Aiming to provide an international forum for presenting the latest results in nonlinear mechanics and stimulating wider academic exchange for experts in the related fields all over the world, the ICNM-VI (The 6th International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics) was held in Shanghai from August 12 to 15. Prof. Zhou Youhe, Dean of the School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, director of the Key Laboratory of Machanics on Disaster and Environment in Western China (MOE), distinguished professor of the Yangtze River Scholar, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and academic leader of Mechanics at LZU, was invited to attend the conference and made a report titled “Some Development on Investigations of Multi-Fields Coupling-Nonlinear Constitutive Relationships for Giant Magnetostrictive Materials”, which was well received. At the conference, he introduced in detail his research progress on investigations of multi-Fields coupling-nonlinear constitutive relationships for giant magnetostrictive materials and the application of related theories to controlling area, and exchanged ideas with the other international scholars at the meeting.
It’s said that the ICNM conference series was initiated in Shanghai in 1985 by Professor Wei-zang Chien, known as one of the four founders of the contemporary mechanics in China. The previous five ICNM meetings were successfully held in Shanghai and Beijing in 1985, 1993, 1998, 2002 and 2007, respectively. For quite a long time, nonlinear mechanics has served as an important theoretical basis for the development of new technologies and has stimulated great research interests in diverse academic subjects, such as applied mathematics, theoretical physics, system biology, and others. Since the ICNM-V held in Shanghai in 2007, this field has been experiencing further remarkable advances and found its more extensive applications, in particular, in the areas of material technology, micro/nano-technology, biotechnology, energy technology and environmental engineering etc. The ICNM-VI aims to provide an international forum for presenting the latest results in nonlinear mechanics and stimulating wider academic exchange for experts in the related fields all over the world.
