Reminder & Update, Computational Geometry for Mechanics & Applications

[Tim Tautges]

REMINDER & UPDATE

Mini-Symposium on Computational Geometry 
for Mechanics and Applications (CGMA)

http://legacy.ep.wisc.edu/~tjtautg/socgma/
July 9-10, 2002
Vienna, Austria

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the mini-symposium on
Computational Geometry for Mechanics & Applications is November 15.
Please submit abstracts to *both* the WCCM V conference (see
http://wccm.tuwien.ac.at for details) and to me at
tjtautg at sandia.gov.  Papers for the special journal issue should be
submitted at the symposium.

The dates of this mini-symposium will be July 9-10, 2002.  Keynote and
invited papers are as follows:

Keynote: Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, "Topological Modeling
  in Structural Biology and Mechanical Engineering" 
Invited speaker: Cecil Armstrong, Queen's University Belfast (title
  TBD) 

Please see the symposium website at
http://legacy.ep.wisc.edu/~tjtautg/socgma/ for more details.  The
original call for abstracts/papers follows.


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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS

Mini-Symposium on Computational Geometry 
for Mechanics and Applications (CGMA)

http://legacy.ep.wisc.edu/~tjtautg/socgma/
July 7-12, 2002
Vienna, Austria

To be held in conjunction with
5th World Congress on Computational Mechanics
http://wccm.tuwien.ac.at/

Geometric models are the basis for the construction of domain
discretizations used in many computational mechanics
simulations. Geometry is a bottleneck in these simulations because of
the work required to convert a typical CAD model into the desired
analysis model.  Furthermore, there are growing opportunities to use
geometry to support advanced techniques like geometry-fitted adaptive
mesh refinement, smooth-surface contact detection, and coarsening of
mesh models.  We invite submissions describing geometric algorithms
used during all stages of the mechanics analysis process.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

.Reconstruction of smooth surfaces from facet data
.Geometric detail suppression
.Geometry support for boundary condition evaluation in FEA
.Smooth-surface contact detection and enforcement in FEA
.Feature-based decomposition for hexahedral mesh generation
.Dimensional reduction of geometric models
.Generation of medial axis transform and applications in mechanics
.Generic interfaces to geometric modelers
.Geometric complexity assessment for mesh generation
.Geometry-fitted adaptive mesh refinement
.Geometry acquisition from biological or scanned data
."Virtual geometry" representations and applications
.Geometry-based sizing for mesh generation
.Design optimization on model geometry
.Geometry support for parallel or distributed mechanics simulations

Special journal issue:

Selected papers of sufficient quality will be published in a special
issue of the International Journal for Computational Geometry and
Applications (http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/ijcga/ijcga.html).

Important dates:

Submission of abstract: November 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2001
Submission of full paper: July 12, 2002 (at the conference)

For further information:

Dr. Timothy J. Tautges
Sandia National Labs/
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1500 Engineering Dr.
Madison, WI 53706

tjtautg at sandia.gov

Phone: (608) 263-8485
Fax: (608) 263-4499

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