International Organizing Committee of Plasticity ’16 (Kona, Hawaii,
Jan. 3-9, 2016)
Chair: Akhtar S. Khan (USA)
Honorary Chair: Georges Cailletaud (France)
Members and organized mini-symposiums:
Mohsen Asle Zaeem (USA): “Interactions between Nano and Microstructural Evolution,
and Mechanical Behavior”
Yoshiteru Aoyagi (Japan): "Multiscale Plasticity of Ultrafine-Grained Metals"
Holm Altenbach (Germany), and Tetsuya Matsuda & Dai Okumura (Japan): “From
Creep Damage Mechanics to Homogenization Methods” In honor of Nobutada
Ohno
Frédéric Barlat (S. Korea), Carlos Tome (USA) and Gabriela Vincze (Portugal):
“Development and Applications of Constitutive Descriptions for Plasticity at
Various Scales” in Memory of José J. Grácio
Kip Barrett & Sean Agnew (USA) and Kaan Inal (Canada):“The role of grain
boundaries and interfaces in plasticity and deformation microstructure formation”
Curt A. Bronkhorst, H. M. Mourad & Jason R. Mayeur (USA): “Microstructural
Plasticity to Damage Processes under Dynamic Loading Conditions”
Indrajit Charit (USA): "Creep, Deformation, Texture, Nano and Nuclear Materials" in
honor of K.L. Murty”
Huiling Duan (China): “Mechanical response and structural evolution in materials for
purpose of plasticity design”
Joe Goddard & Ken Kamrin (USA) and Itai Einav (Australia): “Plasticity of
Granular and Geomaterials”
Klaus Hackl (Germany) & Dennis M. Kochmann (USA): “Continuum mechanical and
variational aspects of materials deformation”, in honor of Khanh Chau Le
Yanyao Jiang, Rick Neu and Ibrahim Kamran (USA): "Multi-faceted Research
in Materials and Mechanics", in honor of Huseyin Sehitoglu
Jeff Kysar (USA) & Chris Niordson (Denmark):"Small Scale Plasticity and
Microstructural Evolution"
Jean-Briac le Graverend (USA): “High Temperature Creep Deformation in
Superalloys”
Valery Levitas & Liming Xiong (USA): “Phase Transformations”
Timothy J. Rupert & Jason Trelewicz (USA): “Interface and Surface-Dominated
Plasticity, Fracture, and Fatigue in Metals”
Lakhdar Taleb, Serge Kruch and Esteban Busso (France), Tasnim Hassan (USA):
“Macroscopic and Multiscale Approach of Cyclic Plasticity:: Theoretical Modeling
and Applications”, in honor of Georges Cailletaud and Jean-Louis Chaboche
Vikas Tomar (USA): “Influence of Interfaces on Extreme Environment Plastic
Deformation Properties of Materials”
Laszlo Toth (Hungary) and Satyam Suwas (India): “Physical Metallurgical
Mechanisms of Deformation Texture Evolution”, in honor of Werner Skrotzki
Jian Wang (USA) & Peidong Wu (Canada): “Shear and phase transformation
mechanisms and their effect on mechanical behavior”
Ikumu Watanabe & Takahito Ohmura (Japan): ”Multiscale Modeling and Characterization in Structural Materials”
Jeong Whan Yoon (Australia): “Exploring New Horizons for Metal Forming Research”
in honor of Dong-Yol Yang