Monday 8:00 - 8:50 Salomon 101 SES Medal Lecture
Session Chairs: Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston)
Mechanics and Physics of Lipid Bilayers
David Steigmann (U.C. Berkeley)
Monday 9:00 - 10:30
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- An observation on the roughening of the surfaces of rapidly growing cracks in brittle materials
Ben Freund (University of Illinois at U-C) - Experimental and Computational Biomechanics of Human Blood Cell Diseases
Ming Dao (MIT), George Karniadakis (Brown University), Subra Suresh (MIT) - Thermo-mechanical modeling of laser-driven non-contact transfer printing: two-dimensional analysis
Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University)
Session Chairs: Weinong Chen (Purdue), Ghatu Subhash (University of Florida)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Micromechanical Modeling and Analysis of Shape Memory Alloy Composite Materials at Different Scales
Dimitris Lagoudas (Texas A&M - Aerospace Eng.), Brian Lester (Texas A&M - Aerospace Eng.), Austin Cox (Texas A&M - Aerospace Eng.), Theocharis Baxevanis (Texas A&M - Aerospace Eng.) - Cyclic deformation and the interplay between phase transformation and plasticity in shape-memory alloys.
Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology) - Effects of loading frequency on cyclic responses of shape memory alloys
Qingpingng SUN (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech) - Shape memory alloy-based tunable split ring resonators
Abhijit Bhattacharyya (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Vasundara Varadan (University of Arkansas), Mehmet Ozturk (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Liming Ji (University of Pennsylvania ) - Design of ferromagnetic shape memory alloy composites for robust and low-cost actuators under applied magnetic field gradient”
Minoru Taya (University of Washington)
Session Chairs: Jackie Li (City University of New York), Abhijit Bhattacharyya (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- Two Dimensional Green's Function for Anisotropic Bimaterials with Imperfect Interface
Les Sudak (University of Calgary) - Thermal Fluctutions of Lipid Bilayer Membranes: Renormalization of Elastic and Electromechanical
Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston), Liping Liu (Rutgers) - Weyl Geometry and the Nonlinear Mechanics of Distributed Point Defects
Arash Yavari (Georgia Institute of Technolog) - Bi-potential plasticity and parametric hypoplasticity
Joe Goddard (University of California, SD)
Session Chairs: Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston), Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University)
MECHANICS EDUCATION
Mechanics Education
RI Hall 108
- Use of Interactive Games in Mechanics Education
Dr. Shivakumar Ranganathan (American University of Sharjah) - A student-centered laboratory approach for teaching tissue mechanics
Kristen Billiar (Worcester Polytechnic Institut) - First-year Project-Based Engineering Education
Janet Blume (Brown University), Karen Haberstroh (Brown University)
Session Chairs: Thomas Webster (Northeastern University)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Computational Mechanics of Biomembranes
Barus-Holley 160
- The flow of red blood cells through narrow, spleen-like filtering slits
Jonathan Freund (University of Illinois at Urba) - Shape dynamics and lipid hydrodynamics of bilayer membranes
Mohammad Rahimi (), Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech) - Role of Target Geometry in Endocytosis: Laying Down to Stand Up
Sulin Zhang (Penn State University), Changjin Huang (The Pennsylvania State Univers), Yao Zhang (The Pennsylvania State Univers) - Dynamics of a multi-component vesicle in viscous fluids
Shuwang Li (Illinois Institute of Technolo), John lowengrub (UC-Irvine), Jinsun Sohn (UCLA math department), Kai Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Petia Vlahovska (Brown University), Shravan Veerapaneni (University of Michigan)
Electrohydrodynamics and electrokinetics of fluid systems
Barus-Holley 161
- Nonlinear Electrokinetics of Leaky Membranes
Martin Bazant (MIT) - Direct Numerical Simulation of Electrohydrodynamic Chaos Near Ion-Selective Surfaces
Ali Mani (Stanford University), Mathias Andersen (), Clara Druzgalski (Stanford University) - Nonlinear electrophoresis at arbitrary field strengths
Ory Schnitzer (Technion), Ehud Yariv () - Electrophoresis of bubbles
Ory Schnitzer (Technion), Itzchak Frankel (), Ehud Yariv ()
Session Chairs: Aditya Khair (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Kirby (Cornell University)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Experimental Nanobiomechanics
