Aim and Scope of the Colloquium

Sponsors

The aim of this Colloquium is to discuss the methods of analytical, numerical and experimental analysis of long flexible structures subject to moving loads and flows. The focus of discussion will be placed on the flow- and moving-load-induced dynamic instabilities and on the situations, in which the load and flow velocities are close to the speed of structural waves. The particular topics to be discussed are:

• dynamic response of long structures to near-critically and super-critically moving loads;

• stability of long structures interacting with moving loads;

• stability of long flexible systems with internal or external axial flow;

• vortex-induced hydro-elastic waves in long submerged pipes and cables;

• aero-elastic waves in long suspension bridges;

• advances in experimental methods and data acquisition techniques in the field of dynamics of long elastic structures;

• propagation and generation of elastic waves in solids and structures with mass transfer;

• mathematical foundations of the theory of wave processes initiated by moving loads and flows.

The first announcement of the Colloquium can be downloaded here (pdf file).