IASS-IACM 2008 Plenary Lectures:

(1)"Modeling of shells with three-dimensional finite elements" by Manfred BISCHOFF (University of Stuttgart), from the Session: 3D Modeling of Thin-Walled Structures (2)"Nanomechanical resonators and nanofluidic systems" by Harold G. CRAIGHEAD (Cornell University), from the Session: Nano- and Micro-scale Structures
(3)"Analysis and design of materials and structures for attenuating vibration and acoustic response" by Gregory M. HULBERT (University of Michigan), from the Session: Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Structures
(4)"Large shell structures for power generation technologies" by Wilfried B. KRATZIG (Ruhr-University Bochum), from the Session: Spanning Between Theory and Practice
(5)"Answers to three not quite straightforward questions in structural stability" by Herbert A. MANG (Technical University of Vienna), from the Session: Structural Stability
(6)"Computational morphogenesis: Its current state and possibility for the future" by Hiroshi OHMORI (Nagoya University), from the Session: Computational Morphogenesis
(7)"Folding and deployment of stored-energy composite structures" by Sergio PELLEGRINO (California Institute of Technology), from the Session: Deployable Structures and Biological Morphology
(8)"Rigid mechanics and its role in nonlinear structural analysis" by Yeong Bin YANG (National Taiwan University), from the Session: Innovative Analysis Topics