The IUTAM Symposium on Integrated Computational Structure-Material Modeling of Deformation and Failure under Extreme Conditions was successfully held in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, on June 20 – 22, 2016. The event, hosted by Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering and co-sponsored by the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), brought together international experts in the field of Computational and Experimental Mechanics, and Materials Science with a goal of developing a 10-year vision and planning for advancing the field to enable solving the technological, economic and social challenges.
Seventy participants including thirty-four invited speakers and eight panelists from academia, governmental agencies and the industry, presented and discussed their work over the three full days of meeting – addressing state-of-the-art topics and emerging issues such as range of spatial and temporal scales needed for physics-based modeling of deformation and failure, multidisciplinary approaches for integrating modeling and simulation, and characterization and experiments to predict non-homogeneous deformation and failure in heterogeneous materials including metals, ceramics and composites.
Each day concluded with a panel discussion on relevant topics that were led by invited panelist members from industries and government laboratories. In addition to talks, a two-day poster session was included to display the latest research performed by invited junior faculty members and researchers. Representatives from the Whiting School of Engineering were present throughout the symposium: Prof. Somnath Ghosh, the chair of the organizing committee welcomed the congregation on the first day of the meeting and was followed by opening remarks by Dean T.E. “Ed” Schlesinger. The Whiting School’s associate dean of research, Dr. Larry Nagahara, made an appearance during panel discussions.
Additional funding for this symposium comes from National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research Organization (ARO) and Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL).
