Call for Papers

 

Additive and Advanced Manufacturing

Organized by: SEM Additive and Advanced Manufacturing Technical Division

Additive and Advanced Manufacturing is an emerging area due to the unprecedented design and manufacturing possibilities offered by new and evolving advanced manufacturing processes and the rich mechanics issues that emerge. Technical interest within the Society spans several other SEM Technical Divisions. The track on the mechanics of additive and advanced manufacturing will cover topics including design, optimization, experiments, computations, and materials for advanced manufacturing processes with particular focus on mechanics aspects (e.g. mechanical properties, residual stress, deformation, failure, rate-dependent mechanical behavior, etc.).

Soliciting Additive and Advanced Manufacturing abstracts for the 2025 SEM Annual Conference. Topics include, but not limited to:

• Mechanics of materials made via additive and advanced manufacturing (including dynamic behavior, fracture and fatigue, residual stresses, microstructure)
• Novel manufacturing approaches for additive and advanced manufacturing (including new processes and repair and standardization of existing structures)
• Design and process optimization of additive and advanced manufacturing
• Novel materials for additive and advanced manufacturing (including polymers, composites, biomaterials, recycled materials, and ceramics)
• Topology optimization of structures processed through advanced or additive manufacturing
• Functionally graded materials or structures processed through advanced or additive manufacturing
• Microscale advanced/additive manufacturing with micron-level structures (small scale structures)
• Applications of additive and advanced manufacturing

Proposed sessions include, but are not limited to:

• Process-Structure-Property relationships in advanced materials
• Novel Testing Methods
• Novel Processing Methods
• Process Monitoring of AM Materials
• Applications of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing
• AM Metals
• Novel Structures and Design

Papers are also welcomed to be submitted for co-organized sessions with the following technical divisions:

• Dynamic Behavior of Materials
• Fracture and Fatigue
• Residual Stress
• Time-Dependent Materials
• 11th International Symposium on the Mechanics of Composite and Multifunctional Materials

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics

Organized by: SEM Optical Methods Technical Division

Organizers:
Chi Hung Hwang, TIRI, NARLabs—Taiwan
Gordon Shaw, NIST—USA
Motoharu Fujigaki, University of Fukui
Cosme Furlong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Description:
Recognizing that optical methods are widely used by the Experimental Mechanics community; this track aims to encourage the exchange of ideas and promote cross-fertilization among various disciplines. The track covers a broad range of optical methods, including interferometric, DIC, DVC, hybrid methods, multiscale optical measurements, computer vision, photonics and micro-optics, photonic Doppler velocimetry, as well as associated applications. Papers on additional emerging optical methods as applied to experimental mechanics are also of interest and encouraged.

In 2025, the OMTD will expect more participants from industries to foster interaction between industries and academic colleagues. Aside from optical methods on mechanics, learning from the experience of DIC challenges, the OMTD urgently needs the Optical Methods tracks to include activities on research papers regarding the standardization of Optical Methods for measurement.

As part of this track, the OMTD is organizing a distinct session in 2025 to honor Prof. Fu-Pen Chiang, whose contributions have significantly advanced optical methods for NDT/E and various industrial applications.

General Sessions:

Session	Organizers
To celebrate Prof. Fu-Pen Chiang’s Retirement	Austin Giordano, We-Chung Wang, Chi-Hung Hwang
Optical Methods on Bio-Mechanics	Cosme Furlong, Daniel Ruiz-Cadalso
Visualization based Methods	Jonathan Oliveira Luis, Motoharu Fujigaki
Optical Measurement for Industry	Chi-Hung Hwang, Gordon Shaw, Motoharu Fujigaki
DIC Challenge	Phillip Reu, Helena Jin
DIC Applications	Phillip Reu, Helena Jin, Ming-Tzer Lin
Standardization of Optical Methods	Phillip Reu, Gordon Shaw
In-Situ Optical Methods on Manufacturing Quality Control	Koray Senol, Cosme Furlong, Motoharu Fujigaki, Chi Hung Hwang
Optical methods in micro- and nano-systems	Cosme Furlong, Gordon Shaw
New optical methods in experimental mechanics	Cosme Furlong, Gordon Shaw, Motoharu Fujigaki, Chi Hung Hwang
Holographic and LDV methods	Cosme Furlong, Chi Hung Hwang
General topics in Photoelasticity and Interferometry	Wei-Chung Wang, Ming-Tzer Lin, Terry Chen

