MAJOR TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS:
 
  1965 Sixth International Congress on Space Technology and Science, Tokyo, Japan. 
"Instability and Oscillations of an Elastic Strip Under Finite Stretch."
1966 SIAM National meeting, Madison, Wisconsin. 
"Galerkin's Solution to a severely Non-linear Problem of Finite Elastodynamics."
1969 Second CANCAM, Waterloo, Canada.
"A Perturbation method as Applied to Problems of Finite Elastodynamic Deformation."
1970 Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics and Structures, Watertown, Mass.
"Elastic Wave Front Analysis in Unidirectional Composites."
1971 International Symposium on Computer-Aided Engineering, Waterloo, Canada.
"Large Amplitude Oscillations of Laminated Thick-walled Spherical Shells Using Galerkin's Method"
1973 Tenth National Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, N. C. State University.
"Experiment on the Sudden Collapse of Thick-walled Tubes Undergoing Large Elastic Deformations."
1974 ASTM Symposium on Composite Reliability, La Vegas, Nevada
"Thermoelastic Expansion of Graphite-Epoxy Unidirectional and Angle-ply Composites."
International Symposium on Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Kyoto, Japan.
"Time-temperature Creep of a Graphite-Epoxy Composite."
1975 AIAA/SAE 11th Propulsion Conference, Anaheim, Ca.
"Mechanical Behavior of a Polyester Composite Propellant."
AIAA/SAE 11th Propulsion Conference, Anaheim, Ca.
"Humidity effects on the Creep Behavior of a Graphite-Epoxy Composite Material."
ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Houston Texas.
"On Elastic Oscillations of a Thick-walled Cylindrical Shell Subjected to Initial Finite Twist. "
1976 Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics and Structures, Cape Cod, Mass.
"Moisture Effects on the Dynamic Toughness of Graphite-Epoxy Composites."
1977 Symposium on Application of Computer Methods in Engineering, Los Angeles, Ca.
"Analysis of Free Edge Induced Fracture in Fiber Composite Laminates."
14th Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Lehigh University, Pa.
"Edge Stress Singularity in Finite Width Composite Laminates."
1978 ASTM 5th Meeting on Composites, New Orleans.
"Environmental Effects on the Compressive Strength of Composite Laminates."
ICCM - II, Toronto, Canada.
"Alteration of Laminate Free-edge Stresses by Moisture Sorption."
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, San Francisco, Ca.
"A Non-linear Micro-buckling Model Predicting the Compressive Strength of Unidirectional Composites."
DoD-NASA Mechanics of Composite Review. Bergamo Center, Dayton, Oh.
"Statistical Failure Analysis of Composites."
1979 ASTM Symposium on Fatigue of Fibrous Composite Materials, San Francisco, Ca.
"Effects of Proof-Tests on the Strength and Fatigue Life of a Unidirectional Composite."
29th  Mechanical Failure Prevention Symposium, NBS, Gaithersburg, Md. 
"Interlaminar and Intralaminar Failure in Epoxy-based Composite laminates."
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, New York.
"An Energy Method for Multiple Transverse Cracks in Graphite-Epoxy Laminates."
1980 ASME Centennial Meetings, San Francisco, Ca.
"Size Effect on Strength and Fatigue of a Short Fiber Composite Material."
ICCM - III, Paris, France.
"Growth Mechanisms of Transverse Cracks and Ply Delamination in Composite Materials."
ICCM - III, Paris, France.
"Creep Behavior of Glass-Epoxy Composite Laminates Under Hygrothermal Conditions."
ASTM Symposium on Damages in Composite Materials, Bal Harbor, Florida.
"The Dependence of Transverse Cracking and Delamination on Ply Thickness in Graphite- 
 Epoxy Laminates."
DoD-NASA Mechanics of Composite Review. Bergamo Center, Dayton, Oh.
"Delamination Fracture Mechanisms."
17th Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Atlanta, Ga.
"Static and Fatigue Fracture Behavior of A Notched Short Fiber Composite."
1981 Second USA-USSR Symposium on Fracture of Composite Materials, Lehigh Univ. Pa.
"The Fracture mechanics of Transverse Cracking and Delamination in Composites."
