Mechanics Down Under

Preface Acknowledgments Sectional Lectures and Mini-symposium Papers Material Instabilities in Elastic and Plastic Solids: The Perturbative Approach; Davide Bigoni Modelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties; Alberto Carpinteri, Marco Paggi Multi-scale Analysis of Polycristalline Metals and Composites; J.-L. Chaboche Micro-architectured Solids: From Blast Resistant Structures to Morphing Wings; Norman A. Fleck Plasto-Mechanics of Large Deformation under Impact Loading; N.K. Gupta Onset of Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection; W.R. Hu, Z.M. Tang Instabilities of Flows through Deformable Tubes and Channels; O.E. Jensen Surface Bubbles in Micro-and Nanofluidics; Bram Borkent, Detlef Lohse Bridged and Cohesive Crack Models for Fracture in Composite Materials; Roberta 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; Hans-Bernd Muhlhaus, Louis Moresi, Matt Davies, Klaus Gottschald, Alina Hale From Dry Granular Flows to Submarine Avalanches; Mickael Pailha, Maxime Nicolas, Olivier Pouliquen Failure of Rocks in the Laboratory and in the Earth; J.W. Rudnicki Modeling of Bone Failure by Cohesive Zone Models; Thomas Siegmund, Matthew R. Allen, David 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