Invited Speakers
Plenary Lectures
Gradient Theory and its Fractional Extension: Applications to Elasticity, Plasticity and Diffusion
Prof. Elias C. Aifantis
Elias C. Aifantis is an Emeritus Professor of Mechanics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/GR and Michigan Technological University/ USA; formerly a Distinguished Research Professor at King Abdulaziz University/SA, Distinguished Visiting Expert at ITMO University/RU and Southwest Jiaotong University/China, as well as an Invited Director at Togliatti State University/RU. He has promoted highly interdisciplinary work in mechanics of materials by bringing into the field of solid mechanics ideas from diffusion theory, chemical reactions, and nonlinear physics. He has pioneered theories on dislocation patterning and material instabilities, gradient elasticity and plasticity, chemomechanics and nanomechanics. His current interest is on neuro-nano-electro-chemo-mechanics. He has published over 339 articles and received about 11,704 citations with 54 h-index (Scopus); 10,832 citations with 53 h-index (Web of Science); and 17,860 citations with 66 h-index (Google Scholar). He is included in the ISI Web of knowledge list of the world’s most highly cited authors in engineering.
Numerical Studies on Aerospace Applications of Active Flow Control
Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal
Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of 40 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics, Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, and Computational Geo-mechanics and Combustion. He is the author and coauthor of over 600 publications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide in over fifty countries. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow twenty two societies including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Royal Aeronautical Society, and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations.
Quantum Evolution in Hypervariate Constitutive Models
Dr. Rebecca Brannon
Dr. Brannon is an ASME fellow with 27 years of experience in computational and theoretical mechanics, emphasizing high-rate destructive deformations of metals, ceramics, and rocks. Her models are applied to armor, ceramic hip-replacements, single-use batteries, bunker surety, and shaped-charge jet well-bore completion. She is also known for her monographs on tensor mathematics.
On-orbit Capture and Control of Non-cooperative Targets
Prof. Honghua Dai
Prof. Honghua Dai received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China, in 2009. He achieved the PhD degree in flight vehicle design from the School of Astronautics, NPU, in 2014. He had been a visiting PhD student in University of California, Irvine from 2010 to 2012 under the advice of Prof. Satya N. Atluri. He is now a full Professor with the School of Astronautics, NPU. His current research interests include: spacecraft dynamics and control, nonlinear structuraldynamics, and robust control methods, etc. Prof. Dai received 2017 ICCESOutstanding Young Investigator Award; 2017 Hong Kong Scholar Award, 2015 Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Province: Frist Prize; 2013 Outstanding Young Researcher Award of NPU. Prof. Dai is an AIAA Senior member. He is member of the 2020 ICCES organizing committee.
The Essentially Simple Meshless Galerkin Fragile Points Method Based on Point Stiffnesses for Extreme Problems
Prof. Leiting DongDr. Leiting Dong is currently a full professor in the Department of Aircraft Design in Beihang University (also known as Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics). He focuses his studies in modeling methods for the design of aerospace structures and materials. Special interests include fatigue and damage tolerance design of complex metal components, multiscale analysis and design of composite materials and structures, and large deformation analysis of geometrically nonlinear structures. His research is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, etc. By far he has published more than 35 peer-reviewed journal articles, with an h-index 15. He won the Thousand Young Talents Award of China in 2015. He won the CMES Outstanding Young Author Award in 2015, and the ICCES Young Investigator Award in 2017.
To be announced
Prof. Motoharu Fujigaki
Motoharu Fujigaki received his BE and ME degrees in mechanical engineering from Osaka University in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He received his doctoral degree from Osaka University in 2001. He was working in NABCO Ltd. from 1992 to 1995. He moved to Department of Opto-Mechatronics, Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University in 1995 as a research associate. He became an associate professor in 2003. He moved to Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui as a full professor in 2015. He is interested in optical metrology using image processing, especially 3D shape measurement using gating projection method, deformation measurement using phase analysis method used for structural health monitoring and small displacement and strain distribution measurement using laser interferometry.
