Scientific Boards

Editorial Committees

Editorial Committee of the Sixth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 1999.

Advisory Activities

NSF Workshop on The Statistical Characterization of Material Microstructure and its Relation to Material Performance, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., July 1993.

Scientific Committees

Member of the Scientific Committee of the NSF International Workshop on Fiber Optic Sensors for Construction Materials and Bridges, Newark, NJ, May 1998; preparation of document for the NSF on Research Needs in fiber optic sensors for civil engineering applications.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Science & Technology of Composite Materials (COMAT 2005), Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2005.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 4th International Conference on Science & Technology of Composite Materials (COMAT 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, December 2007.

Technical Program Chair of the 45th Society of Engineering Science Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, October 12-15, 2008.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2010 US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Penn State University , University Park, PA, June 27-July 2, 2010.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2009 Congress on Thermal Stresses, University of Illinois, Urbana, June 1-4, 2009.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 11th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics – PACAM XI, Foz do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil, January 4-8, 2010.

Scientific Committee, 16th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Penn State University, June 27-July 2, 2010.

International Scientific Committee, International Conference on Damage Mechanics, Belgrade, Serbia, June 25-27, 2012.

Scientific Committee, International Conference Continuum Models and Discrete Systems. CMDS – 13, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 20-26, 2013.