Mechanics Down Under

Preface Acknowledgments Congress Statistics The Scientific Program Lectures and Mini-symposium papers Material instabilities in elastic and plastic solids: the perturbative approach; D. Bigoni Modelling strain localization by cohesive (overlapping) zones in tension (compression): brittleness size effects and scaling in material properties; A. Carpinteri and M. Paggi Multi-scale analysis of polycristalline metals and composites; J.-L. Chaboche Micro-architectured solids: from blast resistant structures to morphing wings; N.A. Fleck Plasto-mechanics of large deformation under impact loading; N. K. Gupta Onset of oscillatory thermocapillary convection; W.R. Hu and Z.M. Tang Instabilities of flows through deformable tubes and channels; O.E. Jensen Surface bubbles in micro- and nanofluidics; B. Borkent and D. Lohse Bridged and cohesive crack models for fracture in composite materials; R. Massabo Relaxation to steady vortical flows - and knots in the quark-gluon plasma; H.K. Moffatt Instabilities across the scales: Simple models for shear banding, plate subduction and mantle convection in geodynamics; H.-B. Muhlhaus, L. Moresi, M. Davies, K. Gottschald and Al. Hale From dry granular flows to submarine avalanches; M. Pailha, M. Nicolas and O. Pouliquen Failure of Rocks in the Laboratory and in the Earth; J.W. Rudnicki Modeling of Bone Failure by Cohesive Zone Models; T. Siegmund, M. R. Allen, D. B. Burr The Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines; J.N. Sorensen, R. Mikkelsen, N. Troldborg, V.L. Okulov, W.Z. Shen Cohesive-zone modeling of adhesive joints; M.D. Thouless Author Index