Euromech contact person: Venue:

Prof. Pedro Camanho (Portugal) The Colloquium will be held in Senigallia Euromech Colloquium n. 541

(Ancona), Italy, a nice sea-side small city, Scientific Committee close to Ancona, Italy, well-known for its New Advances in the Nonlinear beaches and for its cultural heritage. Holm Altenbach (Germany) For more information please see the website Dynamics and Control of Bala Balachandran (USA) http://www.comune.senigallia.an.it/senigall Composites for Smart René de Borst (The Netherlands) iaTurismoEn/index.html, where you can Engineering Design Matthew Cartmell (United Kingdom) also find information on transportations. Paulo Goncalves (Brazil) Senigallia (Ancona) – Italy Daniel Inman (USA) Claude-Henri Lamarque (France) Stefano Lenci (Italy) – Chair 3-6 June 2013 Giuseppe Rega (Italy) Pedro Ribeiro (Portugal) First announcement Tomasz Sadowski (Poland) Senigallia can be accessed by plane (Ancona Subash Sinha (USA) airport), train (from Rome, Milan, Bologne, Jerzy Warminski (Poland) – Co-chair etc.), bus and car. www.dipmat.univpm.it/euromech541 Marian Wiercigroch (United Kingdom) The venue is the spectacular “Rotonda a contact: [email protected] Local Organizing Committee: Mare”, a picturesque building on the sea. Chair: Stefano Lenci Stefano Lenci Polytechnic University of Marche Lucio Demeio Email: [email protected] Giovanni Lancioni Michele Serpilli Co-Chair: Jerzy Warminski Lublin University of Technology Congress Secretary Email: [email protected]

Monica Marinelli

Scopes:  Impact loading Sponsorships:  Inverse problems The Colloquium is aimed at constituting an  Nonlinear dynamics and vibrations of European Mechanics Society (Euromech) event to join scientists working on linear composites with active elements www.euromech.org and, mainly, on nonlinear dynamics, chaos  Control of the dynamics of composite and control of systems and structures made materials and structures Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, of composite materials for smart  Vibration suppression and control with Italy applications. Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) or www.univpm.it The first goal of the proposed Colloquium is piezoelectric transducer (PZT) that of gathering people working on the City of Senigallia, (Ancona), Italy  Multiscale approaches most recent modeling, theoretical, http://www.comune.senigallia.an.it/senigall  Analytical (nonlinear normal modes, analytical, numerical, experimental and iaTurismoEn/index.html multiple scale, etc.) and numerical control achievements in the nonlinear (POD, etc.) techniques dynamics of composites. The Conference is organized within the  Experimental dynamics and techniques The second aim is that of pushing the Framework of the European Research  Multidisciplinary and multiphysics transfer of theoretical results towards Project “Centre of excellence for modern approaches for composites innovative applications of composites, in composites in applied aerospace and  Smart applications of composite any field of science and engineering, in surface transport infrastructure”,  Signal processing and structural health order to reduce the gap between theory and CEMCAST FP7-245479. monitoring practice. http://cemcast.pollub.pl/index  High speed cutting of composite

materials Conference themes:  Dynamical response of functionally Within the general area of the nonlinear graded (FGM) and sandwich materials dynamics of composites, specific topics  Nonlinear dynamics in fabrication include, but are not limited to: processes  Modeling of the dynamics of composite  Optimization materials and structures  Energy harvesting by composites  Vibrations problems structures and materials  Nonlinear dynamics and chaos  Applications of composites in robotics