バイオエンジニアリング部門ＭＬ各位 名古屋工業大学の松本健郎です． スウェーデンの王立工科大学のGasser教授より，来年７月にソウルで開催される World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM2016)　のミニシンポジウム 'Computational Biomechanics'のお知らせを頂きましたので，転送します： Dear Takeo, Hope you are doing fine these days! Encouraged by the success of our mini-symposium at the last WCCM2014 (it was amongst the largest) we decided to organize another Mini-symposium 'Computational Biomechanics' (details see below)　within the 12th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM2016) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI), which will be held together in Seoul, Korea, July 24 - 29, 2016. Knowing your research activity in this field we would like to invite you (or someone from your group) to give a presentation in this symposium. We hope to have piqued your interest and please let us know whether or not you will accept this invitation. Also, we would be grateful if you could pass the information to colleagues of yours to whom it might be useful. Please notice that all abstracts will be reviewed and that the submission is due by November 30th, 2015. With best regards, T. Christian Gasser Department of Solid Mechanics, School of Engineering Sciences The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. gasser@kth.se http://hallf-dom.hallf.kth.se/vascumech/ Miguel Cerrolaza International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, (CIMNE) Barcelona, Spain National Institute of Bioengineering (INABIO) Caracas, Venezuela mcerrolaza@cimne.upc.edu Ellen Kuhl Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, US. ekuhl@stanford.edu Michael W. Gee Munich School of Engineering (MSE)& Mechanical Engineering Faculty Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany gee@lnm.mw.tum.de Everling Davila National Institute of Bioengineering (INABIO) Caracas, Venezuela. everling.davila@inabio.edu.ve Thomas Franz Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. thomas.franz@uct.ac.za -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract. Computational mechanics plays prominent roles in the study of biological systems and processes. It may advance our understanding of physiological and pathological mechanisms of organs, interaction between medical devices and biological material, drug delivery pathways, the interplay between structure and function of tissues, mechanotransduction and many others. Although to some extent traditional applied mechanics concepts are directly applicable to solve biomechanical problems, the inherent property of biological tissue to adapt to mechanical and biochemical environments, remains a challenging modeling task. Likewise, in order to investigate entire biological organs adequately, i.e., to gain a comprehensive view of a biological process, sophisticated and robust numerical schemes are needed to couple among structural, fluid, chemical and electrical fields. On the other hand, the inter-patient variability of input parameters such as loading conditions or constitutive properties weakens the patient-specific predictability, and hence the clinical benefit, of numerical simulations. Finally, laboratory testing of biological systems is constraint, where ethical aspects of sample harvesting and maintaining an adequate testing environment are mentioned specifically. For this minisymposium, we solicit contributions that address challenges directly related to bioengineering, i.e., solving structural, hemodynamical, chemical and electrical life science problems. This includes investigations at the organ, tissue and cellular levels. Contributions that consider o novel numerical concepts o coupled and multiscale analyses o novel constitutive models that account for non-linearities and/or multiscale approaches o applications with potential clinical relevance o physiological and pathological mechanisms o Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses o active/growth/remodeling properties of biological tissues o non-linear rheological models o clotting and thrombus formation modeling o inverse and in-vivo parameter estimation o medical image-based studies are particularly welcome. Deadline for submitting abstracts: November 30, 2015. **** << Takeo MATSUMOTO, Ph.D., Professor (takeo@nitech.ac.jp) >> **** Biomechanics Lab, Dept Mech Engng, Nagoya Inst Tech "Omohi" College Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, JAPAN, Tel&Fax +81-52-735-5049 In Japanese：名古屋工業大学 おもひ領域 (機能工学専攻・機械工学科 担当) 　 〒466-8555 名古屋市昭和区御器所町 (Tel&Fax 052-735-5049) **************** <> ****************