Siegmund co-chairs this event with Francois Barthelat, Professor at McGill University. IUTAM is the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. IUTAM, through the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics USNC/TAM, awarded a total of only four IUTAM symposia (two in fluid and two in solid mechanics) to the USA for 2018.

Architectured materials are an emerging and exciting class of materials with the promise of advantageous performance and multifunctional properties. These materials are characterized by specific and periodic structural features which are larger than what is typically considered a microstructural length scale (such as a grain size) but smaller than the size of the final component made of the architectured material. This class of materials includes but is not limited to lattice materials and cellular material systems, dense material systems composed of building blocks of well-defined size and shape. This IUTAM symposium will provide a state of the art on the engineering science of architectured materials and focus on the mechanics, design, fabrication and mechanical performance of all categories of architectured materials including but not limited to lattice materials, metamaterials and topologically interlocked materials.

Over 90 participants will contribute presentations, posters and discussion to the three-day program. The participations are faculty, post docs and graduate students from international with participants
from leading US universities, and from universities in France, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada Israel, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Poland.

Several Purdue faculty members, post doctoral research associates and graduate students from the College of Engineering and from the Department of Computer Science will present their research.  The event is support by awards from IUTAM and the National Science Foundation.

Details of the program and the event are available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/IUTAM2018AMS/