Contributions may address issues along the general topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Time-dependent mechanics
· Visco-elasticity, visco-plasticity, visco-damage, etc.
· Metals and metallic alloys, e.g. effect of interfaces (grain boundaries / inclusions), phase transformation, texture evolution in polycrystals, etc.
· Polymers and related composites, e.g. finite strain constitutive equations, response upon complex and / or cyclic loading, strain-induced structural evolution, ageing, etc.
· Dynamic behavior of solid materials
· Complex fluids dynamics, e.g. polymeric fluids (polymer-induced drag reduction flows, etc.), foams, suspensions, etc.
· Rheology and processing of complex fluids, e.g. extrusion, injection molding, etc.
- Coupled mechanics
· Smart and multi-functional materials, e.g. coupling with electrical and magnetic effects (electro-active / magneto-active polymers and composites, electro-rheological/magneto-rheological fluids, piezoceramics, etc.)
· Shape memory alloys (coupling with temperature / diffusion/chemistry)
· Coupled multi-physics phenomena (e.g. thermo-mechanical, chemo-mechanical, etc.)
- Multi-scale modeling
· Homogenization-based modeling (theoretical and computational homogenization)
· Effective transport / property coefficients determination (viscosity, diffusivity, etc.)
· Atomistic and ab initio modeling
· Inverse problems and optimization in multi-scale mechanics
- Damage, fracture and f
· Damage constitutive modeling
· Fracture at low-stress triaxiality
· Damage characterization and fracture analysis
· Multi-axial experiments
· Lifetime predictions
- Instrumentation and measurements at macro-scale
· Full-field kinematics measurements
· Heterogeneous tests
· Model identification
- Nano and micro-scale experiments
· In-situ observation at different scales (microscopy and diffraction)
· Microrheology, microfluidics of complex fluids
· Nanocomposite structure