Barus-Holley 163
- Micro-Mechanics of Neuronal Compression II: The Cytoskeleton Strikes Back
Adam Fournier (Johns Hopkins), K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University) - Determination of Correlations between Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Aorta by Nanoindentation Technique
Ali Hemmasizadeh (Temple University), Soroush Assari (Temple University), Michael Autieri (Temple University), Kurosh Darvish (Temple University) - Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cartilage Poroelasticity
Hadi Tavakoli Nia (MIT), Lin Han (), Iman Soltani (), Kamal Youcef-Toumi (), Christine Ortiz (), Alan Grodzinsky () - Role of A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs) in activation of the sickle cell disease red blood cell adhesion receptor BCAM/Lu
Jamie Maciaszek (University of Connecticut), Biree Andemariam (University of Connecticut Health Center), George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut)
Session Chairs: Hadi Tavakoli Nia (MIT), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University)
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 166
- Neuromechanics of neuronal transport
Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Wylie Ahmed (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Alireza Tofangchi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Microphysical Derivation of the Canham–Helfrich Free-Energy Density
Brian Seguin (McGill University), Eliot Fried (McGill University) - Simulation of the defective erythrocyte membrane
HE LI (UCONN), George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut) - Biofilm streamer formation in a microfluidic porous media mimic
Mahtab Hassanpourfard (University of Alberta), Xiaohui Sun (University of Alberta), Amin Valiei (), Yang Liu (University of Alberta), Aloke Kumar (University of Alberta), Thomas Thundat (University of Alberta)
Session Chairs: Kuo-Kang (Isaac) Liu (University of Warwick), Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder)
Mechanics of cell sheets, multicellular assemblies and tissues
Barus-Holley 141
- Emergent Dynamics of Collective and Individual Invasion in Malignant Cancer
Ian Wong (Brown University) - Controlling Embryonic Cell Sheet Migration Using Microfluidics
Melis Hazar (Carnegie Mellon university), YongTae Kim (Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Tech), Lance Davidson (Departments of Bioengineering and Developmental Biology University of Pittsburgh), Philip LeDuc (Carnegie Mellon University), William Messner (Tufts University) - Quantifying stretching and rearrangement in epithelial sheet migration
Rachel Lee (), Douglas Kelley (), Kerstin Nordstrom (), Nicholas Ouellette (), Wolfgang Losert () - Colony Edge Effect on the Cancer Cell Detachment
Yao Zhang (The Pennsylvania State Univers), Changjin Huang (The Pennsylvania State Univers), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University)
Session Chairs: Guy Genin (Washington University), Jeffrey Fredberg (Harvard School of Public Health)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Simulation of Heteroepitaxial Growth using KMC: Lattice and Off-Lattice Approaches
Peter Smereka (Unversity of Michigan), Tim Schulze (University of Tennessee), Henry Boateng (University of Michigan) - Nanoindentation Simulation of a Thin Ni Film Using Hyper-QC
Ellad Tadmor (University of Minnesota), Woo Kyun Kim (University of Minnesota) - Connectivity-based parallel replica dynamics method for simulating chemically reactive systems using ReaxFF reactive force field method
Kaushik Joshi (Penn State University), Adri van Duin (Pennsylvania State University), Sumathy Raman (ExxonMobil) - Atomistic Modeling of Focused Ion Beam Processing
Kallol Das (University of Illinois), Jonathan Freund (University of Illinois at Urba), Harley Johnson (University of Illinois)
Session Chairs: Ellad Tadmor (University of Minnesota), Harley Johnson (University of Illinois)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- High Energy Batteries: Materials Design and Mechanics at the Nanoscale
Yi Cui (Stanford University) - The Effect of Stress and Fracture on Lithiation Kinetics in Silicon Nanoparticles
Matthew McDowell (Stanford University), Seok Woo Lee (Stanford University), Ill Ryu (Stanford University), Chongmin Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), William Nix (Stanford University), Yi Cui (Stanford University) - Fracture of germanium pillar during electrochemical lithiation
Seok Woo Lee (Stanford University), Ill Ryu (Stanford University), Lucas Berla (Stanford University), Matthew McDowell (Stanford University), William Nix (Stanford University), Yi Cui (Stanford University) - Robustness of micro-scaled amorphous silicon during the initial lithiation/delithiation cycle
