Recent Talks

Korea Institute for Advanced Study

A Survey of Recent Results on Contact Problems
10 May 2005  The Talk in PDF format.

Thermoviscoelastic Thermistor
12 May 2005  The Talk in PDF format.

Beam-Wheel Model for Brakes
12 May 2005 The Talk in PDF format.


Some Recent Results on One- and Two- Dimensional Contact Processes
A talk given in the
Workshop on Contact Mechanics and Thin Structures:
Asymptotic and Numerical Methods
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 16 - 18 February  2004.
To download the talk, in pdf format, click here


Recent Developments in Contact Processes
A talk given in the 
European Congress on Computational Methods in Appl. Sci. and
Engineering, ECCOMAS 2004
Jyvaskyla, Finland, 24 2004.
To download the talk, in pdf format, click here



Models for Material Damage
 CDGO-2005  International Conference on Complementarity,
Duality, and Global Optimization in Science and Engineering
Virginia Tech,  15-17 August 2005      The Talk

Models for Material Damage
AMS - 2005 Fall Central Section Meeting
Lincoln, NE, October 21-23, 2005   The Talk

Models for Material Damage
Colloquium - Department of Mathematics and Statistics
OU,  17 January 2006   The Talk



  Damageable Vibrating String
  Fluids and Waves - Recent Trends in Applied Analysis
  The University of Memphis, 11-13 May 2006    The Talk 

 The numerical simulatiopns described in my talk can be downloaded here.

 1.   d=0.01     k=0.04       λ=0.75     Animation-1

 2.   d=0.005     k=0.04       λ=0.75    Animation-2

 3.   d=0.001     k=0.04       λ=0.75    Animation-3

 4.   d=0.01     k=0.01       λ=0.75   Animation-4

 5.   d=0.01     k=0.01       λ=0.75   Animation-5


  Recent Results for Contact Problems with Material Damage
  Second  Intl.  Conference on
  NONSMOOTH/NONCONVEX MECHANICS
  WITH APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING
  Aristotle University of THESSALONIKI, Greece,
  7 & 8 July, 2006   The Talk and the animation   Animation



  Recent Results for Contact Problems with Material Damage
  In "Inverse Problems, Homogenization and Related Topics in Analysis"
  On the occasion of Prof. Robert Gilbert's 75th Birthday
  Department of Mathematics,  University of Central Florida, Orlando
  January 13-15, 2007     The Talk  and the  Animation


  Models of Material Damage
  Colloquium
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  9 March 2007   The Talk and the animations   Animation


   
 Models for Material Damage or Adhesion
  ICTCAM 2007 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
 "Trends and Challenges in Applied Mathematics"    
  June 20-23, 2007, Bucharest, Romania   The Talk   and the animations   Animation

 Mathematical Models for Material Damage
 6th Congress of Romanian mathematicians
 28 June - 4 July 2007
 Bucharest, Romania    The Talk  and the animations   Animation



 Models for Material Damage or Adhesion
  Colloquium
  Department of Mathematics
  Saginaw Valley State University
  29 January 2008   The Talk and the animations   Animation