Challenge and Numerical Solution in Mathematical Modeling of Sequential Initiation and Simultaneous Propagation of Multiple Fractures in Hydraulic-Fracturing Shale Oil/Gas Formations to Mitigate Frac-Driven Interaction
Prof. Boyun GuoDr. Boyun Guo holds a B.S. degree from Daqing Petroleum Institute, an M.S. degree from Montana Tech, and a Ph.D. degree from New Mexico Tech, all in Petroleum Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems at the Energy Institute of Louisiana and Chevron-Endowed Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Prior to joining University of Louisiana at Lafayette in year 2000 Dr. Guo worked in the energy industry for accumulative 9 years. The last position he held was the TechTEAM leader in EPS Americas. Dr. Guo’s research interest is in the areas of oil and gas exploration and production engineering. He has published over 160 technical papers and authored 12 books in petroleum engineering. Dr. Guo won the Distinguished Faculty Award from New Mexico Tech in 1993, Teacher of the Year Award from University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Engineering in 2008, Researcher of the Year Award from UL Lafayette College of Engineering in 2016, and the Eminent Faculty – Distinguished Professor Award at University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2017.
Mechanics-guided, Deterministic 3D Assembly
Prof. Yonggang Huang
Yonggang Huang is the Walter P. Murphy Professor at Northwestern University. He is interested in mechanics of stretchable and flexible electronics, and mechanically guided deterministic 3D assembly. He has published >500 journal papers, including multi-disciplinary journals Science (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019) and Nature (2008, 2013, 2016, 2019). He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of Academia Europaea, and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research awards since 2010 include the Richards Award in 2010, Drucker Medal in 2013, Nadai Medal in 2016, and Thurston Lecture Award in 2019 from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Prager Medal in 2017 from the Society of Engineering Sciences; Bazant Medal in 2018 and von Karman Medal in 2019 from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (2009), in Materials Science (since 2014), and in Physics (2018).
Multistage-Multifunctional in Micro and Nanostructures
Prof. Kim Meow Liew
Kim Meow Liew is Chair Professor of Civil Engineering in City University of Hong Kong. His research activities encompass structural mechanics, optimization, nano-mechanics and nano-materials, multi-scale modelling and bioengineering. He was the Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering from 2011 to 2017 at City University of Hong Kong, a tenured Full Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Founding Director of Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization (Singapore). Over his academic career, he has authored/co-authored over 800 SCI journal articles. He is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (since 2004), and by the Clarivate Analytics as 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering. His publications have been cited over thirty-thousand times and achieved an h-index of 93.
Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Cracked Engineered Metallic Materials
Prof. James C. Newman, Jr.
Dr. Jim Newman received his BS in Civil Engineering at the University of Mississippi in 1964, and his MS and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1969 and 1974, respectively, under the leadership of Professor C.W. Smith.
He previously worked at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia for 37 years. Mr. Herb Hardrath, Fatigue Branch Head, allowed Jim to become the first Fracture Mechanics expert at Langley—a newly developing field of crack mechanics. He is a member and past officer in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee E-08 on Fatigue and Fracture. Jim has been the chairman or co-chairman of 10 national or international symposia on fatigue and fracture; and has edited or co-edited 10 books (ASTM Special Technical Publications). He has over 200 publications in journals and NASA reports. In the 1970’s, he used Dr. Wolf Elber’s crack-closure concept to develop the FASTRAN life-prediction code. During the 1980’s, Dr. I.S. Raju and Jim developed stress-intensity-factor solutions for many 3D crack configurations that have become the industry standards. From 1980 to 2000, he worked on several teams to investigate problems in the Space Shuttle Transportation System (Thermal Protection System, Solid Rocket Motor, External Tank, and the Space Shuttle). During the 1990’s, he was the technical manager of fatigue and fracture research in the NASA Airframe Structural Integrity Program under the leadership of Dr. C.E. Harris.