Lucas Berla (Stanford University), Seok Woo Lee (Stanford University), Ill Ryu (Stanford University), Yi Cui (Stanford University), William Nix (Stanford University)
Session Chairs: Siva Nadimpalli (Brown University), Kejie Zhao (MIT)
Materials for Extreme Environments: Multiscale Experiments and Simulations
Salomon 203
- Dimension Reduction of Irradiation-Induced Defect Properties for Application in 2D Dislocation Dynamics
Ilker Topuz (Materials Innovation Institute & University of Groningen), Erik Van der Giessen (University of Groningen) - Recent progress in dislocation dynamics
Sylvie Aubry (LLNL), Athanasios Arsenlis (LLNL) - Size Effects on the Strength and Ductility of Nanocrystalline Materials
Yong-Wei Zhang (IHCP Singapore) - Damage Mechanisms in Irradiated Metallic Glasses
Richard Baumer (MIT), Michael Demkowicz (MIT)
Session Chairs: Shailendra Joshi (National University of Singapore), Jaafar El-Awady (Johns Hopkins University)
Slip Avalanches in Amorphous Metals
Barus-Holley 168
- Modeling plastic deformation and the dynamics and the statistics of the associated crackling noise in Bulk Metallic Glasses
Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois), James Antonaglia (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), M Wraith (UIUC), Michael Leblanc (UIUC), Wendelin Wright (Bucknell University), Todd Hufnagel (Johns Hopkins University), Peter Liaw (), Junwei Qiao (), J Uhl () - Plastic Deformation of Metallic Glasses
Frans Spaepen (Harvard University), Katharine Jensen (Harvard University), David Weitz (Harvard University) - Study of Serrated Flows in Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs)
Peter Liaw (), Xie Xie (University of Tennessee), James Antonaglia (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Junpeng Liu (), Junwei Qiao (), Yong Zhang (), Gongyao Wang (University of Tennessee), Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois) - Serration Statistics in the stress versus strain curves of Bulk Metallic Glasses: comparing high time-resolution experiments to a simple model
Wendelin Wright (Bucknell University), Rachel Byer (Bucknell University), Xiaojun Gu (Bucknell University), Todd Hufnagel (Johns Hopkins University), James Antonaglia (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Jonathan Uhl (), Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois)
Session Chairs: Todd Hufnagel (Johns Hopkins University), Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Effect of grain size on macroscopic phase transition stress hysteresis of polycrystalline materials
Qingpingng SUN (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech) - Instabilities during Tension-Torsion of Superelastic NiTi Tubes
John Shaw (University of Michigan), Benjamin Reedlunn (Sandia National Laboratories), Samantha Daly (University of Michigan) - Asymmetric Tension/Compression Response of NiTi and its Effect on Bending of Tubes
Nathan Bechle (University of Texas at Austin), Stelios Kyriakides (University of Texas at Austin) - Crack propagation and buckling interaction: The case of tube splitting
ALI LIMAM (INSA Lyon), DINH CUONG TRAN (INSA Lyon)
Session Chairs: Samantha Daly (University of Michigan), Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota)
Multiscale Mechanics of Particulate Media
Sayles 105
- Granular Imipact Dynamics: Grain scale to Macroscale
Abram Clark (Duke University), Robert Behringer () - Soft particle packings near jamming: correlations in static structure
Kamran Karimi (Carnegie Mellon University), Craig Maloney (Carnegie Mellon University) - Imaging Forces on Stressed Spheres
Joshua Dijksman (Duke University), Nicolas Brodu (Duke University), Hu Zheng (Tongji University), Robert Behringer () - Granular Dynamics during Impact
Kerstin Nordstrom (), Emily Lim (), Matt Harrington (), Wolfgang Losert ()
Session Chairs: David Henann (Brown University), Joshua Dijksman (Duke University)
Plasticity at Different Length Scales
CIT 219
- Intergranular Strain Evolution near Fatigue Crack Tips in Polycrystalline Metals
Yanfei Gao (University of Tennessee), Peter Liaw () - Experimental Validation of Crystal Plasticity Models
Jay Carroll (Sandia National Laboratories), Hojun Lim (Sandia National Laboratories), Brad Boyce (Sandia National Laboratories), Corbett Battaile (Sandia National Laboratories), Christopher Weinberger (Sandia National Laboratories) - Deformation Behavior of Magnesium Single Crystals Compressed Along [0001]
