Mechanics down under : proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Adelaide, Australia, 24-29 August 2008

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