Dear colleagues,

We’d like to invite you to submit an abstract (https://submissions.usnctam2022.org/) to Mini-symposium 335 « Instabilities in Solids and Structures » at the 19th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM), to be held in Austin, Texas from June 19 to 24, 2022. This conference will be in-person or postponed to next year if that’s not possible (i.e. no virtual format).

The deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2022. Note that each presenter can give up to two talks.

This symposium aims to bring together researchers interested in instability phenomena, from a broad variety of application areas within the context of solids and structures, in order to exchange knowledge and ideas on theory, modeling, and experimentation in this vital and timely area of investigation. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

•    Structural instabilities
•    Instabilities and failure in composite materials
•    Theoretical developments and computational algorithms in bifurcation and stability analysis 
•    Instabilities in architected materials
•    Localization and failure in nano- and micro-structured solids
•    Surface instabilities
•    Instabilities in soft matter and active materials

Hope to see you in Austin!

Organizers
Stavros Gaitanaros, Johns Hopkins University
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kostas Danas, École Polytechnique
Dennis Kochmann, ETH Zurich
Ryan Elliott, University of Minnesota