Tracks and mini-symposia

Track 1: Medalist and Special Symposia

  • 1.1: Prager Medalist Symposium. Learn More
  • 1.2: Y. Huang Engineering Science Medalist Symposium. Learn More
  • 1.3: A. C. Eringen Medalist Symposium. Learn More
  • 1.4: G. I. Taylor Medalist Symposium. Learn More
  • 1.5: SES Honorary Symposium Learn More
  • 1.6: Three Decades of Multifunctional Mechanics: A Symposium in Honor of the 65th Birthday of Professor Dimitris Lagoudas. Learn More
  • 1.7: 2nd Future Faculty Symposium. Learn More

Track 2: Biomechanics and Biomaterials

  • 2.1: Emergent Behavior in Active Matter. Learn More
  • 2.2: AI for Mechanobiology, Bioinspiration and Biomaterial Innovation via Materiomics. Learn More
  • 2.3: Structure and Mechanics of Living and Bioinspired Materials. Learn More
  • 2.4: Brain Physics and Mechanics in Health and Disease. Learn More
  • 2.5: Tissue Mechanics Across Time and Length Scales. Learn More

Track 3: Machine Learning and Multiscale Simulations

  • 3.1: Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning of Soft Matter and Hierarchical Materials. Learn More
  • 3.2: Data-Driven Methods for Complex Mechanical Systems and Materials. Learn More
  • 3.3: Integration of Machine Learning and Multiscale Modeling for Complex Materials and Structures. Learn More
  • 3.4: Theoretical and Computational Advances in Modeling Materials Across Scales. Learn More
  • 3.5: Advances in Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter, Polymers and Network Materials. Learn More
  • 3.6: Data-driven methods for inelastic solids and structures. Learn More
  • 3.7: Generative AI in Mechanics, Materials, & Manufacturing Education. Learn More

Track 4: Robotics

  • 4.1: Mechanics, Materials, and Robotics for Intelligent Infrastructure. Learn More
  • 4.2: Soft Robotics: Matter, Structure, and Intelligence. Learn More
  • 4.3: Materials, Mechanics, Manufacturing, and Applications of Soft Electronics. Learn More

Track 5: Soft Matter and Electronics

  • 5.1: Design, fabrication, and mechanics of entangled systems beyond the molecular scale. Learn More
  • 5.2: Mechanics and Multiphysics of Soft Network Materials: From Microstructure to Function. Learn More
  • 5.3: Coupled mechanics of soft materials. Learn More
  • 5.4: Mathematical Methods and Models in the Continuum Mechanics of Soft Materials. Learn More
  • 5.5: Multiphysics mechanics of soft solids. Learn More
  • 5.6: Functional Soft Composites – Design, Mechanics, and Manufacturing. Learn More
  • 5.7: Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials. Learn More

Track 6: Metamaterials and Architected Materials

  • 6.1: Advances on the Mechanics of Architected Materials. Learn More
  • 6.2: Controlling Mechanical Waves with Metamaterials. Learn More
  • 6.3: Morphing Matter: Bioinspiration, Computational Design, Fabrication, Mechanics, and Sustainability. Learn More
  • 6.4: Direct Ink Writing of Structural and Functional Materials. Learn More
  • 6.5: AI/ML for Architected Materials. Learn More
  • 6.6: Programmable Material Systems: Integration of Mechanics, Design and Manufacturing. Learn More

Track 7: Advances in Manufacturing

  • 7.1: Mutli-material Joining in Automotive Structures. Learn More
  • 7.2: ML-assisted 3D printing for biomedical applications. Learn More
  • 7.3: AI-driven design for advanced additive manufacturing. Learn More
  • 7.4: Additive Manufacturing—Methods, Materials, and Mechanics. Learn More
  • 7.5: Advanced manufacturing driven by solid-liquid interactions. Learn More

Track 8: Instability and Failure of Materials

  • 8.1: Mechanics of damage, fracture and friction in materials across scales. Learn More
  • 8.2: Instabilities in imperfection sensitive structures: from shell buckling to functionality. Learn More
  • 8.3: Surficial and Interfacial Mechanics. Learn More
  • 8.4: Bioinspired self-healing structural and thermal materials. Learn More
  • 8.5: Mechanics of soft interfaces: deformation, adhesion, fracture, and friction. Learn More
  • 8.6: Recent advances in theoretical and computational modeling of fracture and fatigue. Learn More

Track 9: Mechanics of Materials and Structures

  • 9.1: Advances in Experimental Mechanics. Learn More
  • 9.2: Mechanics of Energetic Materials. Learn More
  • 9.3: Mechanics in Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Systems. Learn More
  • 9.4: Mechanics of Multilayered Nanostructures: Challenges in Multiscale Modeling, Design and Fabrication. Learn More
  • 9.5: Advances in Microscopic Ballistics for Extreme Materials Science and Mechanics. Learn More
  • 9.6: Topological heterogeneity and mechanical behavior in network materials. Learn More
  • 9.7: Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics. Learn More
  • 9.8: High Entropy Alloys and Metallic Glasses: Linking Local Structures to Mechanical and Physical Properties. Learn More
  • 9.9: Mechanical Behavior and Strain Engineering of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials. Learn More
  • 9.10: Nonlinear Coupled Field Theories in Solid Mechanics. Learn More
  • 9.11: Heterogenous Materials across Disciplines. Learn More

Track 10: Fluid Mechanics and Granular Media

  • 10.1: Mechanics of Granular Media: Experiments, Theory, and Modeling. Learn More
  • 10.2: Multiphase and non-Newtonian flows. Learn More