Computational methods and experimental measurements

CMEM'99, the ninth international conference on computational methods and experimental measurements, will be held in Sorrento, Italy, from 17 to 19 April 1999. The conference will be organised by the University of Naples, Italy, and the Wessex Institute of Technology, United Kingdom, and will provide a forum for the review of the latest work on interaction between numerical methods and experimental measurements.

While computer models have been increasingly successful in simulating an ever widening range of engineering problems, it is nevertheless essential that advances in these models are validated and verified with experiments. Experimental measures are themselves conditioned to the requirements of computational models and it is therefore important that scientists working on experiments communicate with researchers developing computer codes and those carrying out measurements on prototypes.

The following themes will be discussed in detail during the conference:

- Experimental versus analytical or numerical models;
- Interaction of computer codes and experimental models;
- Material property characterisation through numerical models and experiments;
- Computer interaction and control of real-time experiments, interfaced with computational models;
- System implementation for data acquisition and processing phases.
For further information, please contact:

Wessex Institute of Technology
CMEM'99
Conference Secretariat
Sally Radford
Ashurst Lodge
Ashurst
Southampton SO40 7AA
United Kingdom
Tel. +44-1703-293223; Fax +44-1703-292853
E-mail: sradford@wessex.ac.uk