SGER: MRS 2005 Symposium - Coupled Non-linear Phenomena: Modeling and Simulation for Smart, Ferroic and Multiferroic Materials

该提案寻求资金支持将于2005年在旧金山举行的MRS Spring会议上举行的技术研讨会“耦合非线性现象：智能、铁性和多铁性材料的建模和仿真”。研讨会讨论多铁性材料的领域，例如铁电性、铁磁性、磁致伸缩材料、形状记忆合金、铁磁性形状记忆合金，这些材料正越来越多地被用作从微观(MEMS)到宏观(智能航空航天和民用系统)的许多尺度的结构系统中的主动材料致动器和传感器。这次研讨会具有强烈的跨学科焦点，将当前的建模工作与最近的实验结果和应用相结合，预计将交叉促进所有三个领域的研究活动。组织者努力将该领域的知名国际专家聚集在一起，目的是概述这一重要的多学科领域的最新发展。我们的愿景是将这次研讨会作为MRS会议的常态化部分，我们努力吸引高素质的研究人员来帮助会议有一个良好的开端。基金的目的是为受邀演讲者以及研究生提供部分支持。就更广泛的影响而言，研讨会的论文将在同行审查程序后作为本次会议THEMRS会议记录的一部分发表。此外，最佳论文将作为斯普林格杂志《连续介质力学》的特刊发表

ABSTRACTThe proposal seeks financial support for the technical symposium "Coupled non-linearphenomena: Modeling and simulation for smart, ferroic and multiferroic materials" to beheld at the MRS Spring Meeting 2005 in San Francisco.The symposium addresses the field of multi-ferroic materials like, e.g., ferroelectrics,ferromagnetics, magnetostrictive materials, shape memory alloys, ferromagnetic shapememory alloys, which are increasingly being used as active materials actuators andsensors in structural systems across many scales from micro level (MEMS) to macrolevel (smart aero space and civil systems). The symposium has a strongly interdisciplinary focus, combining current modeling efforts with recent experimentalresults and applications, and is expected to cross-fertilize research activities in all threefields.The organizers have strived to bring together well-known international experts in thefield and the intent is to give an overview the current state-of-the-art of this importantmulti-disciplinary field. It is our vision to establish this symposium as a regular part ofthe MRS meeting, and we made an effort to attract high-quality researchers to help thesymposium to a good start. Funds are intended to provide partial support for the invited speakers as well as for graduate students.In terms of broader impact, papers from the symposium will be published as part of theMRS proceedings of this conference after a peer review process. Additionally, the bestpapers will be published as a special issue of the Springer journal Continuum Mechanics