Announcement and Call for Abstracts

          5th US National Congress on  Computational Mechanics 
                 Boulder, Colorado, USA, August 4-6, 1999


             MINISYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL CONCRETE MECHANICS

                                OBJECTIVE

The objective of this minisymposium is to discuss recent advances
in computational modelling of plain concrete and concrete-like materials,
reinforced and prestressed concrete and the 
role of advanced material models in structural analysis. 
Beyond the aspects of material modelling,
reliability, robustness and efficiency of 
modelling techniques are topics relevant to this symposium.

As far as material modelling is concerned, deformations and
deterioration in concrete because of static and dynamic loading,
environmental influences, creep, shrinkage, ageing and temperature effects on 
macro- meso- and micro- scales will be addressed
within various theoretical frameworks such as
plasticity theory, damage and fracture mechanics.
Related issues include parameter identification, coupled phenomena as regards 
thermal and chemical influences on the mechanical behavior, stochastic aspects, 
efficiency and robustness of algorithms, modelling of  reinforcement and 
prestressed reinforcement, regularization methods and  
corrosion-induced damage of reinforcing steel.

Selected topics pertaining to structural modelling of plain and RC 
concrete structures are adaptive finite element techniques for 2D and/or 
3D structures, structural optimization, stochastic modelling 
of loading conditions, section models and durability aspects.

Organizers:  Prof. Herbert A. MANG  
             Institute for Strength of Materials, TU-Vienna, Austria 
             Tel: +43-1 58801 3084,  Fax: +43-1 5041629
             E-mail: herbert.mang@tuwien.ac.at 

             Prof. Gunther MESCHKE 
             Institute for Structural Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
             Tel: +49-234 700 4965,  Fax: +49-234 709 4149
             E-mail: guenther.meschke@ruhr-uni-bochum.de