The International Engineering Mechanics Forum, 2020 (IEMForum 2020)

Background and Objective

This is the website of the International Engineering Mechanics Forum, 2020 (IEMForum 2020). The last forum was held at Chengdu of China in 2018.

Engineering Mechanics is the application of mechanics to solve problems involving common engineering elements. In civil engineering, Engineering Mechanics may relate to many fields including earthquake engineering, computational mechanics, computer-aided engineering, dynamics of structures, experimental analysis and instrumentation, inelastic behavior of solids and structures, probabilistic methods, properties of materials, fracture mechanics, stability of structures and systems, and so on.

In order to promote modern engineering mechanics theory and its application, to assist and advance research and development in engineering mechanics, to further the exchange of information in this field, the International Engineering Mechanics Forum, 2020 (IEMForum 2020) will be held on Feb. 22-25, 2021 in the Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan. We are grateful to the contributions from the participants and authors.

Specific topics of this forum include, but are not limited to:

• Earthquake engineering

• Computational mechanics

• Computer-aided engineering

• Dynamics of structures and soil

• Inelastic behavior of solids and structures

• Probabilistic methods

• System reliability

• Fracture mechanics

• Random vibrations and stochastic mechanics

• Geotechnical reliability

• Performance-based design methods

• Others