In 2001, he retired and took a position at Mississippi State University in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. One of his major achievements at the university was to develop a world-class Fatigue and Fracture Laboratory; and he has tested a large number of metallic materials for the US Federal Aviation Administration (Drs. Dy Li and John Bakukas) and the Office of Naval Research (Dr. A. Vasudevan). In 2009, he received the Richard Johnson Chair in Aerospace Engineering, and he also became a William Giles Professor in 2010. In August 2017, he retired from the university. But he is continuing his fatigue and fracture research on metallic materials at the university.
Methodologies to compute fracture mechanics parameters (Revisiting methods to compute Stress Intensity Factors, J-Integral, T*-Integral and ∆J)
Hiroshi Okada’s has worked on the Boundary Element Method, Automobile Crash Analysis, Computational Meso-mechanics analysis such as Homogenization Method, etc. Currently, his research interests are in the field of Computational Engineering Fracture Mechanics. He has proposed efficient and accurate methodologies for the evaluations of linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics parameters from the results of finite element analysis using automatically generated mesh with the tetrahedral finite element. He and his colleagues are developing crack propagation analysis software system. He has published more than 100 archival papers in international and domestic journals. He has made a numerous international and domestic conference presentations. He was the recipient of The JACM (Japan Association for Computational Mechanics) Computational Mechanics Award and JSEM-CMD (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Computational Mechanics Division) Computational Mechanics Medal.
Quasi-conforming technique, a general and efficient assumed strain method for the development of accurate and efficient hybrid elements in linear and nonlinear solid mechanics (tentative)
Prof. Guangyu Shi
Dr. Guangyu SHI is a professor in Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, China. He worked as an assistant lecturer at Dalian University of Technology, China from 1981 to 1985 after earned a master degree in computational mechanics from the same university. In 1988 he received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Then he worked at National University of Singapore; Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore; Suzhou University, China, and joined Tianjin University in 2006. His research interests include computational solid mechanics, mechanics of composite materials, nonlinear analysis of structures, refined theories of plates and shells, modeling of porous materials, damage and fracture mechanics, smart materials and intelligent structures. He has published over 120 refereed research papers, including nonlinear hybrid stress space frame elements, assumed strain plate, shell and solid-shell elements.By using hybrid/mixed element methods, he pioneered the application of the interrelated interpolations for the edge deflection and rotation along element boundaries in the development of computational efficient and shear-locking free C0 plate and shell elements, He also pioneered the development of assumed strain nonlinear plate and shell elements. Prof. Shi is the recipient of the ICCES’97 T.H.H. Pian Medal for his contribution to complementary-energy based finite element methods for nonlinear problems.
The MPLG Method in Multiphysics and Scale Dependent Problems
Prof. Jan Sladek
Dr. Jan Sladek, researcher worker at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, received his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics at the Institute of Construction of Architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia in 1981. Now, he is in the position of the Head of the Department of Mechanics at the same institute. He is also Full Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department of Slovak Technical University and President of Slovak Society for Mechanics. His principal research area is modeling of advanced materials. He has also been a visiting professor/scholar at Cornell University, University of California (Los Angeles, Irvine), Northwestern University, Technical University of Vienna, University of Siegen (Germany), University of Gent (Belgium), Wessex Institute of Technology (U.K.) University of London, Queen Mary College, Shinshu University (Japan) and Texas Tech University (USA). He also serves for five Governmental Scientific Committees in Slovakia and editorial board of seven international journals. He has published 478 refereed papers and 7 monographs (books). His research works are cited more than 8166 (see Google scholar,http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EuDw2JcAAAAJ&hl=en). His research works have been honored many times. He has received the Prize of Slovak Academy of Sciences twice (1985, 2003) and the Prize of Slovak Literal Foundation also twice (1986, 1999). He was awarded by Aurel Stodola Prize in 2002, Eric Reissner medal in 2010 and Humboldt Prize in 2019 for his distinguished results in mechanics. In 2003 he was elected as a founding member (20 founding members) of the Learning Society of Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Multiscale Modelling from Electrons to Components
Prof. Siegfried Schmauder
Prof. Schmauder was educated in Stuttgart/Germany where he received his Diploma in Mathematics in 1981 at the University and where he finished his PhD in Materials Science in 1988 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research. Prof. Schmauder then did Postdocs at the University of Tokyo from 1989-1990 and at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 1990-1991.
