Workshop: Mesomechanics(MESO 2008); held in Giza, Egypt; January 28- February 1, 2008.

MESO 2008的目标是应用多尺度和细观力学来开发节能和环境友好的结构和材料。将特别关注建筑物、住房和土木工程结构等大型结构，这些结构的大部分一次能源被转化为电力、取暖油等有用的能源。将邀请一些具有设计和施工经验的专家讲授如何改进目前的做法。这种互动应提供一种必要的合作气氛，以减轻与浪费资源对环境造成有害影响有关的一些问题。多重标度表明，通过了解材料的整体和局部性质之间的关系，可以在一个共同的基础上解决从很小到很大的行为。原子、纳米、微观和宏观尺度上的分割结果似乎是不相关的，因为每个尺度范围内的物理规律可能不同。因此，有一些过渡区域的介观力学试图填补空白。为结构和材料的设计和施工共同寻找、共同设计和共同产生最好的解决方案是MESO 2008的目标。

The objective of Meso 2008 is to apply Multiscaling and Mesomechanics for thedevelopment of energy efficient and environment friendly structures and materials. Particular attention will be given to large structures such as buildings, housing and civil engineering structures where much of the primary energy is being consumed by conversion to useful energy such as electricity, heating oil, etc. A selected number of experts with design and construction experience will be invited to lecture on ways for improving the current practice. The interaction should provide an atmosphere of collaboration that is needed to mitigate some of the problems related to the waste of resources causing detrimental effects to the environment. Multiscaling has shown that the behavior of the very small to the very large can be addressed on a common ground by understanding the relations among the bulk and local properties of the materials. The segmented results at the atomic, nano, micro and macro scale appear to be unconnected because the physical laws in each one of the scale ranges can be different. Hence, there are transitional regions where Mesomechanics attempts to fill in the gaps. Co-searching, co-designing and co-producing the best availablesolution for the design and construction of structures and materials is the aim of Meso 2008.