Special Session to Celebrate Prof. Fu-Pen Chiang’s Retirement
Prof. Fu-Pen Chiang is well recognized for his contribution to photoelasticity, moiré methods, speckle photography, and digital speckle techniques across a variety of length scales from nano to macro and their applications to stress analysis (including NDE), fracture, and fatigue of engineering and biological materials and structures. The special sessions will celebrate his retirement after 57 years of service at Stony Brook University. Prof. Chiang is a Fellow of four major professional societies: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for Experimental Mechanics, the Optical Society of America, and SPIE – the International Society of Optics and Photonics. He received the M.M. Frocht Award (2008), the B.J. Lazan Award (1993), the P.S. Theocaris Award (2015) from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, the Life Time Achievement Medal (2012) from the International Conference of Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences, and the Life Time Achievement Award (2016) from the International Conference of Experimental Mechanics. Knowing he decided to retire from Stony Brook University, it is a great privilege to host special sessions to appreciate and honor his contribution to optical methods to experimental mechanics and industry applications.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials

Organized by: SEM Dynamic Behavior of Materials Technical Division

The Dynamic Behavior of Materials track was initiated in 2005 and reflects our efforts to bring together scientists and students interested in the dynamic behavior of materials and structures, to provide a forum to facilitate technical interaction and exchange, and to disseminate leading edge research in dynamic material behavior to the wider experimental mechanics community. We strive to expand our collaborations with other SEM tracks and topics, and to improve diversity and inclusivity in our scientific community because science moves fastest when diverse viewpoints can be brought to bear to solve tough problems.

Soliciting Dynamic Behavior of Materials abstracts for the 2025 SEM Annual Conference. Topics include, but not limited to:

• Dynamic Behavior of Additively Manufactured Materials
• Dynamic Behavior of Brittle Materials and Geomaterials
• Dynamic Behavior of Low Impedance Materials
• Shock and Blast
• Quantitative Visualization of Dynamic Events
• Inverse Methods in Dynamic Testing
• Dynamic Fracture and Fragmentation

Proposed sessions include, but are not limited to:

Session	Organizers
Dynamic Behavior of Brittle Materials and Geomaterials	Brett Williams, Addis Kidane, Mohamed Abbas
Dynamic Behavior of Low Impedance	Andrew Matejunas, Jennifer Jordan
Quantitative Visualization	Emily Pittman, Vignesh Kannan
Novel Experimental Techniques	Nathan Spulak, Trey Leonard
Shock Failure	Helios Matos, Piyush Wanchoo
Shock Loading	Finnegan Wilson, Helios Matos
Impact/Penetration	Brady Aydelotte, George Vankirk
Dynamic Behavior of AM Materials	Trevor Fleck, Suraj Ravindran, Behrad Koohbor
Standardization and Automation of Dynamic Testing	Matt Shaeffer, Arezoo Zare, Andrew Roginski
Dynamic Behavior of Energetic Materials	Tom Kosta, Trey Leonard
Dynamic Behavior of Composites	Drew Hackney, Helios Matos
Phase Transformations	Vignesh Kannan, Arezoo Zare

Fracture and Fatigue

We invite you to submit a paper to the 2025 Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Meeting (Milwaukee, WI, June 2-5) in one of the many sessions in the Fracture and Fatigue Track. See below for further information on these sessions, and please forward this to others who may be interested.

Abstracts are due October 9, 2024 via the SEM website. When submitting your abstract for a specific session, please enter the name of the session organizer and/or a few keywords relating to the session to help our abstract reviewers place your talk correctly. A list of proposed session topics is below. General submissions are welcome too.

Although SEM encourages the submission of full conference papers or extended abstracts, oral-only presentations are welcome in our Fracture and Fatigue Track sessions.
 

