The Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis Conference will be held in Glasgow, UK, on August 29–31, 2012. The conference will present international research in the fields of vibration analysis and stress analysis and technical areas where they intersect.

Among the confirmed speakers are J.R. Barber (University of Michigan, USA) who will present a talk on “Frictional systems under periodic loads”; W. Lacarbonara (La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), “Nonlinear dynamics enabled systems design and control”; F. Pierron (Arts et Métiers, Paris Tech, France), “A novel photomechanical approach to dynamic testing of materials”; W. Ostachowicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk, Poland), “Structural health monitoring by means of elastic wave propagation”; and J. Warminski (Lublin University of Technology, Poland), “Nonlinear phenomena in mechanical systems dynamics.”

The abstract deadline is March 14, 2012.

The conference is organized by the Institute of Physics Applied Mechanics Group and co-sponsored by NAFEMS. It is endorsed by the Materials Research Society.

For further information, visit http://mpsva2012.iopconfs.org.