Mechanics for a New Millennium : Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Held in Chicago, 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. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Opening ceremony......Page 16 Program at a glance......Page 36 Scientific program......Page 44 JAMES R. RICE: New perspectives on crack and fault dynamics......Page 86 RICHARD M. CHRISTENSEN: A survey of and evaluation methodology for fiber composite material failure theories......Page 110 JEAN-LOUIS CHABOCHE: On constitutive and damage modeling in metal matrix composites......Page 126 LORNA J. GIBSON: Metallic foams: Structure, properties, and applications......Page 142 MARTIN NEMER, JERZY BLAWZDZIEWICZ, and MICHAEL LOEWENBERG: Linear viscoelasticity of concentrated emulsions......Page 160 PETER A. DAVIDSON: Aluminum: Approaching the new millennium......Page 170 TAKEHIKO TOH and EIICHI TAKEUCHI: Electromagnetic phenomena in steel continuous casting......Page 184 RONALD J. ANDERSON, JOHN A. ELKINS, and BARRIE V. BRICKLE: Rail vehicle dynamics for the 21st century......Page 198 ROBIN S. SHARP: Fundamentals of the lateral dynamics of road vehicles......Page 212 MASATO ABE and J. KARL HEDRICK: A mechatronics approach to advanced vehicle control system design......Page 232 EMMANUEL VILLERMAUX: Mixing: Kinetics and geometry......Page 250 STÉPHANE ROUX and FARHANG RADJAÏ: Statistical approach to the mechanical behavior of granular media......Page 266 GEORGE J. DVORAK: Damage analysis and prevention in composite materials......Page 282 JOHN S. WALKER: Electromagnetic phenomena in crystal growth......Page 296 WILLI KORTÜM, WERNER O. SCHIEHLEN, and MARTIN ARNOLD: Software tools: From multibody system analysis to vehicle system dynamics......Page 310 MICHEL Y. LOUGE, JAMES T. JENKINS, HAITAO XU, AND BIRGIR Ö. ARNARSON: Granular segregation in collisional shearing flows......Page 324 PEDRO PONTE CASTAÑEDA and PIERRE SUQUET: Nonlinear composites and microstructure evolution......Page 338 DENIS L. WEAIRE and STEFAN HUTZLER: Hard problems with soft materials: The mechanics of foams......Page 360 HAMDA BENHADID: Magnetohydrodynamic damped buoyancy-driven convection......Page 374 TIMOTHY J. GORDON: Adaptive, nonlinear, and learning techniques for the control of vehicle ride dynamics......Page 392 PAUL E. DIMOTAKIS: Recent advances in turbulent mixing......Page 412 ISAAC GOLDHIRSCH: Kinetic and continuum descriptions of granular flows......Page 430 VLADIMIR A. PALMOV: Stationary waves in elasto–plastic and visco–elasto–plastic bodies......Page 444 ERWIN STEIN, STEPHAN OHNIMUS, and MARCUS RÜTER: Hierarchical model- and discretization-error estimation of elasto-plastic structures......Page 458 STEPHEN J. COWLEY: Laminar boundary-layer theory: A 20th century paradox......Page 474 ERIK VAN DER GIESSEN: Plasticity in the 21st century......Page 498 DAVID M. MCQUEEN AND CHARLES S. PESKIN: Heart simulation by an immersed boundary method with formal second-order accuracy and reduced numerical viscosity......Page 514 SHIGEO KIDA: Vortical structure of turbulence......Page 530 R. NARAYANA IYENGAR: Probabilistic methods in earthquake engineering......Page 542 GEDEON DAGAN: Effective, equivalent, and apparent properties of heterogeneous media......Page 558 AMABLE LIÑÁN: Diffusion-controlled combustion......Page 572 SUBRA SURESH: Nanomechanics and micromechanics of thin films, graded coatings, and mechanical/nonmechanical systems......Page 588 OLE SIGMUND: Optimum design of microelectromechanical systems......Page 590 H. KEITH MOFFATT: Local and global perspectives in fluid dynamics......Page 606 Closing ceremony......Page 626 List of attendees......Page 638 List of exhibitors......Page 646 Index......Page 648

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.