On the Design Process of Tensile Structures -- Systems for Lightweight Structure Design: the State-of-the-Art and Current Developments -- Recent Developments in the Analytical Design of Textile Membranes -- Finite Element Analysis of Membrane Structures -- Applications of a Rotation-Free Triangular Element for Finite Strain Analysis of Thin Shells and Membranes -- FE Analysis of Membrane System…
Design Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Systems -- Nonlinear Structural Analysis -- Nonlinear Sizing Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Nonlinear Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Nonlinear Configuration Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Numerical Implementation and Applications -- Design Parameterization -- Numerical Implementation of Sensitivity Analysis -- Design Applications.Structu…
Structural Design and Analysis -- to Structural Design -- Variational Methods of Structural Systems -- Variational Equations and Finite Element Methods -- Design Sensitivity Analysis of Linear Structural Systems -- Discrete Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Continuum Sizing Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Continuum Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Configuration Design Sensitivity Analysis.Struc…
Keynote Lectures -- Sessions Organised by the ONR (Office of Naval Research, U.S. Navy, Program Manager Dr. Y. Rajapakse) -- Modelling, Analysis and Design -- Fracture and Damage Tolerance -- Dynamics, Vibration and Sound -- Impact -- Processing and Fabrication -- NDE and Environmental Degradation -- New Materials and Materials Characterisation -- Applications and Design Solutions.Sandwich stru…
Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Scanning Probe Microscopy — Principle of Operation, Instrumentation, and Probes -- Probes in Scanning Microscopies -- Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Related Topics -- Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Dynamic Force Microscopy -- Molecular Recognition Force Microscopy -- — Measurement Techniques and Applications -- Nanotribology and Nanomec…
Two Methods for Analysis of Continuum Mechanics of Elastic Structures -- Vibrations of Inclined Bars with End Constraint -- Vibrations of Frames with Inclined Members -- Vibrations of X-Braced Portal Frames -- Vibrations of X-Braced Multi-Story Frames -- Effect of Rotatory Inertia and Shear Deformation on Vibration of Inclined Bars -- Out-of-Plane Vibrations of Plane Frames -- Buckling of Incli…
Linear Elastic Stress-Strain Relations -- Elastic Constants Based on Micromechanics -- Plane Stress -- Global Coordinate System -- Elastic Constants Based on Global Coordinate System -- Laminate Analysis — Part I -- Laminate Analysis — Part II -- Effective Elastic Constants of a Laminate -- Failure Theories of a Lamina -- to Homogenization of Composite Materials -- to Damage Mechanics of Co…
The notion of quality of a finite element solution -- The constitutive relation error method for linear problems -- Other methods for linear problems -- Principles of the comparison of the various estimators in the linear case -- Mesh adaptation for linear problems -- The constitutive relation error method for nonlinear evolution problems -- The constitutive relation error method in dynamics --…
Active Control of Structural Vibration -- Control of Ship-Mounted Cranes -- Master-Slave Bilateral Control of Hydraulic Hand for Humanitarian Demining -- Excitation and Control of Microvibro-Impact Mode for Ultrasonic Machining of Intractable Materials -- Structure-Control-Optics Interaction in High Precision Telescopes -- Acceleration Sensor Based on Diamagnetic Levitation -- Active Control St…
Session 1 -- The Contribution of Accident Investigation Research to Biomechanics -- Modeling the Effects of Blast on the Human Thorax Using High Strain Rate Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tissue -- Preliminary Analysis of Blunt Ballistic Impacts to the Abdomen -- Development of an Assessment Methodology for Lower Leg Injuries Resulting from Anti-Vehicular Blast Landmines -- Occupant Lower Leg…