Mechanics of the 21st Century : Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 15-21 August 2004 /
edited by Witold Gutkowski, Tomasz A. Kowalewski.
- Dordrecht : Springer, 2005.
- lxxiii, 421 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +
Includes bibliographical references.
Conference papers included in the print volume: Interplay between air and water / Leen van Wijngaarden -- Stochastic dynamics of engineering systems / Kazimierz Sobczyk -- Multibody dynamics: bridging for multidisciplinary applications / Jorge A.C. Ambrósio -- Rapid formation of strong gradients and diffusion in the transport of scalar and vector fields / Konrad Bajer -- Wave-vortex interactions in the atmosphere, and climate prediction / Onno Bokhove -- Near-critical point hydrodynamics and microgravity / Daniel A. Beysens -- Flaw tolerant nanstructures of biological materials / Huajian Gao ... [et al.] -- Transport and mixing in the atmosphere / Peter H. Haynes -- Variational and multiscale methods in turbulence / Thomas J.R. Hughes ... [et al.] -- Mechanics of thin film structures / Henrik Myhre Jensen -- Nonlinear dynamics in ocean engineering / Edwin J. Kreuzer, Wolfgang M. Sichermann -- A bridge between the micro- and mesomechanics of laminates: fantasy or reality? / Pierre Ladevèze -- Turbulence and large-eddy simulations / Marcel R. Lesieur -- Nano mechanical analysis of IFM force profiles on self-assembled monlayers / Mingji Wang ... [et al.] -- Collisional granular flows with and without gas interactions in microgravity / Michel Y. Louge, Haitao Xu -- Probability phenomena in perturbed dynamical systems / Anatoly Neishtadt -- Mechanics of rubberlike solids / Ray W. Ogden -- Elastic wave propagation development for structural health monitoring / Wiesław Ostachowicz -- On the damoing of a piezoelectric truss / Andre Preumont -- Strength of nanostructures / Rodney S. Ruoff, Nicola M. Pugno -- Micromechanics of cells / Erich Sackmann, Adnreas Reuther, Doris Heinrich -- Elastic interactions of biological cells / Samuel A. Safran, A. Nicolas, U.S. Schwarz -- Electrokinetic flow instabilities in microfluidic systems / Hao Lin, Michael H. Oddy, Juan G. Santiago -- Molecular mechanics of cytoskeletal components / M. Atakhorrami ... [et al.] -- Topics in astrophysical fluid dynamics / Edward A. Spiegel -- Miniaturization of explosive technology and microdetonics / D. Scott Stewart -- Foams in microgravity / Denis Weaire, Simon Cox.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM04, held in Warsaw, in August 2004. Full texts of 27 invited lectures are included along with a CD-ROM with 1225 extended summaries of presented papers. The book captures a snapshot view of the state-of-the-art in the field of contemporary mechanics and will be invaluable to engineers and scientists from a variety of disciplines with interest in the mechanical sciences. The importance of the influence of contemporary mechanics on other branches of sciences becomes evident by browsing through over 60 areas of interest selected as subjects of mini-symposia and pre-nominated sessions. The book gives clear evidence that ...the progress we have achieved together definitely places mechanics on one of the very top locations in the hierarchy of modern research disciplines, with tremendous impact on both our perception of the physical world and the means to implement new technologies so much improving the quality of our life. (M. Kleiber, Opening Speech).