavior at micro-scale. He has published more than 150 refereed journal articles throughout his career (approx. 42 of these have been in international journals) in the field of computational mechanics, with the quality of his contribution being recognized with the JSCES Outstanding Paper Award in 2003 and 2007. Also, he earned the Computational Mechanics Achievements Award, Computational Mechanics Division, JSME, in 2007. He has been a member of the Executive Council of JSCES (The Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science), a Japan chapter of IACM, and carries on the 2nd International Workshops on Advances in Computational Mechanics (held in Yokohama, 2010) as a chairman. Also, he renders a service on adult education as the President of the Japan Association for Nonlinear CAE. Lecture : Modeling and analysis of macroscopic mechanical deterioration due to time-varying microstructures Abstract of the lecture





W. Wall (Germany) Wednesday 19th May     14h00-14h30     Room 252B Chair: S. Prudhomme

The research interests of Wolfgang A. Wall can be described as application motivated fundamental research in a broad range of areas in computational mechanics, including both computational solid and fluid mechanics. His current focus is on multifield and multiscale problems as well as on computational biomechanics. In coupled problems he did put an emphasis on fluid-structure interaction (including novel formulations and solver) but meanwhile extended it also to other areas (like electrochemistry, aero-thermo-fluid interaction, etc.). Multiscale methods where developed both for fluids (LES) and solids with multiphysics effects (tissue modeling). The biomechanics area includes the development of a comprehensive model of the respiratory system, of a model for the rupture risk prediction of abdominal aortic aneurysms and recently was also extended to smaller scales relevant to biophysics (e.g. Brownian dynamics of polymers). Lecture : Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Beyond ? advances in formulations, methods, scales and applications Abstract of the lecture