Organizers:
W. Sumelka, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Ł. Madej, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
G. Z. Voyiadjis, Louisiana State University, USA
Y. Sun, Hohai University, China
J. Lian, Aalto University, School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Espoo, Finlandia
The thematic session focuses on non-conventional techniques for solid and fluid mechanics, including experimental, theoretical and computational aspects. The attention is focused on heterogeneous/multiscale/multiphase/multifunctional materials and fluids, and their behaviour especially in the framework of coupled field problems.
Topics:
Organizers:
Michał Giersig, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Marek Trippenbach, University of Warsaw, Poland
Today, nanotechnology is one of the most important technologies that has applications in virtually all areas of our lives. The ability to design, manipulate, characterize and fabricate materials at the nanoscale is a central goal of the sessions of this conference. Properties of nanomaterials such as reactivity, melting point, fluorescence, mechanical strength, and electrical conductivity can be altered at the nanoscale, making it difficult to predict how these materials interact with humans and the environment. Advanced computational simulations to theoretically explain the specific physical and chemical properties of the nanomaterials and to predict new ones.
The session topics include:
Organizers:
Romuald Będziński, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Ewa Majchrzak, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Scope of the session includes, but it is not limited to:
General biomechanics (the determination of external forces and internal forces acting on the biological systems, e.g. on the human body) and the effects that these forces cause.
Medical biomechanics, based on the use of results of general biomechanics research in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of organs.
Biomechanical engineering, which applies the principles of general biomechanics for the analysis and design of technical devices.
Biomechanics of work, the subject of which is the consideration of the causes and effects of workloads resulting from physical work for the human musculoskeletal system.
Bio-heat transfer. Modeling of thermal processes proceeding in the domain of biological tissue. Interactions between skin tissue and the external heat sources.
Growth and evolution modeling of the living tissues. Bone remodeling.
Organizers:
P. Baranowski (Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
K. Jamroziak (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)
J. Małachowski (Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
P. Sielicki (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
The topic of the mini-symposium covers the civil and mechanical engineering issues among others, such as infrastructure safety, durability safety of mechanical systems, or crashworthiness abilities of materials and structures. The papers of various characters are welcome, that is, not only regarding modelling the phenomena or performing the simulations, but related with field or laboratory experiments. All papers should present the numerical solutions supported within the theoretical background or actual experiment.
The research paper may be devoted to (but are not limited to):
Organizers:
Witold Cecot, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Waldemar Rachowicz, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Roger Sauer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany & Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Grzegorz Zboiński, Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Gdansk, Poland
Computational solid mechanics uses the principles of mechanics, mathematical and numerical methods as well as advanced computing to enable modeling and a better understanding of mechanical phenomena and processes. The session will be devoted to both development and applications of advanced computational methods used in solid mechanics. In particular, we wish to invite papers presenting the newest advances in Finite Element Method, Meshfree Techniques, Discontinuous Petrov Galerkin Methodology, Virtual and Boundary Element Methods, Finite Volume Method, Isogeometric Analysis, Generalized FEM. Theoretical progress in developing algorithms, adaptivity and error estimation, high order approximation, convergence and discrete stability studies, multiscale discretization, mixed approximations are of interest.
Organizers:
Ali Javili, Bilkent University, Turkey
Jakub Lengiewicz, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Marco Paggi, IMT Lucca, Italy
Julien Scheibert, CNRS/Ecole Centrale Lyon, France
Stanislaw Stupkiewicz, IPPT PAN, Poland
Interfaces play a pivotal role across a broad spectrum of materials. They are not only omnipresent but also frequently determine the overall performance, resilience, and functional properties of many advanced materials and systems. This thematic session warmly welcomes contributions that explore modelling and simulation of physico-mechanical problems at all types of interfaces and interphases. These encompass material and propagating interfaces at various scales, interphase layers, fracture mechanics of interfaces, and contact problems at interfaces, among others. The session is open to a broad range of modelling approaches, including analytical solutions, computational methods for interface challenges, multiscale modelling, sharp- and diffuse-interface strategies, constitutive modelling of contact/fracture phenomena, multi-field problems, and beyond. Moreover, submissions that employ experimental approaches focusing on interfaces are also encouraged.
Organizers:
Zbigniew L. Kowalewski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, IPPT PAN, Warsaw, Poland
Elżbieta A. Pieczyska, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, IPPT PAN, Warsaw, Poland
Danny Van Hemelrijck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB, Belgium
Hisaaki Tobushi, Aichi Institute of Technology AIT, Toyota-city, Japan
Ryosuke Matsui, Aichi Institute of Technology AIT, Toyota-city, Japan
The session on will focus on selected aspects of experimental mechanics of solid bodies, i.e.:
Main topics
Organizers:
M. Gutierrez, Colorado School of Mines, USA
S. Pietruszczak, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
J. Podgórski, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
J. Tejchman, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
This thematic session is devoted to the presentation and discussion of problems related to theoretical and numerical analyses of geomaterials such as natural rocks, concrete, soils, and granular media.
The scope of the session is particularly related to experimental studies and numerical simulations of different processes in geomaterials (e.g. inelastic deformational response, plasticity, creep, damage growth, cracking, strain localization, chemical degradation, thermal effects, scale effect, grain contact interaction, treated at macro- and micro-scales) and interaction of geomaterials with engineering structures.
Research related to simulation of geophysical processes, which involves multiscale and multifield constitutive modelling including thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in saturated and unsaturated geomaterials, is also welcome.