1982 U. S. Congress of Applied Mechanics, Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY.
"Stress Analysis of A Multi-layered Plate with a Circular Hole Under Axisymmetric Bending."
ICCM - IV, Tokyo, Japan
"On Mixed-mode Fracture in Off-Axis Unidirectional Graphite-Epoxy Composite."
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, Phoenix, AZ.
"A Theory for Multiple Transverse Cracks in Composite laminates."
DoD-NASA Mechanics of Composite Review. Dayton. Oh.
"Mechanics of Delamination Under Compressive Loads"
1983 AGARD (NATO) Specialists Meetings on Defects in Composite Materials, London.
"Fracture Mechanics of Sublaminate Cracks in Composite Laminates."
U. S. Naval Symp. on NDE and Criticality of Defects in Composite materials, Phila. Pa.
"Interlaminar Stress Fields as Influenced by Two Interacting Flaws."
20th Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Univ. Delaware, Newark, DE.
"Effects of Curing Stress on Interlaminar Cracking in Graphite-Epoxy Laminates."
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, Boston, MA.
"A Stochastic Model for the Growth of Matrix Cracks in Graphite-Epoxy Laminates"
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, Boston, MA.
"Influence of Ply Thickness on Damage Accumulation and Final Failure."
ASTM Symp. on Delamination and Debonding in Composite materials, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
"Delamination Crack Growth in Graphite-Epoxy Laminates."
DoD-NASA Mechanics of Composite Review. Dayton, Oh.
"Interlaminar and Intralaminar Fracture Growth in Composite Laminates."
1984 ASTM Symp. on Composite Materials: Testing and Design. Philadelphia, Pa.
"A Cumulative Damage Model for Matrix Crack Growth in Composite Laminates."
International Symp. on Composites: Materials and Engineering. Univ. Delaware, Newark, DE.
"On Crack Development in Graphite-Epoxy [02/90n]s Laminates Under Uniaxial Tension."
21st Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, VPI & SU, Blacksburg, Va.
"3-D Stress Fields Near Several Interacting Matrix Cracks in Composite Laminates."
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, New Orleans, La.
"On the Strain Energy Release Rate for a Crack at the Interface of Two Bonded Materials."
DoD-NASA Mechanics of Composite Review. Dayton, Oh.
"Cumulative Damage Model for Advanced Composite Materials"
1985 ASME Summer Meetings, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
"Application of Fracture Mechanics to Matrix Cracks in Laminates".
ICCM - V, San Diego, CA.
"Cumulative Delamination Growth in Laminates Subjected to Variable Amplitude Cyclic 
 Loads".
22nd Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Penn State Univ. Pa.
"Fracture Analysis of Matrix Cracks in Laminates".
22nd Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Penn State Univ. Pa.
"Three Dimensional Stresses in Notched Composite Laminates".
1986 27th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS SDM Conference, San Antonio, Texas
"A Study on the Effect of 90o-Ply on Matrix Cracks in Composite Laminates.
 International Symp. on Composites and Structures, Beijing, China
"On Fracture Mechanics of Matrix Cracking in Composite Laminates".
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, Anaheim, CA.
"Fatigue Delamination Growth in Laminated Composites".
1987 Second Technical Conference, Society for Composites. Univ. Delaware, Newark, DE
 "Three Dimensional Simulation of Crack Growth in Notched Laminates".
ASTM Symp. on Composite Materials: Fatigue and Fracture. Cincinnati, Oh.
 "Fatigue Growth of Free Edge Delamination in S2/CE-9000 Glass-Epoxy  Laminates".
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, Boston, MA
 "Simulation of Matrix Cracks in Composite Laminates Containing a Small Hole".
ASME Winter Annual Meetings, Boston, MA.
"Fracture Due to a Kinked Crack in Unidirectional Fiber-reinforced Composites".
28th AIAA/ASME SDM Conference, Monterey, CA.
"Mesomechanics: The Microstructure-Mechanics Connection".
DoD-NASA Mechanics of Composite Review. Bal harbor, Florida.
