Organized Session

Mechanics of Wood and Wood Based Materials
[to cover elastic and/or plastic problems by analytical, numerical and experimental methods]

• Y. Obata (Tottori University, Japan)
• K. Kanayama (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
• T. Miki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
• T. Tsuji (Chuo University, Japan)

Exact and Approximate Analytical Methods in Dynamics

• M. Langthjem (Yamagata University, Japan)
• K. Watanabe (Yamagata University, Japan)

Elastic waves and NDE/SHM
(nondestructive evaluation / structural health monitoring)

• S. Biwa (Kyoto University, Japan)

Strength Evaluation for Bonded Materials and Structures and Analysis for Singular Stress Fields

• H. Koguchi (Nagaoka　University of Technology, Japan)
• N. Noda (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

Crack Problems in Functional and Intelligent Materials

• T. Y. Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
• C. F. Gao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Mechanics of Soft Materials and Structures

• W. Q. Chen (Zhejiang University, China)
• C. Lu (Zhejiang University, China)

Dynamic Behavior on Smart Materials

• Y. Huang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

Mechanical Behaviors of Advanced Materials

• T. Adachi (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
• T. Morimoto (Shimane University)
• M. Higuchi (Kanazawa University, Japan)

Developments and Latest Advances of Mathematical and Numerical Analyses in Elasticity

• R. Kawamura (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
• M. Ishihara (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• K.Ushijima (Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan)

Failure Mechanics of Nonhomogeneous Materials

• L.C. Guo (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
• T. Zeng (Harbin University of Science and Technology, China)

Coupled Mechanics of Smart Composite, Sandwich and FGM Plates and Shells

• S. Kapuria (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Phase Field Simulations of Advanced Materials

• Jie Wang (Zhejiang University)
• T. Y. Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)