Materials Mechanics Beyond the Horizon

The workshop entitled "Materials Mechanics Beyond the Horizon" is dedicated to celebrating the upcoming 80th anniversary of Alan Needleman. With a career spanning over half a century, Alan continues to be a driving force in the field of Mechanics of Materials, inspiring both his peers and the next generation of researchers with his unwavering passion and energy. Throughout his distinguished career, Alan has enabled new frontiers of research and expanded the limits of the field by his innovative ideas and pioneering works.

“Smaller may be stronger but larger is more dynamic.”
On size effects in material’s mechanics at the IUTAM Symposium on Dynamic instabilities in solids, May 2016, Madrid, Spain.

“Regard a continuum as consisting of both surfaces and volumes with a constitutive relation for each.”
On cohesive modeling in the Speech of Acceptance of the 2011 Timoshenko Medal, ASME 2011 IMECE, Denver, Colorado.

“Agreement gives confidence in the predictions while disagreement can point the way to the development of improved theories and models.”
On comparing experiments and simulations in the Speech of Acceptance of the 2011 Timoshenko Medal, ASME 2011 IMECE, Denver, Colorado.

“For rate dependent plasticity the plastic strain rate does not depend on rate quantities whereas for rate independent plasticity it does.”
On the fundamental distinction between rate dependent and rate independent plasticity in context to shear band instabilities in Disorder and Fracture, 1990, 219-238.

Organizers:

Amine Benzerga

Vikram Deshpande

Erik van der Giessen

José A. Rodríguez-Martínez

Ankit Srivastava