"On Modeling Intralaminar and Interlaminar Cracks in Graphite-Epoxy laminates".
1988 4th USA-Japan Symposium on Composite Materials, Washington, DC
"Mixed-Mode Strain Energy Release Rates for a Cracked Unidirectional Composite".
ASTM Symp. on Composite Materials: Testing and Design. Reno, Nev.
"A Criterion for Mixed-mode Matrix Fracture in Graphite-Epoxy Composites".
29th Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Berkeley, CA.
"Effective Flaws as Material Property for Matrix Cracking in Composite Laminates".
29th Annual Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Berkeley, CA.
"Stochastic Simulation of Fatigue Delamination Growth".
ASME Winter Annual Meetings. Chicago, IL.
"Interface Bonding and Matrix Cracking in Brittle Matrix Composites".
ASME Winter Annual Meetings. Chicago, IL.
"A Finite Cell Model for 3-D  Braided Composites".
Annual Convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers, Newark, NJ
"The Role Fiber-Matrix  Interface on Strength and Toughness of Ceramic Matrix Composite
  Materials".
1989 1st USSR-USA Symposium On Composite Materials, Riga, USSR.
"On Fiber-Matrix Interface Bonding and Composite Toughness".
Symposium on High Temperature Composites, American Society for Composites, Dayton, OH.
"Matrix Cracking Initiation in Brittle Matrix Composites - Experiment and Predictions".
Symposium on High Temperature Composites, American Society for Composites, Dayton, OH.
"Micromechanics of 3-D Braided MMC."
NASA and DOD Mechanics of Composites Review, Dayton, Ohio..
"Matrix Crack Initiation in Ceramic Matrix Composites".
1990 Guest Speaker, Southwest Mechanics Lecture Series (SwRI, Texas A&M, SMU, U of Houston), March 19-23,.
"On Some Basic Concepts of Strength in Composite Materials".
Seventh CIMTEC World Ceramic Congress, Montecantini, Italy, June.
"Matrix Cracking Stresses in Uniaxially Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites".
NASA/Boeing Composites Review, Seattle, Washington.
"Time-dependent Matrix Cracking in Composite Laminates".
1990 Composites Symposium, Center for Composite Materials, Univ. Delaware.
"Mechanics of Composite Materials".
1991 Invited Speaker, Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware.
Six (6) 2-hour lecture series on "Micromechanics for Composite Materials".
ASTM Symposium on Composite Materials: Fatigue and Fracture. Indianapolis.
"Temperature and Fracture Toughness Effects on Mixed-mode Matrix Splitting".
1st Canadian International Composites Conference and Exhibition, Montreal.
"In-situ Observation of Matrix Cracking Initiation in Ceramic Matrix Composites"
6th Annual Technical Conference, American Society for Composites, Albany, NY.
"The Fiber Pull-Out Problem: Matching of Singular and Complete Stress Fields".
2nd USSR-USA Symposium on Mechanics of Composite Materials, Albany, NY.
"Mechanics of Matrix Damage in Ceramic Matrix Composites".
NASA-DoD Mechanics of Composites Review, Dayton, OH.
"A Comprehensive Study on Matrix Fracture in Ceramic Matrix composites".
1992 2nd International Symposium for Composite  Materials and Structures, Beijing.
Keynote Lecture: "A Probabilistic-Mechanistic Approach of Damage Mechanics for Fiber- 
Reinforced Composites”.
2nd International Symposium for Composite Materials and Structures, Beijing.
"Fracture Initiation in Ceramic Matrix Composites".
2nd International Symposium for Composite Materials and Structures, Beijing.
"A Criterion for Splitting Crack Initiation in Unidirectional Fiber-Reinforced Composites".
7th Technical Conference on Composite Materials, American Society for Composites, Penn State Univ.
"On Fiber Matrix Interfacial Stresses During Fiber Pullout with Thermal Stressing".
Fiber-Tex '92 - the 6th Conference on Advanced Engineering Fibers and Textile Structures for Composites. Drexel Univ.
"The Yarn Structure in 3-D Braided Composites and Evaluation of Their Mechanical Properties".
