From August 19 to 21, the Chinese Congressof Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CCTAM) 2013 was held in Xi’an, Shanxiprovince. Delegation of Prof. Ying Luo, including Prof.Jianfei Lu, Prof. Boqiang Xu, Dr. Jianguo Zhu and morethan 10 graduate students of our faculty attended this conference.

More than 2900 experts and scholars from home and aboard exchanged theirviews on the frontier and burning problems of mechanics. Prof. Ying Luo invitedto give a academic lecture on “Engineering structural micro-damage integrateddetection method”.