INDIAN
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
(HQ:
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
[Ph. +91
22 2576-7310, e-mail:
tkant@iitb.ac.in]
The
dawn of this millennium brought an exciting gift to the scientific community of
India - "Indian Association for
Computational
Mechanics (IndACM). In a land, which contributed significantly to
the computational mechanics during the last two decades, this association came
to be a common and formal meeting ground for academicians, researchers,
industrialists and practicing engineers.
On the first of
January 2000, this organization was formally established, with its headquarters
at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076 with the
following objectives:
1. To bring
together people having a common interest in computational mechanics but
belonging to different disciplines.
2. To liaise
with other bodies having common interest (such as
International Association for
Computational Mechanics, Asia - Pacific Association of Computational Mechanics,
etc)
3. To have free
exchange of views in the area of computational mechanics.
4. To organize
meetings/seminars/conferences/conventions/ symposia in the area of computational
mechanics.
5. To engage in
other activities meant to promote development of computational mechanics as a
branch of science and engineering.
The first
general body meeting, convened during the first week of Jan 2000, decided to
extend its invitation to eminent scientists and researchers in this field to
become founder members of IndACM. The response had been quite overwhelming with
close to hundred people becoming members of this association, before the end of
that month itself. Later, IndACM became an affiliate of IACM (International
Association for Computational Mechanics).
To further the
growth of computational mechanics in different disciplines (as well as to meet
its fourth objective), this association recently conducted the First
International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-04).
This is being organized at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (IITK)
during 9-12 December 2004 (Convenors: Professor N G R Iyengar
and Professor Ashwini Kumar ). This congress focussed on
emerging areas such as new computational techniques, high performance computing,
non-linear damage mechanics, composites, smart structures, etc.
Having got the
groundwork ready, the association would now be focusing on promoting
computational mechanics in the country. With the strong academic and industrial
push, already in place, in areas such as computational mechanics (FEA/ CAE) for
analysis and computational geometry (CAD/ CAM) for design manufacturing, IndACM
would be focusing on promoting new areas, which may become the potential
enablers of growth for the country. High performance computing, damage
mechanics, smart structures are few examples, in this direction.
Moving forward,
IndACM might coordinate with other societies in India, for organizing
annual/biennial events apart from encouraging research in the frontier areas and
bringing out papers through appropriate journal(s).
---- Reported by: Dr. Sudhakar R Marur (Editor, IndACM)
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