International Conference On Computational Engineering Science (ICES 92), Hongkong Univ. 
 of Science Technology.
" The Single Fiber Pullout Problem with Perfectly Bonded Interface".
1993 ASTM 5th Symposium on Composite Materials: Fatigue and Fracture, Atlanta, Ga. 
"A Fracture Criterion for Fiber-Wise Splitting".
First Joint ASCE-EMD, ASME-AMD,SES Meeting, Charlottesville, Va.
"Fracture Mechanics and Damage Mechanisms in Fibrous Composites".
First Joint ASCE-EMD, ASME-AMD,SES Meeting, Charlottesville, Va.
"Stress Distributions in Single fiber Pullout Model with Frictional fiber-Matrix Interface".
8th Technical Conference on Composite Materials, American Society for Composites, Cleveland, OH.
“Numerical Simulation of fiber Pullout and Interfacial Strength with Frictional Interface.”
NASA Workshop on Scaling Effects in Composite Materials and Structures.
"Scaling Effects of Defects in Composite Materials".
Taiwan Workshop on Engineering Education Reform in the USA, Taipei, Taiwan.
"A Microscopic View of Drexel University's E-4 Curriculum for Engineering".
1994 1st International Mesomechanics and Mesostructrues Specialist Meeting, Univ. of Toronto.
"Microstructure-Property Relationships in 3-D Braided Fiber Composites".
9th Technical Conference on Composite Materials, American Society for Composites, Univ.Delaware
"On Topological Mapping of Yarn Structures in 3-D Braided Composites".
The 1st International Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans.
"Analysis of Fiber Pullout With Friction Sliding Fiber-Matrix Interface".
9th Technical Conference on Composite Materials, American Society for Composites, Univ. Delaware
"Evaluation of Frame/Skin Bond Strength and Durability  for Advanced Composite Fuselage 
 Crown Structure," 
1995 ASME Symposium Composite Materials, UCLA. 
"Yarn Structures in 3-D Braided Composites Due to Complex Shape Change" 
ICCM-10, Vancouver, Canada 
"Spatial Distribution of Yarns and Thermomechanical Properties in 3-D Braided Tubular Composites" 
International Symposium on Innovative Processing and Characterization of Composite Materials, ASME WAM, San Francisco. 
"Thermoelastic Properties of 3-D Braided Composites: Predictions and Experiment"
1996 ASME Mechanics and Materials Conference, John Hopkins Univ. 
"Compression Failure of A Unidirectional Composite by the IITRI Test Method"
International Conference on Advanced Materials, Beijing, China.
"Formability of 3-D Braided Composites" 
ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
"Failure Mechanisms of 3D Braided Composites Under Pure Bending" 
1997 ICCM-11, Brisban, Australia.
"Stiffness and Strength Properties in 3-D Braided Structural Shapes"
ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas.
"Rational Analysis Methodology for 3D Braided Fibrous Composites"
1998  The Eighth Japan-US  Conference on Composite Materials,  Baltimore, Md.
"Local and Global Properties in 3-D Braided Structural Shapes”
NATO ASI, Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures Workshop, Troia, Portugal
Five-part lecture on “Micromechanics Analysis of Composite Materials”:

Part I: Micromechanics and Composite Microstructures
Part II: Concepts and Criteria of Material Failure in Composites
Part III: Fracture Mechanics: Computation and Simulation Methods
Part IV: Multiple Fractures and Probabilistic Micromechanics
Part V: Matrix Cracks and Delaminations in Laminates.

ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim CA.
“Free Edge Delamination in Layered Composites - A Historical Review of the Past 30 Years”
1999 Invited Speaker, Nowinski Symposium University of Delaware.
"De-homogenization of Fiber-reinforced Composite materials"
Invited Speaker, Composites-2000- An International Symposium, Univ. of Del. 
"On Ply Failure Criteria in Laminate Design"
2000 American Society for Composites 15th Annual Technical Meeting, Texas A & M Univ.
"A Design and Analysis Methodology for 3D Braided Structural Shapes"
ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
"An Assessment of the Ply-Failure Criteria Used in Laminate Design."