Tracks and mini-symposia

Track 1: Medalist Symposia

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

Track 2: Biomechanics and Biomaterials

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

Track 3: Machine Learning and Multiscale Simulations

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

Track 4: Robotics

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

Track 5: Soft Matter and Electronics

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

Track 6: Metamaterials and Architected Materials

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

Track 7: Advances in Manufacturing

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

Track 8: Instability and Failure of Materials

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

Track 9: Mechanics of Materials and Structures

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

Track 10: Fluid Mechanics and Granular Media

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