Jie Geng (Brown University), Sharvan Kumar (Brown University), Matthew Chisholm (Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ), Raj Mishra (GM Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan, 48090), Anil Sachdev (GM Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan, 48090) - Atomistic Simulations of c+a Pyramidal Slip in Magnesium Single Crystal under Compression
Xiaozhi Tang (MIT & BJTU), Yafang Guo (Beijing Jiaotong University), yue-Sheng Wang (Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Beijing Jiaotong University)
Session Chairs: Jay Carroll (Sandia National Laboratories), Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Wrinkling of Thin PDMS Films on Ecoflex Substrates
Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin) - Wrinkling Crystallography on Curved Surfaces
Miha Brojan (MIT), Denis Terwagne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Pedro Reis (MIT) - Swell Induced Wrinkling and Creasing on the Surface of Hydrogel Bilayers
Zhigen Wu (), Nikolas Bouklas (), Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin) - Buckling to Creasing Transition in Soft Materials
Shengqiang Cai (UCSD)
Session Chairs: Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst), Pedro Reis (MIT)
Symposium in honor of Rod Clifton on the occasion of his 75th Birthday
Salomon 101
- Ruga mechanics and Ruga phase diagrams
Kyung-Suk Kim (Brown University) - Recent Developments in Dynamic Testing of Materials
Amos Gilat (Ohio State University), Jeremy Seidt (Ohio State University) - Dynamically expanding self-similar Inclusions:self-similar Motion
Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San ), Luqun Ni (UCSD) - An investigation on the deformation and failure behaviors of 2D cellular solids
Wei Tong (Southern Methodist University), Lin Wang (Southern Methodist University)
Session Chairs: K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University), Alain Molinari (University of Lorraine)
Monday 10:45 - 12:15
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- The Mechanical Response and Phase Transformation Kinetics of NiTi Under a Rapid Heating Pulse
Doron Shilo (Technion - IIT), Shahaf Vollach (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) - Application of Digital Image Correlation and Acoustic Emission to Determining Materials Properties of Carbon Fiber Composites
Hisham Sawan (The Ohio State University), Mark Walter (Ohio State University) - Microstructural Modeling of Intergranular and Transgranular Failure Modes in crystalline Materials
Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State Universit), Qifeng Wu (N.C. State University) - A fresh look at why spinel outperforms sapphire during ballistic tests despite its inferior properties- A mechanisms perspective
Ghatu Subhash (University of Florida)
Session Chairs: Samantha Daly (University of Michigan), Mark Walter (Ohio State University)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Experimental study on super-resolution imaging with a near-zero effective mass acoustic metamaterial
Xiaoming Zhou (), Gengkai Hu (BIT) - Design of low temperature thermoelectric materials with high efficiencies
Mona Zebarjadi (Rutgers University) - Reformulation of Nosé-Hoover Thermostat for Heat Conduction Simulation at Nanoscale
Jiaoyan Li (The George Washington University), James Lee (George Washington University) - Controllable Microstructure and the Effective Thermophysical Properties of Suspensions under External Fields
Mark Seitel (Rutgers University), Chen Lin (Rutgers University), Wuhan Yuan (Rutgers University), Corinne Baresich (Rutgers University), Stephen Tse (Rutgers University), Liping Liu (Rutgers), Jerry Shan (Rutgers University) - Micromechanics of thermoelectric composites
Jiangyu Li (University of Washington)
Session Chairs: Minoru Taya (University of Washington), Dimitris Lagoudas (Texas A&M University)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- Tension field theory and a far-from-threshold expansion of Föppl–von Kármán equations: Quantitative approach to pattern formation in stressed sheets
Benny Davidovitch (UMass Amherst) - A transversely isotropic visco-hyperelastic constitutive model for soft tissues
Sahil Kulkarni (Texas A&M University), Xin-Lin Gao (University of Texas at Dallas) - What is fundamental - gauge fields or gauge invariance? A perspective from modeling defects in continuum mechanics
Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University) - Pure Complementary Energy Principle and Analytical Solutions to General 3-D Nonlinear Elasticity
David Gao (Univ Ballarat/ANU)
Session Chairs: Joe Goddard (University of California, SD), Arash Yavari (Georgia Institute of Technolog)
MECHANICS EDUCATION
Mechanics Education
