Theoretical and Applied Mechanics - International Congress Proceedings

Sponsoring organizations and companies; congress committees; list of participants; report on the congress. Opening and closing lectures: instability and turbulence in shear flows, A. Roshko; micromechanics of fracture, G.I. Barenblatt. Introductory lectures of minisymposia. Instabilities in solid and structural mechanics: material instabilities and phase transitions in thermoelasticity, R. Abeyaratne; propagating instabilities in structures, S. Kyriakides; computational approaches to plastic instability in solid mechanics, Y. Tomita. Sea surface mechanics and air-sea interaction: the role of wave breaking in air-sea interaction, W.K. Melville; extreme waves and breaking wavelets, O.M. Phillips; effect of wind and water shear on wave instabilities, P.G. Saffman. Biomechanics: nature's structural engineering of bone on a daily basis, S.C. Cowin; liquid layer dynamics in pulmonary airways, R.D. Kamm; energy-saving mechanisms in animal movement, R. McN. Alexander. Sectional lectures: controlling chaotic convection, H.H. Bau; application of structural mechanics to biological systems, C.R. Calladine; viscous fingering as a pattern forming system, Y. Couder; mechanics in sport, G. Grimvall; aerodynamic sound associated with vortex motions - observation and computation, T. Kambe; nonlinear membrane theory, A. Libai; on the role of wave propagation and wave breaking in atmosphere-ocean dynamics, M.E. McIntyre; computational aspects of integration along the path of loading in elastic-plastic problems, J.B. Martin; constitutive modelling and analysis of creep, damage and creep crack growth under neutron irradiation, S. Murakami; stability and bifurcation in dissipative media, Q.S. Nguyen; bubble mechanics - luminescence, noise, and two-phase flow, A. Prosperetti; wave propagation in non-isotropic structures, M.B. Sayir; self-similar multiplier distributions and multiplicative models for energy dissipation in high-Reynolds-number turbulence, K.R. Sreenivasan, G. Stolovitzky; cardiovascular fluid mechanics, A.A. van Steenhoven et al; trends in transonic research, J. Zierep. Contributed papers: list of contributed papers presented at the congress.