Mechanics Down Under (eBook)

The 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics was hosted by the Australasian mechanics community in the city of Adelaide during the last week of August 2008. Over 1200 delegates met to discuss the latest development in the fields of theoretical and applied mechanics. This volume records the events of the congress and contains selected papers from the sectional lectures and invited lectures presented at the congresses six mini-symposia.

Preface                                                                                                                                   Acknowledgments                                                                                                                             Sectional Lectures and Mini-symposium PapersMaterial Instabilities in Elastic and Plastic Solids: The Perturbative Approach; Davide BigoniModelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties; Alberto Carpinteri, Marco PaggiMulti-scale Analysis of Polycristalline Metals and Composites; J.-L. ChabocheMicro-architectured Solids: From Blast Resistant Structures to Morphing Wings; Norman A. FleckPlasto-Mechanics of Large Deformation under Impact Loading; N.K. GuptaOnset of Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection; W.R. Hu, Z.M. TangInstabilities of Flows through Deformable Tubes and Channels; O.E. JensenSurface Bubbles in Micro-and Nanofluidics; Bram Borkent, Detlef LohseBridged and Cohesive Crack Models for Fracture in Composite Materials; Roberta MassabòRelaxation to Steady Vortical Flows – and Knots in the Quark-Gluon Plasma; H.K. MoffattInstabilities across the Scales: Simple Models for Shear Banding, Plate Subduction and Mantle Convection in Geodynamics; Hans-Bernd Mühlhaus, Louis Moresi, Matt Davies, Klaus Gottschald, Alina HaleFrom Dry Granular Flows to Submarine Avalanches; Mickael Pailha, Maxime Nicolas, Olivier PouliquenFailure of Rocks in the Laboratory and in the Earth; J.W. RudnickiModeling of Bone Failure by Cohesive Zone Models; Thomas Siegmund, Matthew R. Allen, David B. BurrThe Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines; J.N. Sorensen, R. Mikkelsen, N. Troldborg, V.L. Okulov, W.Z. ShenCohesive-Zone Modeling of Adhesive Joints; M.D. ThoulessAuthor Index