Plenary Lectures will be delivered by colleagues of international prestige in the field of the conference.

Confirmed Plenary Lecturers:

Francisco Armero
University of California at Berkeley, USA
Finite Elements with Embedded Discontinuities and Branching for the Modeling of Failure in Solids

Ted Belytschko
Northwestern University, USA
On Multiscale Methods for Fracture and Dislocation Computations

Ronaldo Borja
Stanford University, USA
Stabilized Finite Elements for Interface Contact with the Extended Finite Element Method
 
Jiun-Shyan Chen
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Multiscale Modeling of DNA Molecules

Gerhard A. Holzapfel
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Computational Mechanics of Multi-Layered Collagenous Soft Tissues: State of the Art
and Challenges Ahead

Thomas J.R. Hughes
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Nonlinear and Inelastic Isogeometric Analysis

Michal Kleiber
Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Statistical Models of Rough Surfaces for Finite Element 3D-Contact  Analysis

Pierre Ladevèze
LMT Cachan, France
The LATIN Multiscale Computational Strategy and Engineering Applications

Wing-Kam Liu
Northwestern University, USA
Cyber-Enabled Predictive Science-Based Continuum Mechanics 
for Multiscale Fracture Process Discovery
 
Herbert Mang
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Modeling of the Behavior of Concrete Tunnel Linings under 
Combined Mechanical and Thermal Loading During Fire

Christian Miehe
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Variational Approaches to Gradient-Type Solids in Electro-Magneto-Mechanics
 
Eiji Nakamachi
Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Multi-Scale Analyses of Head Crash Injury by Employing Micro Blood 
Vessel and Nerve Cell Models
 
Xavier Oliver
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
On a  New Contact Domain Method in Contact Mechanics Problems

Michael Ortiz
California Institute of Technology, USA
Optimal Transportation Methods for Fluid and Solid Flows
 
Djordje Peric
Swansea, United Kingdom
Recent Developments on Multiscale Analysis of Materials and Structures
 
Ekkehard Ramm
Stuttgart, Germany
Design Optimization of Heterogeneous Materials for Non-Linear Response 
 
Bernard Schrefler
University of Padova, Italy
A Thermodynamically Consistent Multiscale and Multiphysics Model for Concrete

Erwin Stein
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Theories and a Unified Variational and Algorihmic Framework for Mono
and Polycristalline Martensitic Phase Transformations with Applications

Robert Taylor
University of Berkeley, USA
A Tribute to O. C. Zienkiewicz

Peter Wriggers
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Coupled Discrete/Finite Element Methods as a Virtual Test Device

Alek Zubelewicz
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Emergence of Complex Defect Structures in Metals at Extreme Loading Rates