He returned back to Stuttgart where he became a group leader in Structural Mechanics at the Max-Planck-Institute from 1991-1994. He was nominated as full Professor for Strength of Materials and Materials Techniques in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 1994. He published 3 books and more than 500 scientific papers.
Since 1991 he is the organizer of the annual international workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials. The next one will take place in Dubrovnik in September 2019. For more than 10 years he was co-editor of the Journal Computational Materials Science (CMS). His main research field is multiscale materials modelling from atoms to components.
He is a guest professor in Tomsk (Russia) and Tokyo (Japan) and in 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the Ovidius University in Constanca/Romania for his achievements in multiscale materials modelling.
Buckling Driven Design, Manufacturing and Performance of Steered Fiber Composites for Aerostructural Applications
Prof. Anthony M. Waas
Anthony M. Waas is the Richard A Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he holds the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate
Chair. Prior to that he was the Boeing Egtvedt Endowed Chair Professor and Department
Chair in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the
University of Washington, Seattle. Professor Waas’s research interests are: computational
modeling of lightweight composite structures, robotically manufactured aerospace
structures, 3D printing in aerospace, damage tolerance of aerospace composites,
mechanics of textile composites and data science applications in aerospace engineering.
Professor Waas was the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair Professor of Aerospace
Engineering and Director, Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan,
from 1988 to 2014, prior to joining UW in January 2015. Professor Waas is a Fellow of
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of
Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the American Society for Composites (ASC) and the
American Academy of Mechanics (AAM). He is a recipient of several best paper awards,
the 2016 AIAA/ASME SDM award, the AAM Jr. Research Award, the ASC Outstanding
Researcher Award, and several distinguished awards from the University of Michigan,
including the Stephen S. Attwood award for Excellence in Engineering, one of the highest
honors for an Engineering faculty member at the University of Michigan. He received the
AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes, jr. Award, 2017, for seminal contributions to composite
structures and materials and for mentoring students and other young professionals. In
2017, Professor Waas was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and in
2018 to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Professor Waas obtained his B.Sc in Aeronautics with First Class Honors from Imperial
College, London, 1982, the ACGI in 1982, the MS and Ph.D in Aeronautics and Applied
Mathematics (minor) from Caltech, 1983 and 1988, respectively.
Thing I Broke
Dr. Gery M. Wilkowski
Dr. Gery Wilkowski has been involved in conducting experimental and analytical pipe fracture mechanics projects since 1974. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from University of Tokyo. He has published over 400 papers and referencable reports on; oil and gas pipelines, nuclear pressure vessels and piping systems, petrochemical plant piping, and fracture toughness testing. He was involved with the technical basis of the original NRC Draft Standard Review Plan on LBB, and conducted large project on piping fracture behavior for the NRC and the International Piping Integrity Research Group Program (IPIRG). He has been a technical editor of several journals, and is an ASME Fellow since 1997. He was the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the ASME PVP Division’s Materials and Fabrication Committee for 8 years, has been a member of the ASME B&PV Code Section XI Committee since the early 1980′s, and is the current secretary of the Section XI Working Group on Pipe Flaw Evaluation since about 1990. He founded Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus in 1998 after being at Battelle-Columbus for 23 years.
He has developed the Lie-Balanced Putter System that is USGA/R&A approved, patented in 2016.
He enjoys golf, drinking beer, reading, gardening, chasing grandchildren, and drinking beer.
