36th Danubia Adria Symposium
on Advances in Experimental Mechanics
September 24–27, 2019
Pilsen, Czech Republic
Sponsored by
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INVITED LECTURE BY NASA EXPERT
It is our great honour and privilege to announce that the invited lecture will be given by a long-term NASA technical fellow and a recognized expert Dr. Ivatury S. Raju.
During the past four decades at NASA Langley Research Center, Dr. Raju’s research focused on Fracture Mechanics, Durability and Damage Tolerance, Composite Materials, and development of advanced Structural Analysis Methods such as Finite Element, Boundary Element, and Meshless Methods. Dr. Raju held various positions such as Head of the Mechanics of Materials Branch in the Materials Division; Head of the Analytical and Computational Methods Branch and Senior Technologist of Structures and Materials, NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s (NESC) Structures Discipline Expert, and NASA Technical Fellow for Structures. He made significant contributions to various NASA programs such as the Aircraft Energy Efficiency, Advanced Composite Technology, Aging Aircraft, and Vehicle Systems Programs. During his career, Dr. Raju was called on to participate in many major failure investigations – 7’ x 10’ fan blade failure at Langley, Challenger SRB field joint, X-33 Composite tank failure, and the AA 587 Airbus A300-600 rudder failure. During his Tech Fellow’s position at the NESC, Dr. Raju’s work focused on finding solutions to ensure safe operations of several programs such as Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, the Ares rockets of the Constellation, and the Commercial Crew Program. Dr. Raju retired from NASA Langley in March 2017. He currently serves gratuitously as Distinguished Research Associate at NASA Langley.
Dr. Raju has a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, M.E. and Ph.D. in Aeronautical Structures, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an M.S. in Engineering Administration from the George Washington University. He participated in Program in Management Development at Harvard University. Dr. Raju is the recipient of several honors: NASA Langley’s Value Engineering Award; ICCES’s Theodore H. H. Pian Medal; Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, NESC’s MLAS Max Faget Engineering Excellence Award; ICCES’s Lifetime Achievement Award; NASA’s Exceptional Achievement and Exceptional Service Medals.
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ABOUT
Each year since 1984, the Danubia-Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics brings together internationally recognized experts and young researchers in an effort to exchange ideas in different topics having as common link EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS. The symposium acts also as a platform for establishing connections between different research groups that are trying to establish future scientific collaboration.
The symposium is focused on experimental and measuring methods necessary to deepen the knowledge about the mechanical behavior of materials, mechanical structures, and systems, and to provide the physical bases and verification of numerical or analytical methodologies in engineering design.
The symposium is focused, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Structural analysis: experimental tests, structural health monitoring, system identification, damage assessment, self-adaptive structures
- Materials characterization and testing: smart materials, residual stress, fatigue, fracture, creep
- Practical applications and case-studies
- Biomechanics: biomaterials, biomechanics, medical and orthopedic devices, biofluid mechanics
- Instrumentation: new sensors and actuators, advanced measurement systems; Validation and reliability of instrumentation
- Integration of mathematical/numerical methods with experimental mechanics
Faculty members and students, scientists, researchers, engineers and industrial experts are warmly invited to present and discuss the current status and impact of modern technology and development in the field of experimental mechanics.
As a tradition in the Danubia Adria Symposia, a special competition, open to doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students will be organized. The scientific committee will be the jury that will assign three prizes (100 EUR) for the best papers presented by the students.
The symposium will consist of oral and poster presentations. Selected contributions presented at the symposium will be recommended for publication in Elsevier journal Materials Today Proceedings (the proposal was accepted on February 28, 2019).
ORGANIZERS
This symposium is organized by University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Mechanics, under the auspices of the Dean of the faculty doc. Dr. Ing. Vlasta Radová, and in co-operation with the following European national agencies:
- Austrian Society of Experimental Strain Analysis (ASESA)
- Croatian Society of Mechanics (HDM)
- Czech Society for Mechanics (CSM)
- German Society of Experimental Structural Analysis (GESA)
- Greek Society of Experimental Mechanics of Materials (GSEMM)
- Hungarian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering (GTE)
- Italian Association for Stress Analysis (AIAS)
- Polish Committee for Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (KMPAN)
- Romanian Association of Stress Analysis and Materials Testing (ARTENS)
- Serbian Society of Mechanics (SSM)
- Slovak Society of Mechanics (SSM)
- Slovenian Society of Experimental Mechanics (SSEM)
Danubia-Adria Society on Experimental Methods
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
| Austria: | Josef Eberhardsteiner (Vienna), Wilfried Eichlseder (Leoben), Bernhard Pichler (Vienna) |
| Croatia: | Damir Semenski (Zagreb), Lovre Krstulović-Opara (Split) |
| Czech Republic: | Milan Růžička (Praha), František Plánička (Plzeň), Robert Zemčík (Plzeň) — conference chair |
| Germany: | Werner Daum (Berlin), Martin Stockmann (Chemnitz) |
| Greece: | Stavros Kourkoulis (Athens), Ermioni Pasiou (Athens) |
| Hungary: | Rita Kiss (Budapest), Attila Kossa (Budapest) |
| Italy: | Francesca Cosmi (Trieste), Mario Guagliano (Milano) |
| Poland: | Zbigniew Kowalewski (Warsaw), Paweł Pyrzanowski (Warsaw) |
| Romania: | Dan Mihai Constantinescu (Bucharest), Ştefan Dan Pastramă (Bucharest) |
| Serbia: | Marko Miloš (Belgrade), Miroslav Živković (Kragujevac) |
| Slovakia: | František Nový (Žilina), Eva Tillová (Žilina) |
| Slovenia: | Igor Emri (Ljubljana), Anatolij Nikonov (Novo mesto) |
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FEES
400 EUR — full (450 EUR after August 31, 2019)
Included: electronic book of abstracts, welcome reception, coffee breaks, 3 lunches, dinner, gala dinner, trip/excursion, conference bag.