Organizers:
Z. Gronostajski, Politechnika Wrocławska, Polska
This thematic session is devoted to all technologies that change the shapes and physical or chemical properties including heat treatment of raw materials or parts into finished goods using analytical, numerical and experimental techniques.
The session will cover the following topics:
Organizers:
Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska, IPPT, Warsaw, Poland
Sebastien Mercier, University of Lorraine, LEM3, Metz, France
Guadalupe Vadillo and José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
The scope of session covers the micromechanical modelling of heterogeneous and multi-component materials, related to the description and analysis of the influence of material microstructure on their effective thermomechanical response. Contributions presenting experimental validation of micromechanical models are also welcomed. The session will cover the following topics:
Organizers:
Jerzy Rojek, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Bernhard Peters, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Łukasz Figiel, University of Warwick, UK
The session addresses multiphysics and coupled problems involving different physical phenomena such as solid and fluid mechanics, thermal, electrical or magnetic fields.
The session aims to gather contributions presenting developments of theoretical description of multiphysics phenomena, numerical modelling of multiphysics problems, coupled solution algorithms, experimental investigation of multiphysics phenomena, and industrial applications.
The topics will span fluid-solid interaction, thermal-stress coupling, fluid-solid-thermal coupling, thermo-electro-mechanical coupling, and others. The session is open for different practical applications, including mechanical and civil engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, metallurgy, geomechanics, biomechanics.
Experimental parametrization and validation of multiphysics models and the multi-field coupling in those models across material time and length scales are of particular interest in this session, along with the use of data-driven approaches for parameter and constitutive law identification.
Organizers:
Jilin Hou, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Łukasz Jankowski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztof Kęcik, Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland
Krzysztof Mendrok, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Przemysław Perlikowski, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
This session invites theoretical and experimental contributions dealing with all aspects of nonlinear dynamical systems, as well as structural control and monitoring, in the area of mechanical, structural and civil engineering.
Mechanical systems with nonlinearities represent a large group of dynamical systems. Nonlinearity can be introduced in a variety of ways: by geometry; by characteristics of springs and dampers; by friction or impacts, etc. The dynamics of such systems is complex and can lead to unexpected behavior, and the detailed knowledge about stability and coexistence of solutions is the crucial issue. In many applications the usefulness of nonlinear systems exceeds the linear ones, which allows them to be used for significantly wider purposes. We welcome all submission focused on nonlinear dynamical systems and their applications in mechanical and structural systems.
We invite also contributions on mechanical and structural control systems, including active, adaptive, distributed and semi-active control strategies, as well as related actuators. Such systems can be designed to employ smart strategies of structural adaptation to external excitations and vibration patterns. The adaptation might be implemented through a number of diverse physical mechanisms and smart materials (magnetorheological fluids, tuned inerter dampers, piezoelectric actuators, bistable valves, etc. ). Various control objectives are possible, such as dissipation of vibration or impact energy, protection of specific substructures, minimization of displacements and accelerations, etc. The nonlinearity or bilinearity of the involved control encourages nonstandard optimization approaches.
Finally, we encourage contributions in the area of structural health monitoring. This field involves local nondestructive testing, global monitoring systems, and their applications for damage detection, localization, and quantification. The topics of interest include the related problems of indirect input estimation and tracking, lifetime prediction, optimization of sensor systems, as well as sensing technologies, and reports on practical applications.
Organizers:
Reijo Kouhia, Tampere University, Finland
Andreas Menzel, TU Dortmund/Lund University, Germany
Błażej Skoczeń, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Jerzy Pamin, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
The theories and applications of plasticity remain in the focus of interest in mechanics of materials and structures. This includes the microstructural background of plasticity representation of anisotropy and unstable material response coupling with other constitutive theories. Alternative mathematical frameworks and algorithmic aspects of plasticity are also considered. Moreover new plastic models are developed for multiscale phenomena and multi physics research in particular for thermoplasticity. Papers related to ant of the above aspects of plasticity are invited for submission. Within the damage and fracture mechanics part of the session, research communications are sought on the influence of defects at different scales on the mechanical response of materials and structural components. Contributions which provide a better understanding of the mechanisms of crack nucleation and growth along with their impact on engineering applications are welcome. Macroscale micromechanical, multiscale and atomistic models of damage and fracture fall within the scope of this session.
Organizers:
W. Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
B. Brank, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
I. Kreja, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
K. Wiśniewski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
The topics of the session include (but are not limited to):
If you have any queries about the session, please write to kwisn@ippt.pan.pl
Organizers:
Bartłomiej Błachowski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Tomasz Lewiński, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
János Lógó, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Many real problems arising nowadays in structural and engineering mechanics can be formulated as optimization tasks. These tasks can frequently be classified into one of three groups: (i) numerical aspects of optimization algorithms, (ii) software development for practical case studies, and (iii) emerging technologies and applications.
(i) Numerical aspects of optimization algorithms include:
– Approximations and Surrogates or Metamodels;
– Design Under Uncertainty;
– Evolutionary & Heuristic Optimization;
– Robust and Reliability-Based Design Optimization;
(ii) Software development for practical case studies encompasses:
– Domain decomposition;
– High Performance Computing;
– GPU/CPU architectures
– Parallel and distributed software technologies;
(iii) Emerging Methods and Applications include, but are not limited to:
– Digital Twin Systems;
– Data-driven methods;
– Machine learning and;
– Artificial Intelligence methods;
The aim of this thematic session is to stimulate the communication between researchers working on different areas of structural optimization and practitioners who need reliable and efficient computational optimization methods.
The session organizers invite original contributions related to both theoretical and practical aspects of structural optimization.