1. Vibration and High Cycle Fatigue
   Organizer(s): Ryan Berke, Leah Ginsberg, Brian Wisner
   Potential topics: Experimental and/or computational modal analysis, non-destructive evaluation, statistical models, error quantification, characterization of fatigued surfaces
2. Brittle Material Failure
   Organizer(s): Scott Grutzik, Kimberly Mac Donald
   Potential topics: Stress corrosion, static fatigue, slow crack growth, indentation and scratch, fast fracture, crack branching, specialized test methods, cyclic fatigue, transformation toughening
3. Damage and Fracture of Highly Deformable Solids – With Time Dependent TD
   Organizer(s): Kimberly Mac Donald
   Potential topics: Particle tracking, large deformation DIC, light scattering, instabilities associated with interfacial and bulk fracture of soft materials, environmental sensitivity
4. Temperature Effects
   Organizer(s): Joe Indeck, Michael Schuster
   Potential topics: High temperature, environmental effects, radiation, corrosion, microstructure, evolution and stability
5. Interface-Mediated Damage and Failure
   Organizer(s): Scott Grutzik, Kimberly Mac Donald
   Potential topics: Thin film layered structures, mixed-mode fracture, cohesive/adhesive failure, traction separation laws, interfacial toughness
6. Fracture and Fatigue in Additively Manufactured Materials– With Additive and Advanced Manufacturing
   Organizer(s): Garrett Pataky, Will LePaige
   Potential topics: Experimental/computational studies linking process, structure, and properties, metals; metals, polymers, ceramics
7. In-situ Techniques and Microscale Effects on Failure and Fatigue
   Organizer(s): Jay Carroll, Kaitlynn Fitzgerald
   Potential topics: In-situ digital image correlation (DIC), neutron diffraction, synchrotron imaging, tomography
8. Mechanics of Electrochemical and Electromechanical Materials
   Organizer(s): John Kolinski, Joe Indeck, Siva Nadimpalli
   Potential topics: Coupled phenomena between mechanical and other physical processes, microstructure/property relationships, phase transformations, multiscale characterizations
9. Advances of Mechanics of Deformation, Plasticity, and Failure
   Organizer(s): J.C. Stinville, Ben Young
   Potential topics: Plasticity, non-linear elasticity, time dependent deformation, novel evaluation techniques, machine learning, data science
10. 3D Characterization of Deformation, Damage, and Failure – With Research Committee
    Organizer(s): Philip Noell, John Kolinski
    Potential topics: New 3D characterization techniques, advances in data analysis for 3D characterization, applications of 3D characterization in material mechanics, integration of 3D data with modeling
11. Integration of Models and Experiments
    Organizer(s): Scott Grutzik
    Potential topics: Coupled computational and experimental investigations, novel integration techniques, material insights via combination of models and experiments, virtual experiments
12. Identification for Fracture and Fatigue – With Inverse Methods and Machine Learning
    Organizer(s): John Considine
    Potential topics: Early crack detection, fracture mechanism identification, improved factors of safety, fracture site predictions

We are looking forward to seeing you at SEM in 2025!

Sincerely, SEM Fracture and Fatigue Session Organizers:
Garrett Pataky, Chair
John Kolinski, Vice Chair
Kaitlynn Fitzgerald, Secretary
Savi Nadimpalli, Chair of the Abstract Review Committee
Mehedi Hasan Mahfuz, Student/Postdoc Chair of the Abstract Review Committee

Ryan Berke, Leah Ginsberg, Brian Wisner, Scott Grutzik, Kimberly Mac Donald, Joe Indeck, Michael Schuster, Will LePaige, Jay Carroll, J.C. Stimville, Ben Young, Philip Noell

Inverse Methods and Machine Learning

The use of Inverse Methods in Experimental Mechanics is extremely important for solving identification problems when a closed-form solution is not available. Moreover, Inverse Methods can be coupled with Full-Field Measurements, such as Digital Image Correlation, to obtain data-rich experiments that allow for the evaluation of multiple load conditions with a single test. This topic has always been very active within the SEM community. Recently, Machine Learning has also emerged as a powerful method for analyzing large experimental data sets, and its application for material modeling and characterization is rapidly increasing.

