Contact: Robbie Ward
A professional gathering of about 80 international authorities on computer modeling and simulation will be sponsored Tuesday-Friday [June 22-25] by Mississippi State's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at the Cochran Research Park.
For the second year, the university's Symposium of Predictive Science and Technology of Mechanics and Materials brings together representatives of academia and industry with counterparts in the U.S. departments of Defense and Energy. This is the second of three such CAVS-hosted events held biannually.
Emerging research, new techniques and high-performance computing in engineering can lead to better designed manufacturing facilities and procedures, said event co-organizer Mark Horstemeyer, an MSU professor of mechanics and CAVS chair in computational solid mechanics.
While not a public event, sessions are open to interested members of the news media.
The schedule includes a Tuesday [the 22nd] summary of CAVS' scientific and technical progress. Also, at various sessions during the week, participants will present research findings on a variety of areas, including fracture of materials, multi-scale modeling of metals, polymers, composites, and biological and bio-inspired materials.
A complete schedule and additional details are available at www.cavs.msstate.edu/symposium/.
CAVS is an interdisciplinary center composed of engineering, research, development, and technology transfer teams focused on enhancing human and payload mobility. Over time, the center's research activities have focused on material science, manufacturing process modeling, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, multi-scale modeling, and vehicular systems engineering, among other areas.
For more information, contact Horstemeyer at 662-325-7308 or mfhorst@me.msstate.edu.