250 EUR — student, member of DAS committee (350 EUR after August 31, 2019)
Included: electronic book of abstracts, welcome reception, coffee breaks, 3 lunches, dinner, gala dinner, trip/excursion, conference bag.
250 EUR — accompanying person (350 EUR after August 31, 2019)
Included: welcome reception, 3 lunches, dinner, gala dinner, trip/excursion (2 items).
The fee in case of authors also includes publication of 1 abstract (if accepted by organizer) in book of abstracts, an oral or poster presentation of the abstract (as chosen by organizer), and the submission of 1 full paper for review in the Elsevier journal after the conference (if selected by organizer).
Authors who submit a second abstract will be charged an additional amount of 100 EUR during registration to cover the corresponding costs.
Fees must be paid before the conference (see deadlines) by wire-transfer. On-the-spot payments will not be possible.
When paying by wire-transfer from a bank within the 36 European SEPA countries you will automatically chose the "SHA" charge option. However, when paying from a bank outside SEPA, you must choose the "OUR" charge option to make sure that we recieve the correct amount.
All fees contain 21% VAT.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
| Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| Registration | Session | Session | |
| Trip for accompanying persons | Excursion | ||
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| Welcome reception | Dinner | Gala dinner |
You can download the detailed PROGRAM.
Click here for ONLINE CALENDAR. You can subscribe to this public Google calendar.
The excursion and the gala dinner will take place in the world-famous Pilsner Urquell brewery
(click for information for visitors).
The trip for accompanying persons will include: visit to chateau Kozel, sparkling wine tasting in Bohemia Sekt company and/or visit to Radyně medieval castle.
Plan you leisure time during the conference. Visit the official page of City of Pilsen:
DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES
September, 2018
First announcement
February 1, 2019
Call for papers
April 15, 2019 Extended to May 6, 2019
Deadline for abstract submission
May 10, 2019
Notification of acceptance
May 27, 2019
REGISTRATION OPEN
By filling in the registration form you can register yourself and your accompanying person(s), request (proforma) invoice, and make a meal preference.
August 31, 2019
Deadline for early-bird registration and fee payment
September 20, 2019
Deadline for registration and fee payment
VENUE & ACCOMODATION
Parkhotel Plzeň Congress Center ★★★★
U Borského parku 31, 301 00 Plzeň
Special rates for rooms reserved until end of June 2019. You have to book by email. Please note that the prices are subject to actual exchange CZK/EUR rate. Price includes wi-fi, breakfast, fitness, outside pool, and parking.
60–75 EUR — single room
75–90 EUR — double room
There are plenty of other possibilities for accomodation in Pilsen. You can use standard tools, such as Google (Maps), Booking.com, Airbnb, Trivago, Hotels.com etc.
How to get here
Getting to Pilsen and the hotel is super easy.
- By car use highway D5 (from Germany or from Prague).
- If you arrive by plane to Prague - Václav Havel Airport (PRG) you can use local bus #100 to Zličín and then bus to Pilsen (Regiojet, Flixbus, 60 mins). Or you can use bus or subway to the Central train station and then use the train to Pilsen (80 mins).
- The public transport in Pilsen is very convenient. You can also pay by contact-less debit/credit card inside each vehicle.
SPONSORS
Your logo can be here! You can present your company during the conference, such as in an exhibition booth, giving presentation within sessions or cultural events, or by providing leaflets, technical datasheets or contest awards etc. We expect more than 100 participants mainly from European countries where DAS has its national agencies.
You can view detailed information in this Sponsoring Brochure (PDF, 2 MB).
If you would like to sponsor our conference, please, contact us using the email below. Thank you.
Partners of the conference
CONTACT
University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 301 00 Pilsen, Czech Republic