The technical program for the 7th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics is built upon topical minisymposia that provide a flexible format for accommodating the great breadth and depth of technical subjects that constitutes Computational Mechanics as a whole. The mini-symposium provides the opportunity for individuals to organize one or more sessions tailored for a specific research area, such as nanotechnology, computational biology/biomechanics, and multi-scale methods.

The technical program will be structured around a number of special minisymposia, with ample room for contributed papers on computational methodologies and applications in the following areas:

Computational Methods:

Finite Element Formulations, Boundary Element Formulations, Meshfree (Element Free) Methods, Particle Methods; Adaptive Techniques, Multi-Scale Methods (Macro-Micro and Nanomechanics), Coupled Multi-Field Problems; Nonlinear Solvers, Coupled Solvers, Parallel Computing, Domain Decomposition Methods; Computational Mathematics, Symbolic Computation, Numerical Optimization, Inverse Methods; Nonlinear Dynamics and Control.

Application Areas:

Structural Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Acoustics, Materials Engineering, Deterioration Mechanics; Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Mechanics, Electromagnetics, Stochastic Systems and Probabilistic Mechanics, System Identification and Damage Detection, Coupled Problems in Environmental Sciences, Geophysics, Geomechanics, Biomechanics; Visualization, CAD-CAE and Integrated System Engineering, Commercial Finite Element Software.