Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2014 ASME IDETC’s Symposium on Jointed Structures, Contact, Friction, and Damping. This symposium, much like last year, is focused on the study of mechanical joints, contact, friction, and damping are several of the few remaining important unknown quantities in structural mechanics and dynamics. The goal of this symposium is to promote discussion and a better understanding between these topics and to generate new perspectives on the linkage between friction at a tribological level, contact mechanics, and the responses of built-up assemblies containing joints at a structural level. All papers concerned with the dynamics and mechanics of jointed structures, contact, friction, and damping are invited for this symposium, with particular emphasis on the following challenges:
With the holidays fast approaching, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of the deadlines for the 2014 ASME IDETC conference. For those of you interested in submitting a full paper:
Abstracts are due on January 13th, with the draft papers due January 27th.
Like last year, I anticipate being able to have technical presentation only submissions, but the abstracts for this are still due on January 13th. If you are interested in presenting at IDETC but are unable to make these tight deadlines, please contact me directly so that we can make other arrangements for your paper to be included in the conference.
Unlike last year, we most likely will not have every challenge present an update presentation, but we will be interested in having several of the challenges discussed in detail during one or two special sessions of the symposium. Once the executive board of the ASME Research Committee on the Mechanics of Jointed Structues (i.e. David Ewins et al.) are able to sit down together to discuss the plan for IDETC, we will provide you with this information.
Take care, and please let me know if you have any questions.
Matthew Brake
I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2014 ASME IDETC’s Symposium on Jointed Structures, Contact, Friction, and Damping. This symposium, much like last year, is focused on the study of mechanical joints, contact, friction, and damping are several of the few remaining important unknown quantities in structural mechanics and dynamics. The goal of this symposium is to promote discussion and a better understanding between these topics and to generate new perspectives on the linkage between friction at a tribological level, contact mechanics, and the responses of built-up assemblies containing joints at a structural level. All papers concerned with the dynamics and mechanics of jointed structures, contact, friction, and damping are invited for this symposium, with particular emphasis on the following challenges:
- Measurements of hysteresis in jointed structures
- Repeatability (measurement to measurement) and variability (unit to unit) in measurements of the response of jointed structures
- Complex loading methods
- Physical theories and studies of friction
- Measurements and predictions of energy dissipation and damping
- Methods to account for uncertainty and nonlinearity in structures with joints, contact, friction, or damping
- Development and validation of predictive models of contact
- Integration of joints, friction, contact, and damping research with commercial numerical codes
- Application of joints, friction, contact, and damping research to real problems
- Related topics, e.g. tribology studies, surface chemistry, frameworks for multi-scale modeling, gaskets, glued interfaces, etc., are invited as well.
With the holidays fast approaching, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of the deadlines for the 2014 ASME IDETC conference. For those of you interested in submitting a full paper:
Abstracts are due on January 13th, with the draft papers due January 27th.
Like last year, I anticipate being able to have technical presentation only submissions, but the abstracts for this are still due on January 13th. If you are interested in presenting at IDETC but are unable to make these tight deadlines, please contact me directly so that we can make other arrangements for your paper to be included in the conference.
Unlike last year, we most likely will not have every challenge present an update presentation, but we will be interested in having several of the challenges discussed in detail during one or two special sessions of the symposium. Once the executive board of the ASME Research Committee on the Mechanics of Jointed Structues (i.e. David Ewins et al.) are able to sit down together to discuss the plan for IDETC, we will provide you with this information.
Take care, and please let me know if you have any questions.
Matthew Brake