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Monday, June 30th    16:30 - 18:30
Advances in Computational Mechanics in Honor of Professor Maier I
Minisymposium organized by Eugenio Onate, Claudia Comi and Giorgio Novati
Room: EXC1.1
MS155A
16:30 Microplane Modeling of Damage and Fracturing in Particulate and Fiber Composites and Bio-Materials
Zdeněk P. Bažant, Ferhun C. Caner, Christian Hoover and Zaoyang Guo

16:50 Fatigue Shape Optimization of Notched Machine Parts Made of Metallic or Two-Phase Composite Materials
Bogdan Wilczynski and Zenon Mróz

17:10 Assessing Instability Effects on the Collapse of Thick Tubes:The Role of Numerical Analysis
Leone Corradi

17:30 Performance Evaluation of Masonry Infill Walls Subjected to Axial and In-Plane Shear: Meso-and Macro Experiments and Simulations
Kaspar Willam, Ben Blackard and Carlo Citto

17:50 Effective Stress Principle in Modelling Shrinkage and Creep of Concrete at Early Ages and Beyond
Francesco Pesavento, Bernhard A. Schrefler, Dariusz Gawin and Mateusz Wyrzykowski

18:10 Modeling of Crack Behavior of Cementitious Materials under Cyclic Loads
Ioannis Koutromanos and Benson Shing

Tuesday, July 1st    10:30 - 12:30
Advances in Computational Mechanics in Honor of Professor Maier II
Minisymposium organized by Eugenio Onate, Claudia Comi and Giorgio Novati
Room: EXC1.1
MS155B
10:30 Nonconvex Plasticity and Microstructure (Keynote Lecture)
Michael Ortiz

11:00 Two-Scale Models for Fracture in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media (Keynote Lecture)
Rene de Borst, Julien Réthoré and Marie-Angele Abellan

11:30 Bifurcation, Localization and Ill-Posedness for the Time Dicretized Boundary-Value Problem
Ahmed Benallal

11:50 Shear Bands, Perturbations and Boundary Elements in Incremental Nonlinear Elasticity
Davide Bigoni

12:10 Advances in the Particle Finite Element for Fluid-Soil-Structure Interaction
Eugenio Oñate, Sergio Idelsohn and Miguel A. Celigueta

Tuesday, July 1st    14:00 - 16:00
Advances in Computational Mechanics in Honor of Professor Maier III
Minisymposium organized by Eugenio Onate, Claudia Comi and Giorgio Novati
Room: EXC1.1
MS155C
14:00 Energy-Residual-Based Approach to Gradient Plasticity
Guido Borino and Castrenze Polizzotto

14:20 Numerical Modeling of the Human Cardiovascular System
Alfio Quarteroni

14:40 Cohesive Crack Model Description of Mechanical Instabilities in Quasi-Brittle and Composite Materials
Alberto Carpinteri and Marco Paggi

15:00 A Unified Potential-Based Approach for Mixed Mode Cohesive Fracture
Glaucio Paulino, Kyoungsoo Park and Jeffery R. Roesler

15:20 Application of a Three-Field Natural Neighbour Method in Linear Fracture Mechanics
Li Xiang, Serge Cescotto and Laurent Duchene

15:40 Green‘s Functions and Finite Elements or why Stresses are Rarely Accurate
Friedel Hartmann

Tuesday, July 1st    16:30 - 18:30
Advances in Computational Mechanics in Honor of Professor Maier IV
Minisymposium organized by Eugenio Onate, Claudia Comi and Giorgio Novati
Room: EXC1.1
MS155D
16:30 Structural Optimization of Elastoplastic Structures under Shakedown Conditions
Erwin Stein and Karin Wiechmann

16:50 Direct Methods derived from Linear Solution Methods with Spatial Variation of Moduli
Alan Ponter

17:10 Application of the Lower Bound Shakedown Theorem for the Assessment and Design of Composites
Dieter Weichert, Abdelkader Hachemi, Min Chen and Said Mouhtamid

17:30 Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints (Mpecs) in Engineering Mechanics
Francis Tin-Loi

17:50 Control the Thermal Response of Thin-Walled Structures using the Robust Design Method
Lijia Fan, Zhihai Xiang, Mingde Xue and Zhangzhi Cen

 

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