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Title:
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COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS OF RANDOM MEDIA

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Organizers:
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Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1206 Green West Street
Urbana, IL 61801
U.S.A.
phone: (217) 265-0900
Fax: (217) 244-9980
e-mail: martinos@uiuc.edu
http://www.mechse.uiuc.edu/research/martinos

Marcin Kaminski
Division of Mechanics of Materials
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture & Environmental Engineering
Technical University of Lodz
Al. Politechniki 6
93-590 Lodz
POLAND
tel/fax (48-42)6313551
e-mail address: marcinka@p.lodz.pl
http://kmm.p.lodz.pl 

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Minisymposium description:
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Most materials - composites, granular media, metals, biomaterials, etc. - possess 
microstructures displaying several length scales, oftentimes accompanied by a 
non-deterministic disorder. A better understanding and prediction of the resulting 
random nature of materials' micro- meso- and/or macro-scopic properties requires a 
modeling approach based on a combination of probabilistic concepts with methods of 
mechanics. By and large, one has to resort to computational methods given the 
insurmountable difficulties facing the analyst. This mini-symposium aims to provide 
a forum for a review of current advances in that field. Topics of interest include, 
but are not limited to:

- random field models of discrete and continuous media
- non-classical continuum mechanics of random media
- stochastic finite and boundary elements
- lattice/network models
- stochastic differential equations
- stochastic variational principles
- homogenization methods
- scaling laws