Study on the Mechanism of Bubble Nucleation by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Prof. Bo YuProf. Bo Yu is currently a full professor at Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (BIPT), and a distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars Program of China. He received PhD degree of Engineering Thermophysics from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1999. Before joining BIPT, Prof. Yu served as postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University (1999-2001), Special Research Associate in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (2001-2005) and full professor at China University of Petroleum-Beijing (2005-2015). His research interests mainly focus on advanced numerical methods for computational heat transfer, turbulent drag-reducing flow, heat transfer enhancement, and hot dry rock, etc. He has chaired 8 national projects including National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and more than 30 provincial projects and projects from petroleum companies. Prof. Yu has been invited to deliver keynote speeches in international/domestic conferences more than 20 times. He has published 300+articles, including 120+ refereed journal papers (SCI) as first author or corresponding author, and 2 textbooks and 2 monographs. Prof. Yu is the guest editor of one special issue in Journal of Computational Physics (JCP), and he also serves as the associate editor of Computer Modeling in Engineering & Science (CMES). In 2016, he was awarded the distinguished professor of the Nation’s Changjiang Scholars Program.
Multi-Physics CFD Simulations in a Jet Engine
Prof. Makoto Yamamoto
Dr. Makoto Yamamoto received his BS, MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1982, 1984 and 1988, respectively. He previously worked at the IHI Corporation in Tokyo as an aerodynamic design engineer of a jet engine for about 3 years. Then he joined the Tokyo University of Science in 1990. Since 2004, he has been a professor. In the university he was a dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2009 to 2010, and a vice president from 2014 to 2018. Since 1980s’, he has been investigating modeling of flow physics and its application to engineering flow problems, and recently he has been focusing on multi-physics flow problems in engineering, especially in a jet engine. Moreover, he is now challenging predictions of aneurysm rupture and surgery operations such as coiling and stenting. He published more than 200 technical papers, more than 400 proceedings papers and 19 books (in Japanese). He is a member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME), the Gas Turbine Society of Japan (GTSJ), the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES), the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (JSFM), the Japan Association of Computational Mechanics (JACM), the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He served a lot of Executive Committees of the societies, and for his distinguished works he has received 12 awards from the societies in Japan.
Semi-plenary Lectures
A 3D multi-physics boundary element computational framework for polycrystalline materials micro-mechanics (tentative)
Prof. Ivano BenedettiDr. Ivano Benedetti is currently Associate Professor of Aerospace Structuresin the Department of Engineering at the University of Palermo, Italy.
Between 2015 and 2016 he has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Between 2011 and 2013 he has been Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Aeronautics of Imperial College London, where he worked on Three-dimensional multiscale model for material degradation and failure in polycrystalline materials.
He has spent several other research stays abroad, working on numerical modelling of solids and structures and fracture mechanics.
He was awarded his PhD Degree in Aerospace Engineeringfrom the University of Pisa, Italy in 2008.
He is member of the Editorial Board of Mathematical Problems in Engineering and European Journal of Computational Mechanics. He serves as referee for several international journals.
He is member of the International Scientific Committee of theInternational Conference on Damage and Fracture Mechanicsand of the Scientific Advisory Committee of theInternational Conference on Boundary Element and Meshless techniques.
Has authored overall more than 85 scientific papers, in leading international peer reviewed journals, book chapters and national and international conference proceedings.
His research interests include: Computational modelling of materials and structures, Damage and fracture mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring, Mechanics of plates, Micromechanics, Multiscale modelling, Polycrystalline materials, Composite materials, Piezoelectric materials, FEM, BEM, fast BEM solvers.
Computational Fabrication Modelling Approaches and Damage Modeling With Examples
Dr. Frederick W. (Bud) Brust
Frederick W. (Bud) Brust joined Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus (Emc2) ten years ago as a Senior Partner after working at Battelle Columbus for 25 years where he finished as Senior Research Leader. His technical expertise includes process modeling, fracture mechanics and life prediction methods, composite materials analysis and damage assessment, probabilistic risk assessment, and nonlinear finite element solutions, high temperature creep damage assessment, and weld modeling. He is an active member of several technical societies including ASME (where he is a Technical Fellow) and serves on several Journal editorial boards. He received his M.S. in Purdue University and Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from Georgia Institute of Technology. Brust has more than 300 publications in refereed international journals, conference proceedings, and moderately reviewed articles and presentations. He holds three US and international patents.