RI Hall 108
- Differential Retention in Physics & Engineering Majors
Carolin Cardamone (Brown University) - Increasing interest in mechanics education using on-line tools
Thomas Webster (Northeastern University) - Projects for introductory Newtonian dynamics courses
Allan Bower (Brown University)
Session Chairs: Janet Blume (Brown University)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Computational Mechanics of Biomembranes
Barus-Holley 160
- Electrostatic effects in the mechanics of a cell membrane
Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania) - Sharp Interface Three-Dimensional Electrohydrodynamic Vesicle Simulations: Formulation and Numerical Methods
David Salac (University at Buffalo SUNY), Mohammad Kolahdouz (University at Buffalo SUNY), Prerna Gera (University at Buffalo SUNY) - Morphology and chirality control self-assembly of sickle hemoglobin inside red blood cells
Xuejin Li (Brown University), Bruce Caswell (Brown University), George Karniadakis (Brown University) - TETHERING AND PEARLING OF A SETTLING VESICLE
Gwenn Boedec (IRPHE), Marc Jaeger (M2P2), Marc Leonetti (IRPHE)
Session Chairs: Jonathan Freund (University of Illinois at Urba), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University)
Electrohydrodynamics and electrokinetics of fluid systems
Barus-Holley 161
- Electrokinetic characterization of Zeonor and Nafion Surfaces: Onsager kinetic matrices for polymer-water systems
Brian Kirby (Cornell University) - Nonlinear electrophoresis of ideally polarizable particles: a numerical approach
Bruno Figliuzzi (MIT), Cullen Buie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Wai Chan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Streaming potentials near a rotating disk bearing a thick fuzzy surface layer
Dennis Prieve (Carnegie Mellon University), Paul Sides (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) - Theoretical investigation of polarizability of soft biological particles
Naga Neehar Dingari (MIT ), Cullen Buie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Zachary Gagnon (Johns Hopkins University), Martin Bazant (MIT)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Experimental Nanobiomechanics
Barus-Holley 163
- Biological ferroelectricity in aortic walls
Jiangyu Li (University of Washington) - Structural and Mechanical Studies of the Individual Building Block of a Natural Transparent Armor of Placuna placenta
Ling Li (MIT), Christine Ortiz () - A living artificial swimmer from soft flagella and cardiac cells
Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Brian Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sandeep Anand (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Session Chairs: Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC)), Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba)
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 166
- Mechanics of Bacterial Osmotic Shock
William Klug (UCLA) - Biocompatible Nanoparticles Trigger Rapid Bacteria Clustering
Anubhav Tripathi (Brown University) - In vivo Mechanical Behavior of Drosophila Neurons
Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Arizona State University), Alireza Tofangchi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba) - Tonic PKA activity regulates the expression of native SK channels in living neurons
Krithika Abiraman (University of Connecticut), Anastasios Tzingounis (University of Connecticut), George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut)
Session Chairs: William Klug (UCLA), Kai-Tak Wan (Northeastern University)
Mechanics of cell sheets, multicellular assemblies and tissues
Barus-Holley 141
- Biological Stability and Adaptivity of Arteries Subject to Stress-Mediated Growth and Remodeling
Christian Cyron (Yale University), Jay Humphrey (Yale University) - Elastin in arterial ECM: mechanical properties, biochemical degradation, and microstructures
Katherine Zhang (Boston University) - Probing the membrane characteristics and long-term volumetric response of live cells
T.H. Hui (The University of Hong Kong), Yuan Lin (The University of Hong Kong), A.H.W. Ngan (The University of Hong Kong) - Cardiac pathologies emerging from collective cellular behavior: a study of cardiac fibrosis in vitro and in silico
Teresa Abney (), Kenneth Pryse (), Ali Nekouzadeh (), ShengLin Lee (), William McConnaughey (), Elliot Elson (), Guy Genin (Washington University)
Session Chairs: Katherine Zhang (Boston University), Ian Wong (Brown University)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Non-Associated Plastic Flow
