| Wednesday, 9th May 2007 |
| 8.30 – 8.40: |
Opening Ceremony & Welcome Address
M. D. Gilchrist & A. Buttimer-Broberg (Dublin) |
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| SESSION A: |
Co-chairmen:
P. Ståhle (Malmö University & Lund Institute of Technology)
& D. Taylor (Trinity College Dublin) |
| 8.40 – 9.00: |
B. Seymour & M. Mortell (University College Cork)
Nonlinear acoustic resonance in a spherical shell |
| 9.00 – 9.20: |
S. Kao-Walter (Blekinge Institute of Technology)
Fracture mechanics of materials: From steel to packaging material |
| 9.20 – 9.40: |
Ph. Boulanger & M. A. Hayes (University College
Dublin)
A note on maximum shear strain |
| 9.40 – 10.00: |
G. Lindgren (Lund Institute of Technology)
Stochastic
models for ocean waves – exact and approximate results with safety
implications |
10.00 – 10.30:
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Coffee Break
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| 10.30 – 10.50: |
Ph. Boulanger (Free University of Brussels), M. Destrade
& M. A. Hayes
Circularly polarized "longitudinal"
plane waves in special anisotropic elastic media |
| 10.50 – 11.10: |
J. M. Golden (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Phase
transitions in materials with thermal memory |
| 11.10 – 11.30: |
P. Hansson & S. Melin (Lund University)
Overload
effects on short fatigue crack growth |
| 11.30 – 11.50: |
D. Weaire (Trinity College Dublin)
The mechanics
of liquid foams |
| 11.55 – 12.40: |
Plenary Lecture: J. R. Rice
(Harvard University)
Modern fracture dynamics in relation to critical
contributions by K. Bertram Broberg |
12.40 – 14.00:
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Luncheon
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| SESSION B: |
Co-chairmen:
P. O’Donoghue (NUI-Galway)
& G. Lindgren (Lund Institute of
Technology) |
| 14.00 – 14.20: |
A. Norris (Rutgers University)
A multiple scales
approach to crack front wave problems |
| 14.20 – 14.40: |
D. Taylor (Trinity College Dublin)
The fracture
mechanics of bone |
| 14.40 – 15.00: |
P. Ståhle (Malmö University & Lund University)
& L. Banks-Sills
Growth of cortical bone controlled by strain
driven diffusion |
15.00 – 15.30:
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Coffee Break
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| 15.30 – 15.50: |
M. Forero & M. D. Gilchrist (University College Dublin)
Risk assessment and biomechanics analysis of falls from playground climbing
frames |
| 15.50 – 16.10: |
P. Löwenhielm (Lund University)
Accident
or murder – biomechanical evaluation of a questioned death |
| 16.10 – 16.30: |
M. Brokate & D. Rachinskii (University College Cork)
Stability of periodically forced Armstrong – Frederick model |
16.30 – 17.00:
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Poster Papers + Drinks Reception
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E. Byrne, M.A. McCarthy, S.A.M. Tofail & A. Hasnaoui
(University of Limerick)
Modelling the mechanical behaviour of carbon
nanotubes and nanocomposites |
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N. Colgan & M. D. Gilchrist (University College Dublin)
Automated hexahedral meshing of biological structures from MRI images
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W. Doherty, A. Reynolds & D. Kennedy (Dublin Institute
of Technology)
Techno-economic modelling of biomass gasification
integrated with advanced power systems |
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R. M. Frizell, C. T. McCarthy & M. A. McCarthy (University
of Limerick)
Failure analysis of jointed fibre metal laminate structures
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A. Keane, C. McCarthy & N. O’Dowd (University
of Limerick)
Prediction of bulk composite material properties through
the use of numerical homogenisation techniques |
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S. Kiernan, L. Cui & M. Gilchrist (University College
Dublin)
Material modelling of salient helmet features: Towards an
improved level of head impact protection |
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R. M. Nestor & N. J. Quinlan (NUI-Galway)
Higher order implementation of the mesh-free finite volume particle
method for viscous flow |
| 17.00 – 18.00: |
Open Forum Discussions / AGMs (all welcome):
Irish Mechanics Society
Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation
Swedish National Committee for Mechanics
Broberg Symposia |
| 19.15: |
Coach pickup from Montrose Hotel to restaurant |
| 19.30 – 22.00: |
Dinner |
| 22.15: |
Coach pickup from restaurant and return to Montrose Hotel |
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| Thursday, 10th May 2007 |
| SESSION C: |
Co-chairmen:
A. Ivankovic (University College Dublin)
& S. Melin (Lund Institute
of Technology) |
| 8.40 – 9.00: |
M. Gilchrist (University College Dublin) & C. McCarthy
The mechanics of Mode I cutting of soft solids |
| 9.00 – 9.20: |
N. O’Dowd (University of Limerick), M. Gallegillo
& E. Busso
A mechanistic approach to the simulation of high
speed metal cutting |
| 9.20 – 9.40: |
U. Hejman (Malmö University), P. Ståhle &
C. Bjerkén
Experiment and simulation of a crack growing by
material dissolution |
| 9.40 – 10.00: |
J. Murphy (Dublin City University)
The modelling
of almost incompressible elastic materials |
10.00 – 10.30:
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Coffee Break
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| 10.30 – 10.50: |
J. Walsh, M. Schöpfer & C. Childs (University
College Dublin)
2D distinct element modeling of the structure and growth of geological faults
in multilayer sequences |
| 10.50 – 11.10: |
L. Cui (University College Dublin) & C. O’Sullivan
Analysis of the triaxial tests using a mixed boundaries virtual environment
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| 11.10 – 11.30: |
C. McCarthy, R. O’Higgins & M. McCarthy (University
of Limerick)
A three-dimensional damage model for composites with nonlinear shear behaviour
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| 11.30 – 11.50: |
F. Nilsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Large deformation aspects on some methods for experimental cohesive zone
law determination |
| 11.55 – 12.40: |
Plenary Lecture: G. I. Barenblatt
(University of California, Berkeley)
Incomplete similarity &
renormalization group in continuum mechanics |
12.40 – 14.00:
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Luncheon
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| SESSION D: |
Co-chairmen:
N. O’Dowd (University of Limerick)
& F. Nilsson (Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm) |
| 14.00 – 14.20: |
P. Olsson (Lund Institute of Technology)
Atomistic tensile and bending simulations of BCC-iron nanowires
and nanobeams |
| 14.20 – 14.40: |
E. O’Brien (UCD Dublin), C. Caprani, A. González,
Y. Li, P. Rattigan & N. Harris
Bridge vehicle dynamic interaction |
| 14.40 – 15.00: |
A. Ivankovic (University College Dublin)
Cracks in pressurised PE plastic pipes |
15.00 – 15.30:
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Coffee Break
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| 15.30 – 15.50: |
M. Schöpfer, S. Abe & C. Childs (University
College Dublin)
Porosity and friction angle relationships in Discrete Element
Method (DEM) models of cohesive granular materials |
| 15.50 – 16.10: |
M. Stec & J. Faleskog (Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm)
Micromechanical modeling of grain boundary resistance to cleavage
fracture propagation |
| 16.10 – 16.30: |
J. N. Flavin (NUI Galway)
Nonlinear stability estimates for a Lotka-Volterra system of reaction–diffusion
equations |
| 16.30: |
Concluding Remarks: Anders Lundström
(Scania) |