Basic Concepts and Numerical Integration Issues in the 2D Boundary Element Implementation of Strain Gradient Elasticity Problems
Prof. Ney Augusto DumontNey Augusto Dumont is a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. He received his BS degree in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, in 1972, and the MS and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Structural Engineering at PUC-Rio, in 1973, and at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, in 1978, respectively. His research interests are in computational mechanics, numerical integration methods, variational methods, hybrid methods, FEM, BEM, fracture mechanics, time-dependent problems and gradient elasticity. He has over 150 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is Distinguished Fellow of ICCES since 2014 and was awarded in 2018 the George Green Medal by Elsevier and the Wessex Institute, UK.
Data-driven Fluid Flow Simulations by Using Convolutional Neural Network
Prof. Kazuhiko Kakuda
Dr. Kazuhiko Kakuda is a Professor in the Dept. of Mathematical Information Engineering, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University. He was born on January 26, 1958in Shizuoka-prefecture, Japan. He holds B.Eng in Mathematical Engineering, M.Eng in Architecture & Architectural Engineering and Dr. Engin Mathematical Engineering from Nihon University. His research interests include the numericalsimulations of complex fluid flow fields, the parallel computing on GPGPU, thedevelopment of the numerical methods for nonlinear problems, and deep learning. He is a councilor of the JapanSociety for Computational Methods in Engineering (JASCOME). He is a member of JSME, JSCES and so forth.He is Distinguished Fellow of ICCES since 2015.
A General Criterion for Material Instability and its Application to Creases
Prof. Bin LiuDr. Bin Liu is currently a professor at Tsinghua University in China. He got his bachelor and PhD degrees majored in mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He spent three years, from 2001 to 2004, working as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Yonggang Huang’s group at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the United States. He then visited Germany as a Humboldt research fellow and worked with Prof. Huajian Gao in Max-Plank institute from 2004 to 2005. He returned to China and joined the faculty of Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University in 2005. His research interests include multiple scales and multiple physics simulation method, fracture mechanics, and composite mechanics. He is the editorial board member of International Journal of Plasticity and Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. He has published more than 110 journal articles and 3 book chapters.
Characterisation of next generation materials for Steel Catenary Risers in the Offshore Industry
Prof. Padraic O’Donoghue
An engineer and an educator, Professor Padraic O’Donoghue has held academic positions at Irish universities for over twenty five years. In 1981, he graduated with 1st class honours in Civil Engineering from University College Cork and he obtained an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the same university the following year. Moving to the US, he pursued doctoral studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating with his Ph.D. in 1985. He then worked at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas for five years. He returned to Ireland in 1990 to take up a full-time academic position at University College Dublin. In 1997, he was appointed as Professor of Civil Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway, a position that he still holds. He expanded his role at NUI Galway when he was appointed as of Dean of Engineering and Informatics, serving for three terms (2001-2010). His major accomplishments at NUI Galway include (i) a pivotal role in the development of the new Engineering Building, (ii) restructuring and the expansion to the College of Engineering and Informatics and (iii) raising the research profile in engineering and contributing to the launch of a number of major research centres.
Professor O’Donoghue has an extensive and varied set of research interests including:
- Development and application of advanced, non-linear computational methods in structural mechanics – finite element and boundary element methods
- Development of fracture mechanics techniques under a wide variety of conditions – dynamic, static cracking and fatigue crack growth
- Assessment of damage, shock loading and impact events for a wide variety of materials
- Investigation of advanced material models including plasticity, visco-plasticity and anisotropy with applications to many metals, composites, ceramics and plastics
- Fracture mechanics analyses of a wide variety of structures including power plants, aircraft structures, gas pipelines and offshore structures
Professor O’Donoghue has published widely, including 50+ peer reviewed papers in journals and international conferences, in addition to many contributions at international conferences and symposia, workshops and universities around the world. Professor O’Donoghue has also chaired the organising committees for five prestigious international conferences – most recently an IUTAM symposium on Multi-scale Fatigue, Fracture & Damage of Materials in Harsh Environments that was held in Galway in 2017.
