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Title:
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Parameter Identification and Experimental Validation

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Organizers:
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Rolf Mahnken
Chair of Engineering Mechanics (LTM)
University of Paderborn
Germany
Tel.: +49-5251-60-2284
Fax.: +49-5251-60-3483
email: rolf.mahnken@ltm.upb.de

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Minisymposium description:
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The reliable simulation of complex material behaviour is driven by the desire to obtain a
good prediction of the real process. A pratical example of engineering interest is the
predictive simulation of crash scenarios in the automotive industry. The simulation of
manufacturing processes is another example, where it is preferable to use material models
coupled to microstructure evolution during the process.
Typically the development of constitutive equations is based on theoretical
considerations,  but experimental data are necessary to determine the constants, which
enter these equations.  Additionally, the models have to be investigated with respect to
prediction.
This step on validation again requires a broad basis of experimental data.

The present minisymposium focusses on parameter identification as well as procedures for
validation of constitituve models on different lenght scales.  Presentations related to
fluid mechanics, dynamics, geotechnics, multiscale methods, acoustics and
electromagnetics are also welcome. In this way, the symposium is meant to bring together
scientists from different research areas such as


* Experimental investigations
* Probalistics
* Mathematical optimization
* Sensitivity analysis
* Error estimation and adaptivity with finite elements
* Model adaptivity
* Industrial applications