Abstracts

The Society of Engineering Science is now accepting Abstracts for the 56th Annual Meeting, to be held on October 13-15, 2019, on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

Conference Highlights

Professor Paul C. Paris

Paul C. Paris, longtime professor of mechanical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, died Jan. 15, 2017, of natural causes at age 86. He was known for many things, but one of the most remarkable is the equation he developed relating repeated mechanical loads to crack growth.

Known as Paris’ law, the equation predicts how fast a structural crack will grow in response to repeated cycles of stress, thus providing a reliable, theory-driven estimate of a machine part’s life.

His paper on the equation was published in 1961, but only after it was first rejected by three of the leading journals in the fracture mechanics field. Paris’ law now is routinely used to design parts that vibrate, such as in commercial and military aircraft and ground vehicles.

His work created the basis for new analytical methods to address fatigue crack problems, which are still widely used to assess safety problems in an array of devices and structures where cracks pose a significant safety or economic concern.

His insights on fracture mechanics continue to set the standard in engineering education worldwide.

Tracks & Symposia

Track 1: Medals Symposia
Track 2: Paul C. Paris Symposium
Track 3: Engineering in Life Sciences
Track 4: Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena
  • 4.1 Biological and bio-inspired fluid mechanics
    Chairs: H. Fu, University of Utah; A. Ardekani, Purdue University; H. Masoud, Michigan Technological University
  • 4.2 Flow and transport in porous media
    Chairs: J. Fan, City College of New York; D. Wen, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • 4.3 Theory and Applications (Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena)
    Chairs: G.Genin, Washington University in St. Louis; S. Keten, Northwestern University; S. Lake, Washington University in St. Louis
Track 5: Frontiers in Engineering Science
Track 6: Granular Materials and Geomechanics
  • 6.1 Multiscale and multiphysics computations in geomechanics
    Chairs: K. Bennett, Los Alamos National Laboratory; H. Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory; J. Morris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; E. Rougier, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 6.2 Multi-scale mechanics of granular media
    Chairs: D. Henann, Brown University; A. Misra, University of Kansas; K. Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; R. Parthasarathy, Tennessee State University; P. Poorsolhjouy, Purdue University and Graz University of Technology
  • 6.3 Theory and Applications (Granular Materials and Geomechanics)
    Chairs: G.Genin, Washington University in St. Louis; S. Keten, Northwestern University; S. Lake, Washington University in St. Louis
Track 7: Mechanics and Physics of Materials
  • 7.1 Self-healing structural materials
    Chair: N. Rahbar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • 7.2 Functional soft composites – Design, mechanics, and manufacturing
    Chairs: R. Zhao, The Ohio State University; T. Zhang, Syracuse University; N. Bouklas, Cornell University; L. Wang, Stony Brook University; A. Sutradhar, The Ohio State University
  • 7.3 Mechanics and physics of soft materials
    Chairs: S. Rudykh, University of Wisconsin-Madison; S. Cai, University of California, San Diego; N. Cohen, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; S. Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology; M. Silberstein, Cornell University
    Other Co-Organizers: S.H. Kang, John Hopkins University; Q. Wang, University of Southern California; Y. Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology; O. Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; X. Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; L. Jin, University of California Los Angeles; C. Linder, Stanford University; M. Koslowski, Purdue University; J. El-Awady, Johns Hopkins University; R.M. McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara
Track 8: Nanomechanics
  • 8.2 Mechanics of deformable atomically-thin materials
    Chairs: S.W. Nam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B. Xu, University of Virginia; Dibakar Datta, New Jersey Institute of Technology; S. Ghosh, Michigan Technological University
  • 8.3 Mechanics of nanomaterials and nanocomposites
    Chairs: W. Gu, Stanford University; X. Li, Tsinghua University; Z. Hossain, University of Delaware
  • 8.4 Theory and simulation of nanomaterials
    Chairs: P. Suryanarayana, Georgia Institute of Technology; A. Banerjee, University of California, Los Angeles; S. Ghosh, California Institute of Technology
  • 8.5 Theory and Applications (Nanomechanics)
    Chairs: G.Genin, Washington University in St. Louis; S. Keten, Northwestern University; S. Lake, Washington University in St. Louis
Track 9: Structural Mechanics, Metamaterials and Manufacturing
Late-Breaking Posters Track

Do you have late-breaking research to share with SES 2019? Choose a symposium  from above to be included in that symposium’s poster session. Submit submit via the “Late-Breaking Posters Track.” Poster abstracts are due September 3rd.

NSF CMMI-MOMS Poster Track

For NSF-MOMS-supported PIs only. MOMS PIs are asked to submit poster abstracts to the CMMI-MOMS Track using the Abstract Submission Instructions. Deadline September 03, 2019.

2nd Annual Mechanobiology Symposium and Pre-Conference

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NSF MOMS at SES

The NSF grantees’ meeting hosted by the  Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) Program is at SES 2019! Learn more.

Late-Breaking Research Posters Track

Do you have late-breaking research to share with SES 2019? Choose a symposium  from above to be included in that symposium’s poster session.

Symposia Submission

We have welcomed proposals for individual sessions and for multi-session symposia. Each session can have five 20-minute talks, or one 40-minute keynote and three additional 20-minute talks.

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