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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a presentation to the <br />mini-symposium "<b>INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS</b>" <br />chaired by Marcela Goldschmit and José Risso, at 1<sup>st</sup> Pan-American <br />Congress on Computational Mechanics <b>PANACM 2015,</b> Buenos Aires, <br />Argentina, 27-29 April 2015 (</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://congress.cimne.com/PANACM2015/frontal/default.asp" target="_blank">http://congress.cimne.com/PANACM2015/frontal/default.asp</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> ). </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">We would be very glad if you agree to be one of the contributing <br />authors to the symposium related sessions.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Please note that the conference program will accept only one <br />presentation per registered person. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">We would appreciate receiving your reply by next June 1st, stating <br />your interest in submitting a paper. Regretfully, the <b>PANACM <br />2015 </b>organizers are unable to provide travel support or waive the <br />registration fee. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Please, share this invitation with your colleagues and students. It <br />will help us too much.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><br />Looking to hearing from you soon, and hoping to have a good <br />reception of this invitation. <br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Marcela <br />Goldschmit<br />Sim&Tec, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA <br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">e-mail <br />: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:mcruchaga@usach.cl" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">m</span></a><a href="mailto:goldschmit@simytec.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">goldschmit@simytec.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">José <br />Risso</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">This <br />mini-symposium is intended to share experiences and discuss opportunities for <br />application of numerical methods to the resolution of engineering problems <br />related to industrial and government activities. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Both <br />researchers and project/design engineers are encouraged to show the evolution in <br />application of computational methods to solve industrial problems in their <br />fields, and the opportunities to improve the results that could be <br />obtained. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Some <br />topics that could be treated in this mini-symposium <br />include: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">- <br />Industrial installations and their components </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">- <br />Structures and their components </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">- Pressure <br />vessels and reactors </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">- <br />Manufacturing processes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">- <br />Modelling of industrial physical and chemical <br />processes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">- Failure <br />analysis and forensic engineering </span></p>
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