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ACI: American Concrete Institute

ACM: The Association for Computing

ASCE: American Society of Civil Engineers

ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials

CISM: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences

DGM:  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde

ECCOMAS: European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences

ESWM: European Society for Wood Mechanics

IA-FraMCoS: International Association for Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures

IABSE: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering

IACM: International Association for Computational Mechanics

IASSAR:  International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability

ICIAM: International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

IUTAM: International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

NAFEMS: The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community

RILEM: International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures

SEM: Society for Experimental Mechanics

SES: Society of Engineering Science

USACM: United States Association for Computational Mechanics


Funding Sources

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

European Commission - 6th Framework Program, Marie Curie Actions 

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Swiss National Science Foundation

Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation

U.S. National Science Foundation


Publishing Houses

Academic Press

Addison Wesley Longman

Begell House

Cambridge University Press

Chapman and Hall

Civil-Comp Press

Computational Mechanics Publications

CRC Press

Elsevier Science:

Hermes

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Marcel Dekker

MCB University Press

MIT Press

Saxe-Coburg Publications

Springer Science

Technomic Publishing Co.

Techno-Press

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WIT Press

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Journals

The first three columns give the 2001-2004 Impact Factors according to the ISI Journal Citation Reports. A higher number means a larger impact of the journal.
 




Advanced Cement Based Materials
0.371
0.404
0.578
0.529
Cement and Concrete Composites
0.738
0.764
0.641
0.834
Cement and Concrete Research
0.302
0.346
0.450
0.476
Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
0.946
0.950
0.818
0.764
Computational Mechanics
0.913
0.957
1.252
1.263
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

1.256


Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences




Computers and Concrete
0.418
0.688
0.634
0.741
Computers and Structures
0.434
0.575
0.536
0.295
Engineering Computations
0.629
0.912
1.308
1.299
Engineering Fracture Mechanics




European Journal of Finite Elements
0.843
0.950
1.000
0.862
European Journal of Mechanics (A) Solids
0.600
0.731
0.691
0.954
Experimental Mechanics
0.564
0.632
0.843
0.620
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design




International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering

0.621
0.594
0.758
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
1.239
1.468
1.691
1.501
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
0.799
0.791
0.735
1.065
International Journal of Engineering Science
0.957
0.705
1.014
0.874
International Journal of Fatigue
0.767
0.797
1.008
0.950
International Journal of Fracture
1.212
2.464 2.768
3.819
International Journal of Plasticity
1.073
1.080 1.327
1.378
International Journal of Solids and Structures
0.710

0.719

Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE
2.521
2.364
2.885
3.443
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids




SIAM Journals Online
1.297
1.374 1.076
1.106
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
1.293
1.291 1.379
1.231
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
0.162
0.189
0.468

Structural Engineering and Mechanics



Scientific Conferences

 1999-2005 2006 2007





2006

Euro-C 2006: Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, Mayrhofen, Austria, 27-30 March 2006

Second fib Congress, Naples, Italy, 5-8 June 2006

ECCM-2006: 3rd European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-9 June 2006

15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, Colorado, 25-30 June 2006

THERMEC 2006: International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, Vancouver, Canada, 4-8 July 2006

ECF16: 16th European Conference on Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 3-7 July 2006

STAMM 2006: International Symposium on Trends in Applications  of Mathematics to Mechanics, Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2006

WCCM 2006: Seventh World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, California, 16-22 July 2006

Mesomechanics 2006: Multiscale Behavior of Materials and Structures, Porto, Portugal, 19-22 July 2006

5th World Congress of BiomechanicsMunich, Germany, 29 July - 4 August 2006

ESMC 2006: 6th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 28 August - 1 September 2006

ECCOMAS CFD 2006: European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, 5-8 September 2006

CST 2006: Eighth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 12-15 September 2006

ICNAAM 2006: International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics,  Hersonnisos, Crete, Greece, 15-19 September 2006

2007

Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils, Weimar, Germany, 7-9 March 2007

Coupled Problems 2007: 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, Ibiza, Spain, 21-23 May 2007

CFRAC 2007: International Conference on Computational Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Nantes, France, 11-13 June 2007

FraMCoS 6: Sixth International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, Catania, Italy, 17-22 June 2007

MHM 2007: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Modelling of Heterogeneous Materials with Applications in Construction and Biomedical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-27 June 2007

Structural Membranes 2007, Barcelona, Spain, 17-19 September 2007



Colleagues and Friends

A number of finite element people are included in the list of L.P. Franca.

The site of the ALERT network features a list of researchers in the area of geomaterials .

  If you want to break something, contact the Cornell Fracture Group of Tony Ingraffea, or the Computational Fracture Mechanics Group of Robert H. Dodds (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

  Edward J. Garboczi and Dale P. Bentz at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently put on the web an extensive monograph on Modelling the Structure and Properties of Cement-Based Materials. Much of the work was done in collaboration with researchers involved in the NSF Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials.

Petr Krysl is a former member of the Computational Mechanics Group at Northwestern University, directed by Ted Belytschko. Then he went to CalTech, and recently he became an assistant professor at UCSD.

Robin Thomas is my high-school classmate, now a math professor at Georgia Tech. He has improved the proof of the famous Four Color Theorem.

  Jan Cervenka got his PhD from Boulder and now he works at his father's consulting company in Prague.

Dan Rypl at the Czech Technical University in Prague is deeply involved in the 3D mesh generation business.

Rosta Chudoba is a computer wizzard from Prague, now working in Aachen, Germany. His colleague, Carsten Koenke, has coupled a micromechanics based void-growth model with a macrocrack model and implemented it into FRANC-2D. He is also interested in adaptive techniques for nonlinear finite element simulations.

   My friends at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Ignasi Carol and Pere Prat, are trying to boost a doctoral program of graduate studies in English. The UPC campus also hosts the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), which distributes the personal pre/postprocessor GID.

   Swedish universities: Technical University of Lulea, Chalmers University in Göteborg, and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

   Dutch connection: Marc Geers at Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology, MACSI-net.

Some other interesting  web sites: Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich,  Volker Slowik  in Leipzig, Universitaet Stuttgart, Victor Saouma at Boulder, Structural Engineering Department at Politecnico di Milano, Ecole Normale Superieure at Cachan, and Francisco Armero at Berkeley.



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