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The underlying theme of this symposium, namely the mechanical behaviour of structured media, forms a link which attempts to unify the various areas of research activity devoted to the examination of mechanical properties or engineering applications of materials such as soils, rock, ice, wood, metals, concrete and other composites. The subjects to be covered include: fibre reinforced media, wood and fibrous media, creep and fracture processes in concrete, porous elastic media, fluid saturated media, mechanical behaviour of ice and frozen soils, and microstructural phenomena in fluids.
The symposium is intended as a forum for the exchange of knowledge, experience and newly conceived ideas by bringing together leading scientists and engineers from these selected areas of research activity.
Keynote addresses will be given by distinguished researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanical behaviour of structured media.
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