Mechanics for a New Mellennium: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Chicago, Illinois, USA 27 August – 2 September 2000

The 20th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mech- ics, ICTAM 2000, took place August 27 – September 2, 2000, in the c- ference facilities of the Chicago Marriott Downtown on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Congress was invited by the US National Academy of Sciences on the recommendation of its National Comm- tee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. A consortium of university departments and programs acted as the local hosts. The undersigned served, respectively, as President and Secretary-General of the Congress. In this Proceedings volume we have attempted to capture the exci- ment of that memorable week. We have laid out the book so that it, roughly, tracks the events during the week of the Congress in much the order in which they occurred. We have given addresses and reports in context, although sometimes with embellishments to provide more data than could reasonably be presented orally. We have tried to reproduce essentials of the Opening and Closing ceremonies for the benefit of those who could not attend one or the other. We have tried to assemble an attractive volume that will have lasting value by adding an extensive name index and a briefer keyword index, and by exercising considerable care in the consistency of the layout of the full manuscripts. The international congresses of mechanics are major events of the field—we compare them to the Olympic Games in sports. Front Matter....Pages i-lxxx New Perspectives on Crack and Fault Dynamics....Pages 1-24 A Survey of and Evaluation Methodology for Fiber Composite Material Failure Theories....Pages 25-40 Damage Mechanics of Metal-matrix Composites: Various Levels of Approach....Pages 41-56 Metallic Foams: Structure, Properties, and Applications....Pages 57-74 Linear Viscoelasticity of Concentrated Emulsions....Pages 75-84 Aluminum: Approaching the New Millennium....Pages 85-98 Electromagnetic Phenomena in Steel Continuous Casting....Pages 99-112 Rail Vehicle Dynamics for the 21st Century....Pages 113-126 Fundamentals of the Lateral Dynamics of Road Vehicles....Pages 127-146 A Mechatronics Approach to Advanced Vehicle Control Design....Pages 147-164 Mixing: Kinetics and Geometry....Pages 165-180 Statistical Approach to the Mechanical Behavior of Granular Media....Pages 181-196 Damage Analysis and Prevention in Composite Materials....Pages 197-210 Electromagnetic Phenomena in Crystal Growth....Pages 211-224 Software Tools: From Multibody System Analysis to Vehicle System Dynamics....Pages 225-238 Granular Segregation in Collisional Shearing Flows....Pages 239-252 Nonlinear Composites and Microstructure Evolution....Pages 253-274 Hard Problems with Soft Materials: The Mechanics of Foams....Pages 275-288 Magnetohydrodynamic Damped Buoyancy-driven Convection....Pages 289-306 Adaptive, Nonlinear, and Learning Techniques for the Control of Vehicle Ride Dynamics....Pages 307-326 Recent Advances in Turbulent Mixing....Pages 327-344 Kinetic and Continuum Descriptions of Granular Flows....Pages 345-358 Stationary Waves in Elasto-plastic and Visco-elasto-plastic Bodies....Pages 359-372 Hierarchical Model- and Discretization-error Estimation of Elasto-plastic Structures....Pages 373-388 Laminar Boundary-layer Theory: A 20th Century Paradox?....Pages 389-412 Plasticity in the 21st Century....Pages 413-428 Heart Simulation by an Immersed Boundary Method with Formal Second-order Accuracy and Reduced Numerical Viscosity....Pages 429-444 Vortical Structure of Turbulence....Pages 445-456 Probabilistic Methods in Earthquake Engineering....Pages 457-472 Effective, Equivalent, and Apparent Properties of Heterogeneous Media....Pages 473-486 Diffusion-controlled Combustion....Pages 487-502 Nanomechanics and Micromechanics of Thin Films, Graded Coatings, and Mechanical/Nonmechanical Systems....Pages 503-504 Optimum Design of Microelectromechanical Systems....Pages 505-520 Local and Global Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics....Pages 521-540 Closing Ceremony....Pages 541-552 Back Matter....Pages 553-582

this Volume Contains The Proceedings Of The 20th International Congress Of Theoretical And Applied Mechanics, Ictam2000, Held In Chicago, Illinois, In August 2000. Full Texts Of Invited Lectures Are Included Along With A Full Program Listing And The Names Of All Delegates. Also Included Are Major Portions Of The Speeches Given At The Opening And Closing Ceremonies And The Full Text Of The Play Performed During The Opening. Comprehensive Statistics On Papers Submitted, Accepted And Presented By Nation Are Given. The Book Captures A Snapshot View Of The State-of-the-art In The Field Of Mechanics And Will Be Invaluable To Engineers And Scientists From A Variety Of Disciplines With Interest In The Mechanical Sciences.

The dynamics of cracking and faulting has seen much recent progress, with implications for structural mechanics, materials physics, tribology, and seismology. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Chicago, USA, 27 August-2 September 2000