Mechanics Down Under

<p>Preface                                                                                                                                   </p><p>Acknowledgments                                                                                                                             </p><p>Sectional Lectures and Mini-symposium Papers</p><p>Material Instabilities in Elastic and Plastic Solids: The Perturbative Approach; Davide Bigoni<br><br></p><p>Modelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties; Alberto Carpinteri, Marco Paggi<br><br></p><p>Multi-scale Analysis of Polycristalline Metals and Composites; J.-L. Chaboche<br><br></p><p>Micro-architectured Solids: From Blast Resistant Structures to Morphing Wings; Norman A. Fleck<br><br></p><p>Plasto-Mechanics of Large Deformation under Impact Loading; N.K. Gupta<br><br></p><p>Onset of Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection; W.R. Hu, Z.M. Tang<br><br></p><p>Instabilities of Flows through Deformable Tubes and Channels; O.E. Jensen<br><br></p><p>Surface Bubbles in Micro-and Nanofluidics; Bram Borkent, Detlef Lohse</p><p><p>Bridged and Cohesive Crack Models for Fracture in Composite Materials; Roberta Massabò<br><br>Relaxation to Steady Vortical Flows – and Knots in the Quark-Gluon Plasma; H.K. Moffatt<br><br>Instabilities across the Scales: Simple Models for Shear Banding, Plate Subduction and Mantle Convection in Geodynamics; Hans-Bernd Mühlhaus, Louis Moresi, Matt Davies, Klaus Gottschald, Alina Hale<br><br>From Dry Granular Flows to Submarine Avalanches; Mickael Pailha, Maxime Nicolas, Olivier Pouliquen<br><br>Failure of Rocks in the Laboratory and in the Earth; J.W. Rudnicki<br><br>Modeling of Bone Failure by Cohesive Zone Models; Thomas Siegmund, Matthew R. Allen, David B. Burr<br><br>The Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines; J.N. Sorensen, R. Mikkelsen, N. Troldborg, V.L. Okulov, W.Z. Shen</p><p>Cohesive-Zone Modeling of Adhesive Joints; M.D. Thouless</p><p>Author Index</p><p>