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。将特别注意大型结构，如建筑物，住房和土木工程结构，其中大部分主要能源消耗转化为有用的能源，如电力，取暖油等，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合作的气氛，这是缓解与浪费资源对环境造成有害影响有关的一些问题所必需的。多尺度已经表明，通过理解材料的体积和局部性质之间的关系，可以在一个共同的基础上解决从非常小到非常大的行为。在原子、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定律可能不同。因此，存在过渡区域，细观力学试图填补空白。Meso 2008的目标是共同寻找、共同设计和共同生产结构和材料设计和施工的最佳解决方案。

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.