Numerical and analytical studies on the response of materials with microstructure
Prof. Demosthenes Polyzos
Demosthenes Polyzos is Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, Division of Applied Mechanics and Biomechanics of the University of Patras in Greece. His research activities include wave propagation phenomena in materials and structures, computational mechanics, Boundary Element Method, Meshless Methods, modeling in non-destructive testing, homogenization techniques, mechanics of materials and biomaterials with microstructural effects and computational methods in biomedical applications and bioengineering. His contribution includes 95 articles in International Refereed Journals, 24 articles in books and 124 articles in proceedings of International and National Conferences. He participated in many National and EU projects. He is recipient of P.S. Theocharis award by the Academy of Athens and S.N. Atluri medal in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to boundary element methods in general”. He is Distinguished Fellow of the International Conference in Computational and Experimental Sciences and invited speaker in many Universities, Conferences and Institutes. Currently is Vice Rector of Research and Development of the University of Patras and President of the Special Account of Research Funds and the Unit of Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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Dr. Ivatury S. RajuDuring the past four decades at NASA Langley Research Center, Dr. Raju’s research focused on Fracture Mechanics, Durability and Damage Tolerance, Composite Materials, and development of advanced Structural Analysis Methods such as Finite Element, Boundary Element, and Meshless Methods.
Dr. Raju held various positions such as Head of the Mechanics of Materials Branch in the Materials Division; Head of the Analytical and Computational Methods Branch and Senior Technologist of Structures and Materials, NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s (NESC) Structures Discipline Expert, and NASA Technical Fellow for Structures. He made significant contributions to various NASA programs such as the Aircraft Energy Efficiency, Advanced Composite Technology, Aging Aircraft, and Vehicle Systems Programs. During his career, Dr. Raju was called on to participate in many major failure investigations – 7’ x 10’ fan blade failure at Langley, Challenger SRB field joint, X-33 Composite tank failure, and the AA 587 Airbus A300-600 rudder failure. During his Tech Fellow’s position at the NESC, Dr. Raju’s work focused on finding solutions to ensure safe operations of several programs such as Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, the Ares rockets of the Constellation, and the Commercial Crew Program. Dr. Raju retired from NASA Langley in March 2017. He currently serves gratuitously as Distinguished Research Associate at NASA Langley.
Dr. Raju has a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, M.E. and Ph.D. in Aeronautical Structures, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an M.S. in Engineering Administration from the George Washington University. He participated in Program in Management Development at Harvard University. Dr. Raju is the recipient of several honors: NASA Langley’s Value Engineering Award; ICCES’s Theodore H. H. Pian Medal; Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, NESC’s MLAS Max FagetEngineering Excellence Award; ICCES’s Lifetime Achievement Award; NASA’s Exceptional Achievement andExceptional Service Medals.
Modeling of Gradient Elasticity Phenomena Using Mixed MLPG Method
Prof. Jurica Sorić
Jurica Sorić is Professor of Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. His research activities are concerned with the field of Computational Mechanics such as finite element formulations, meshless computational approaches and multiscale modeling of heterogeneous materials. He holds a Ph. D. degree from the University of Zagreb. He was awarded “Alexander von Humboldt” Fellowship (a prestigious research fellowship from Germany) and Fulbright Fellowship. He is an associate member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of Croatian Academy of Engineering. Besides, he is a member of the Board of Central European Association of Computational Mechanics (CEACM), the General Council member of International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) and the Scientific Council member of International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine (CISM). He has been honorably conferred with the Croatian Government Annual Award for Science and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award for scientific achievement in the field of technical sciences. He has been awarded ICCES Distinguished Fellow for the contributions to mechanics of shells, and to the MLPG Method. As a visiting Professor, he has done research at the universities in Germany (Ruhr-University Bochum, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU Darmstadt, Leibniz University Hannover), in Austria (Vienna University of Technology), and at the University of California Irvine, USA.
