Invited Lectures



Achieving Fire Safety for Polymer Composites in Construction
L. Bisby
, University of Edinburgh, UK

Mechanics of Ultra-Thin Ply Laminates
P. Camanho
, University of Porto, Portugal

Damage Instability and Transition from Quasi-Static to Dynamic Fracture
C. Dávila
, NASA-Langley, USA

Novel Composite Materials for Automotive Applications: Concepts and Challenges for Energy-Efficient and Safe Vehicles
A. Elmarakbi
, University of Sunderland, UK

Progress and Challenges in the Virtual Testing and Design of Composite Structures
B. Falzon
, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

Nonconventional Composite Laminates
Z. Gurdal
, University of South Carolina, USA

Semidefinite Programming and Applications in free Material Optimization
J. Herskovits, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Large Deformation Analysis of Laminated Composite and Functionally Graded Structures: Recent Developments
J.N. Reddy
, Texas A&M University, USA