MINUTES OF THE
Committee ON Computing in Applied Mechanics (CONCAM)
ASME Applied Mechanics Division
12:00 Noon
Monday June 24, 2002
14th USNCTAM
Blacksburg, VA

Present:  Florin Bobaru, David Benson, T.R. Chandrupatla, Jacob Fish, Jean-Francois Molinari, Lorraine Olson, Nick Salomon

1.  The minutes of the November 12, 2001 meeting at IMECE in New York were approved.

2. Proposed Symposia:

(A) 2002 ASME IMECE
November 17-22, New Orleans, LA

-Modeling and Experiments on Micro/Nano Systems
Organized by Junghoo Lee, J.S. Chen, W.K. Liu and T. Belytschko 2 sessions from CONCAM
AMD-1 Wednesday 7:45 AM 4 talks
AMD-2 Wednesday 9:30 AM 4 talks
2 sessions from the Nano Track
TNANO-4 Monday 9:30 AM
TNANO-5 Monday 11:15 AM
1 session from Fluids
1 session requested from MEMS

- Advances in Boundary Elements
Organized by G. Paulino and S. Mukherjee
2 sessions from CONCAM
AMD-3 Wednesday 11:15 AM 4 talks
AMD-5 Wednesday 3:45 PM 4 talks


(B) 2003 ASME IMECE
November 16-21, Washington, DC

-Modeling and Design of Functionally Graded Materials Organized by J. N. Reddy, F. Bobaru, and G. Paulino 3 sessions requested

-Advances in Numerical Modeling of Structural Failures Organized by A. Pifko and H. Levine 3 sessions requested:
1) Innovative modeling of structural failure mechanisms
2) Material modeling through failure
3) Examples and applications of failure simulations

(C) 2004 ASME IMECE
November 14-19, Anaheim, CA

-symposia proposals invited
 

3. Other Relevant Congresses

(A) USNCCM VII Fourth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
July 27 - August 1, 2003 Albuquerque, NM http://www.esc.sandia.gov/usnccm.html
Jacob Fish is a co-chair of this congress.  Members are urged to consider submitting proposals for mini-symposia.  There will also be a short course on verification and validation.

(B) WCCM VI Sixth World Congress on Computational Mechanics
September 5-10, 2004 Beijing, China http://www.wccm6-apcom04.org.cn/

The General Chairman of this meeting is Professor Mingwu Yuan.  CONCAM committee members and friends are welcome to organize symposia for this meeting.  Please contact Professor Yuan: yuanmw@pku.edu.cn

4. Report of the Honors Sub-Committee.  The honors sub-committee (Pat Smolinski) reported that a number of fellow nominations are in process.

5. Membership Matters.  Jean-Francois Molinari indicated that he is interested in helping organize symposia with colleagues, and would be willing to work with the honors sub-committee as well.

6. Announcements.  Nick Salomon highlighted the 39th Annual Technical Meeting of the SES. 

7. Place and date of the next meeting. 
2002 ASME IMECE
November 17-22, New Orleans, LA

8. Meeting Adjourned.