The aim of this Track is to gather original and cutting-edge contributions in these two important fields of Experimental Mechanics. A non-exhaustive list of topics related to this Track includes:

• Development and validation of new experiments based on Inverse Methods and Machine Learning
• Improvements of established techniques in terms of accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency
• Uncertainty quantification
• Optimal experiment design and novel specimen geometries
• Application of Inverse Methods/Machine Learning to plasticity, dynamic testing, fracture and fatigue, biological and biomedical applications
• Relevant industrial applications

A list of tentative sessions for the Track is provided below . You can select the one that best fits your work or simply submit to the general session. We look forward to seeing you at the Inverse Methods and Machine Learning sessions during the next SEM Conference!
 

Session	Organizers
Virtual Fields Methods	Marco Rossi
Inverse Methods For Plasticity	Johan Hoefnagels
Optimal experiment design	Sharlotte Kramer
Machine Learning for Material Identification	Michael Mac Isaac
Inverse methods for Dynamic Testing	Marco Sasso
Identification for Fracture and Fatigue	John Considine
Inverse Method on biological and biomedical applications	Nathan Bechle
Industrial application for Material Identification	Pascal Lava

15th International Symposium on the Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials

Organized by: SEM Biological Systems and Materials Technical Division:
Karen Kasza, Chair—Columbia University;
Jonathan Estrada, Vice Chair —University of Michigan;
Alexander McGhee, Secretary—University of Wisconsin, Madison

This symposium is aimed at providing a forum to foster the exchange of ideas and information among scientists and engineers involved in the research and analysis of how mechanical forces interact with the structure, properties, and function of living organisms, microbes, and biological materials. The scope includes experimental, imaging, computational, and mathematical techniques and tools spanning various length and time scales. This symposium, now in its 14th year at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, provides a venue where state-of-the-art experimental methods can be leveraged in the study of biomechanics and mechanobiology. A major goal of the symposium is for participants to collaborate in forming fundamental questions and developing new techniques to address bio-inspired problems in society, human health, and the natural world.

The symposium is soliciting abstracts for cutting-edge research on topics including, but not limited to:

1. Mechanics of the Brain and Traumatic Brain Injury
2. Experimental Techniques in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
3. Time-dependent Behavior of Biological Materials (with Time-Dependent Materials TD)
4. Optical Methods for Biological Materials (with Optical Methods TD)
5. Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Materials
6. Machine Learning and Biological Materials (with Inverse Methods & Machine Learning TD)
7. Novel and Emerging Techniques for Biofabrication and Engineered Living Materials
8. Biofilm Mechanics
9. Mechanics of Multicellular Tissues
10. Cellular Force Generation and Mechanobiology

Thermomechanics and Infrared Imaging

Technical Division (TII-TD)
Dr. Rosa De Finis, Chair
Prof. Suhasini Gururaja, Vice-Chair
Dr. Caroline Winters, Secretary

The TII-TD solicits papers related to the use of thermomechanics and infrared imaging for constitutive modeling, fracture, fatigue, non-destructive evaluation (NDE), and structural health monitoring (SHM) of engineering materials and structures. Other innovative applications of thermal imaging are also encouraged. For 2025, the TII-TD invites you to submit papers to the Thermomechanics and Infrared Imaging track for topics such as:

• Thermomechanics
• Advanced thermographic techniques for SHM
• Thermography-based NDE and process monitoring
• Low-cost thermography applications
• Data fusion with thermographic techniques
• Development and applications of novel temperature sensing
• Joint Session with Fatigue & Fracture of AM materials TD: IR-based techniques to assess fatigue and fracture in AM materials

Additionally, we plan to offer the following course by renowned international experts:

• Thermographic Approaches for Identification of Heat Sources

The TII-TD track within SEM 2025 strongly encourages abstracts with strong industrial relevance. A special session has been created to present industrial case studies (Development and Applications of Novel Temperature Sensing). In addition, a session on the fusion of data acquired using different techniques (Data fusion with thermographic techniques) is intended to showcase interdisciplinary work. These two new sessions aim to enhance the technological knowledge transfer from academia to industry and to boost industrial participation in the SEM Congress.

Thermography techniques have recently been applied to additively manufactured materials for process defect characterization, constitutive modeling, and life estimation. A dedicated session, in collaboration with the Fatigue & Fracture of AM materials TD, will be offered in SEM 2025, titled: IR-based techniques to assess fatigue and fracture in AM materials.

