Mechanics for a New Millennium: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Chicago, USA, 27 August - 2 September 2000

Committees. Chairs of mini-symposia and pre-nominated sessions. Opening ceremony. Congress poster. Program at a glance. Scientific program. Invited papers. New perspectives on crack and fault dynamics; J.R. Rice. New perspectives on crack and fault dynamics; R.M. Christensen. A survey of and evaluation methodology for fiber composite material failure theories; J.-L. Chaboche. On constitutive and damage modeling in metal matrix composites; L.J. Gibson. Metallic foams: Structure, properties and applications; M. Nemer, et al. Linear viscoelasticity of concentrated emulsions; P.A. Davidson. Aluminium: Approaching the new millennium; T. Toh, E. Takeuchi. Electromagnetic phenomena in steel continuous casting; R.J. Anderson.Rail dynamics for the 21st century; R.S. Sharp. Fundamentals of the lateral dynamics of road vehicles; M. Abe, J.K. Hedrick. A mechatronics approach to advanced vehicle control system design; E. Villermaux. Mixing: Kinetics and geometry; S. Roux, F. Radjaï.Statistical approach to the mechanical behavior of granular media; G.J. Dvorak. Damage analysis and prevention in composite materials; J.S. Walker. Electromagnetic phenomena in crystal growth; W. Kortüm, et al. Software tools: From multibody system analysis to vehicle system dynamics; M.Y. Louge, et al. Granular segregation in collisional shearing flows; P.P. Castañeda, P. Suquet. Nonlinear composites and microstructure evolution; D.L. Weaire, S. Hutzler. Hard problems with soft materials: The mechanics of foams; H. BenHadid. Magnetohydrodynamic damped buoyancy-driven convection; T.J. Gordon. Adaptive, nonlinear, and learning techniques for the control of vehicle ride dynamics; P.E. Dimotakis.Recent advances in turbulent mixing; I. Goldhirsch. Kinetic and continuumdescriptions of granular flows; V.A. Palmov. Stationary waves in elasto-plastic and visco-plastic bodies; E. Stein, S. Ohnimus.Hierarchical model- and discretization-error estimation of elasto-plastic structures; S.J. Cowley.Laminar boundary-layer theory: A 20th century paradox?; E. van der Giessen. Plasticity in the 21st century; D.M. McQueen, C.S. Peskin. Heart simulation by an immersed boundary method with formal second-order accuracy and reduced numerical viscosity; S. Kida. Vortical structure in turbulence; R.N. Iyengar. Probabilistic methods in earthquake engineering; G. Dagan. Effective, equivalent, and apparent properties of heterogeneous media; A. Liñán. Diffusion-controlled combustion; S. Suresh. Nanomechanics and microme