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Prof. Vladimir SladekProf. Vladimir Sladek is Vice-director and researcher at Institute of Construction and Architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Slovakia. He received his DrSc in Mechanics and Ph.D in Mechanics of Solids, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He was then assigned as Associate Professor in Mechanics at Slovak Technical University Bratislava in 1993, and professor at Technical University of Zilina at 2002. He has also been a visiting professor/scholar at Cornell University, University of California (Los Angeles, Irvine), Shinshu University, Japan, Wessex Institute of Technology. He has published 320 refereed papers and 4 books, 2 books edited, 20 chapters in 11 books. He has 2652 (WOS) + 500 (other) number of citations. His main research fields are Mechanics of solids, Computational mechanics, Boundary element method (BEM), Regularization techniques and Meshless methods. His research works have been honored many times. He has received the Prize of Slovak Academy of Sciences twice (1985, 2003) and the Prize of Slovak Literal Foundation three times (1985, 1998, 2005). He also serves as Editorial board of many journals such as Series Advances in Boundary Elements (UK), Boundary Element Communications, Int. Jour. Eng. Analysis with Boundary Elements, Communications in Numerical Analysis, Journal of Industrial Mathematics and Computational Mechanics.
A Computational Framework for the Elastic-Plastic Analysis of Cellular Micro-architected Metallic/Composite Materials
Dr. Maryam Tabatabaei 
Dr. Tabatabaei currently holds the position of research associate at the Pennsylvania State University. Her studies mainly focus on the homogenized mechanical behavior of materials to shed light on their macroscale behavior using their Micro- or Nano-features. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2013 in the field of Structural Engineering with focus on the chemistry of the formation of embryonic cracks and their propagation within a porous material. She continued her academic career and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University in 2016. During this engagement, she developed a computational framework for the elastic-plastic analysis, design, and topology optimization of cellular micro-architected metallic/composite materials.
Challenges in Modeling of Phase Interactions in Solid Liquid Phase Change (tentative)
Prof. Igor VušanovićIgor Vušanović has graduated at University of Belgrade in 1992. He earned his master degree in 1996 at University of Montenegro and PhD in 2002 at the same University. He partially work on his PhD thesis at Purdue University under the supervision of Professor Matthew J. M. Krane. He published as an author and co-author more than 50 articles in scientific peer reviewed international and domestic journals, and international scientific conferences. He organized successfully prestigious ICCES Special symposium on Meshless & Other Novel Computational Methods in 2012, and give invited talks at 5 foreign universities. Igor Vušanović has more than 26 years of professional experience in the field of energy and energy efficiency, modelling in field of materials processing, environmental engineering and thermos-technics. His research area covers: Modelling of phase change phenomena in materials processing, Heat and mass transfer in HVAC systems, advanced technics in numerical modelling, Environmental engineering and sustainable Development. His present position is a Full Professor and Dean of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at University of Montenegro.
Electromagnetic Sensing and Imaging for Biomedical Applications
Prof. Lulu Wang
Lulu Wang is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Health Science and Environmental Engineering at Shenzhen Technology University in China. She received the M.E. (First class Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees from the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, in 2009 and 2013,respectively. From 2013 to 2015, she was a Research Fellow with the Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. In June 2015, Dr. Wang became an Associate Professor of biomedical engineering with the Hefei University of Technology. In June 2019, she became a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Shenzhen Technology University. Her research interests include medical devices, electromagnetic sensing and imaging, and computational mechanics. Over the past 5 years, Dr. Wang has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 2 ASME books, 6 book chapters, and 4 issued patents. Dr. Wang is a member of ASME, IEEE, MRSNZ, AAAS, PSNZ, and IPENZ. She is an active reviewer of numerous journals, books and conferences. Dr. Wang has edited three books and two special issues of international journals. She has received multiple National and International Awards from various professional societies and organizations.
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