PLENARY, THEMATIC PLENARY, KEY-NOTE speakers (in fieri)

DAY 1: Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Plenary Lecture (PL) - PL-1, Room: Auditorium, Chairs: Patrizia Trovalusci, Elio Sacco
Computational Applications in Masonry Structures: From the Mesoscale to the Super-Large / Super-Complex / Paulo B. Lourenço, University of Minho, Portugal

Thematic Plenary Lectures (TPL) TPL-1/2, Room: Auditorium, Chair: Stefano Lenci
Is the Discrete Element Method Predictive? / Jose Andrade, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA

Thematic Plenary Lecture: Computational Issues in the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Macro/Micro-Mechanics/ Giuseppe Rega, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (Asme Liapunov Award 2017)

TPL-3/4, Room: S. Francesco, Chairs: Fangsen Cui, Xiao-Wei Gao
A New Meshfree Method: Free Element Collocation Method (FECM) / Xiao-Wei Gao, Dalian University of Technology, China (to be inserted...)
Computational Device Mechanics – The Design and Computation in Acoustics and Biomechanics / Fangsen Cui, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore (to be inserted...)

KEYNOTE: Computational Methods for Confined Concrete Composites at the Mesolevel Through the Aid of 3D Advanced Measurement Techniques / Carmelo Maiorana, Gianluca Mazzucco, Beatrice Pomaro, Giovanna Xotta, Nico De Marchi, Valentina Salomoni

DAY 2: Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Plenary Lecture (PL) - PL-2, Room: Auditorium, Chairs: Patrizia Trovalusci
A Computational Multiscale Framework for Coupled Transient Electromagnetic-Mechanical Phenomena for Antenna and Sensors / Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

TPL-5/6, Room; Auditorium, Chair: Fernando FraternaliThematic Plenary Lecture: Multiphysics-Multiscale modeling of Severe-environment Materials / Nasr Ghoniem, University of California LA, USA

Thematic Plenary Lecture: Integrating Structure and Control Design using the Tensegrity Paradigm/ Robert E. Skelton, Texas A&M, CollegeStation, USA

TPL-7/8, Room: S. Francesco, Chairs: Catalin R. Picu, Wai-Ching Sun

Thematic Plenary Lecture: A Triple-Scale Discrete-continuum Coupling Method for Path-Dependent Porous Media Enhanced by Recurrent and Recursive Deep Learning / Wai-Ching Sun, Columbia University, NY, USA

DAY 3: Thursday, 9 August 2018, Plenary Lecture (PL)
PL-3, Room: Auditorium, Chairs: Gui-Rong Liu, Patrizia Trovalusci
Multiscale Simulation of Metals from Atoms to Components / Siegfried Schmauder, University of Stuttgart, Germany

TPL-9/10, Room: Auditorium, Chair: Giuseppe Rega
Thematic Plenary Lecture: Computational Modeling of Masonry Structures / Elio Sacco, University of Naples, Italy

Thematic Plenary Lecture: Weight is a Potential Motion. The Analysis of Vaulted Structures with a Regularized Non-Smooth-Contact-Dynamic Approach / Gianni Royer Carfagni, University of Parma, Italy

TPL-11/12, Room: S. Francesco, Chairs: Fernando Fraternali, Raj Das
Thematic Plenary Lecture: Multiscale Damage Modelling of Sustainable Composites / Shyam Panamoottil, Raj Das, Krishnan Jayaraman, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Thematic Plenary Lecture: On the Dynamics of Highly Nonlinear Lattice Materials / Fernando Fraternali, University of Salerno, Italy

TPL-13/14, Room: Michelangelo, Chairs: Majid Manzari, Hua Li
Verification and Validation of Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering / Majid Manzari, The George Washington University, USA(to be inserted...)
A Multiphysics Computational Modeling of Smart Magnetic-sensitive Soft Matters / Hua Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (to be inserted...)