During SEM 2025, we are also offering a newly developed course on Thermographic Approaches for Identification of Heat Sources. In our group, we have pioneers of thermal methods, and the course will be delivered by international experts in the field.

Time-Dependent Materials

The Time-Dependent Materials Technical Division (TD) of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) invites you to submit abstracts for our upcoming sessions at the 2025 SEM Annual Conference. Our division focuses on understanding the mechanical behavior of materials and structures whose mechanical properties evolve over time or change with the loading rate, such as, but not limited to polymers and other soft matter including gels, biological tissues, biomimetic materials, metals, composites, foams, granular media, fluids and glasses. Experimental, theoretical and modeling efforts aimed at characterizing the time-dependent constitutive response and underlying molecular mechanisms are welcome. Abstracts are due October 9, 2024, via the SEM website. When submitting your abstract for a specific session, please enter the session organizer's name and/or a few keywords relating to the session to help our abstract reviewers place your talk correctly. Proposed sessions include, but not limited to:
 

1. Polymer Physics/Mechanics
   Organizers: Pavan Kolluru and Sadeq Malakooti
   Potential topics: Characterizing, constitutive modeling and understanding the molecular mechanisms contributing to the viscoelastic, viscoplastic, hyperelastic and coupled mechanical responses (e.g., thermo-mechanical, chemo-mechanical, magneto-mechanical) of amorphous, semicrystalline, dynamically bonded and liquid crystalline polymers at multiple length scales. Novel experimental and modeling approaches to study these responses are also of interest.
2. Data-driven and High-Throughput Methods in Time-Dependent Materials
   Organizers: Kshitiz Upadhyay and Hongbing Liu
   Potential topics: Machine Learning (ML)-based constitutive models, high-throughput materials testing and characterization, accelerated materials discovery, physics-informed ML, uncertainty quantification, materials informatics, and surrogate and reduced-order modeling.
3. Damage, Fatigue, Fracture, and Durability
   Organizers: Alireza Amirkhizi and Bonnie Antoun
   Potential topics: Multiaxial loading fatigue, cyclic plasticity, fatigue life prediction, creep-fatigue interactions, micromechanisms of damage and fracture, damage evolution and the Remaining useful life (RUL), environmental effects, and non-destructive evaluation.
4. Time Dependences in Composites and Interfaces
   Organizers: Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans and Richard Sheridan
   Potential topics: Viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior in composites and multi-material interphases, time-dependent adhesion and debonding, interfacial phenomena in multifunctional composites, durability of composite-metal interfaces, and self-healing interfaces.
5. Time-Dependent Behavior in Biological Materials (co-organized with the Biological Systems and Materials TD)
   Organizers: Kshitiz Upadhyay and Meredith Silberstein
   Potential topics: Viscoelasticity in tissues, mechanics of damage, growth, repair, and remodeling, mechanobiology of time-dependent processes, in vivo characterization (e.g., elastography and optical coherence tomography), and injury biomechanics.
6. Time-Dependent Behavior in Additively Manufactured Materials (co-organized with the Additive and Advanced Manufacturing TD)
   Organizers: Pavan Kolluru and Alireza Amirkhizi
   Potential topics: Thermo-viscoelasticity response of 3D-printed polymers and multi-materials, creep, fatigue high-temperature performance of AM metals, anisotropic mechanical behavior, multi-axial interfacial response including traction-separation laws, and residual stresses.
7. General: Time-dependent Materials
   Organizers: Pavan Kolluru, Kshitiz Upadhyay, and Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans
   Potential topics: Time-dependent behavior of coatings, high-temperature metals/alloys, glasses, and recycled and sustainable materials, high-temperature corrosion and creep interaction, long-term reliability, and material design for time-dependent applications.

Our sessions will feature keynote talks, cutting-edge research presentations, and interactive discussions, offering a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and opportunities in understanding and engineering time-dependent materials. Join us in advancing the field of time-dependent materials and contribute to the discussions that will shape the future of mechanics and material science.

Sincerely,
Pavan Kolluru, Chair—Texas A&M University
Kshitiz Upadhyay, Vice Chair—Louisiana State University
Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Secretary—Rochester Institute of Technology

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