Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation

This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention to the objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands. It is one of the RILEM educational courses. In 2014 it attracted 21 participants from 9 European countries.
In 2015, attendance of the course can be combined with participation in CIVIL-COMP 2015 (15th Int. Conf. on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing), which takes place in the same building of the Czech Technical University in Prague on September 1-4. On top of that, on Saturday, September 5, you can watch the Birell Grand Prix, a night race downtown Prague with up to 9000 runners (you can even be one of them …).

More info: mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2015.html

Short Course on Mechanics of Random and Fractal Media

Polish Association for Computational Mechanics and Poznan University of Technology are organizing

Short Course on Mechanics of Random and Fractal Media

The course will be delivered by Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and will take place at Poznan University of Technology on 25-26 June 2015.

All who are interested in Mechanics of Random and Fractal Media or would like to deepen their knowledge about it are kindly invited to participate in the course.

Further details are contained in the attached Announcement and on the website:

http://www.ptmkm.pl/course

Deadline for registration to the course: May 31, 2015

Please circulate this information to colleagues potentially interested in participating in the MRFM Course.

We would be delighted to welcome you to Poznań.

Yours sincerely,

Mieczysław Kuczma
President of PACM