John Bassani (University of Pennsylvania) - Investigation of grain size effects and other stacking fault width dependencies using a DFT-informed 3D phase field dislocation dynamics (PFDD) model
Abigail Hunter (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Irene Beyerlein (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Timothy Germann (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - Multiscale Crystal Defect Dynamics: A nonlocal strain gradient process zone approach
Shaofan Li (University of California)
Session Chairs: Shaofan Li (University of California), John Bassani (University of Pennsylvania)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- In-situ Mechanics on lithiation process at nano and atomistic scale
Scott Mao (Dept of Mechanical Eng. and materials Science, University of Pittsburgh), Li Zhong (Dept of Mechanical Eng. and materials Science, University of Pittsburgh), Jiangwei Wang () - In-situ TEM experiment of quantitative tensile strength measurements of lithiated nanowires
Akihiro Kushima (MIT), Jianyu Huang (), Ju Li (MIT) - In Situ TEM Study of Self-healing Gallium Nanodroplets under Electrochemical Cycling
Wentao Liang (Penn State University), Liang Hong (Penn State University), Hui Yang (Penn State University), Long-Qing Chen (Penn State University), Jianyu Huang (), Ting Zhu (), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University) - Two-Phase Electrochemical Lithiation in Amorphous Silicon
Feifei Fan (Georgia Tech), Ting Zhu (), Jiangwei Wang (), Scott Mao (), Shuman Xia (Georgia Tech)
Session Chairs: Ting Zhu (), Scott Mao (Dept of Mechanical Eng. and materials Science, University of Pittsburgh)
Materials for Extreme Environments: Multiscale Experiments and Simulations
Salomon 203
- On modeling the oxidation of high-temperature alloys
Lallit Anand (MIT) - Diffusion and Stress Coupling Effect during Oxidation at High Temperature
Xue Feng (Tsinghua University) - Ultra High Temperature Indentation Studies of Si Based Ceramics at Nanoscale to Micron scale
Ming Gan (Purdue University), Vikas Tomar (Purdue) - Atomistic Investigation of the Role of Grain Boundary Structure on Hydrogen Segregation and Embrittlement in alpha Fe
Kiran Solanki (Arizona State University), Mark Tschopp (ORAU/Army Research Laboratory), Mehul Bhatia ()
Session Chairs: Sylvie Aubry (LLNL), Erik Van der Giessen (University of Groningen)
Slip Avalanches in Amorphous Metals
Barus-Holley 168
- Slip avalanches and shear localization in lattice models for amorphous plasticity
Stefano Zapperi (CNR-IENI, Milano, Italy) - Non-Linear Dynamics in the shear rate dependence of the flow stress in model amorphous Si samples
Anne TANGUY (Université Lyon 1), Claudio Fusco (université Lyon 1) - Initial stages of shear localization investigated by simulated tensile tests of metallic glass nanowires
Eric Homer (Brigham Young University), Christopher Schuh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Formation of persistent shear in model amorphous covalent system from molecular dynamics
Tristan Albaret (Université Lyon 1, France), Anne TANGUY (Université Lyon 1)
Session Chairs: Ekhard Salje (University of Cambridge), Peter Liaw ()
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Complete Solutions to Post-Buckling Problems of Large Deformed Elastic Beam
David Gao (Univ Ballarat/ANU) - Imperfection-Insensitive Axially-Loaded Cylindrical Shells
Xin Ning (Caltech), Sergio Pellegrino (California Institute of Technology) - The Mechanics of Curly Hair
Pedro Reis (MIT), Jay Miller (MIT), Arnaud Lazarus (MIT), Basile Audoly (University Paris 6 and CNRS) - Three-dimensional Curling of Pre-strained Elastomeric Strips: From Hemi-helix to Helix
Jia Liu (Harvard University), Jiangshui Huang (), Tianxiang Su (), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), David Clarke ()
Session Chairs: ALI LIMAM (INSA Lyon), John Shaw (University of Michigan)
Multiscale Mechanics of Particulate Media
Sayles 105
- Modeling of Size-Effects in 2D Granular Flows
Ken Kamrin (MIT), Georg Koval (INSA Strasbourg) - Predicting granular flow experiments: continuum modeling with a length-scale
David Henann (Brown University), Ken Kamrin (MIT) - Self-organization and rheology of dense non-Brownian flows -- a geometric approach
Edan Lerner (New York University), Gustavo Düring (New York University), Matthieu Wyart (New York University) - The granular element method: From tomographic data to discrete computations
Keng-Wit Lim (Caltech), Jose Andrade (Caltech)
Session Chairs: Richard Reguiro (University of Colorado at Boulder), Ken Kamrin (MIT)
Plasticity at Different Length Scales
CIT 219
- Experimental Analysis of Shear Band Deformation State in Bulk Metallic Glasses
Ashraf Bastawros (), Hui Wang (), Antonia Antoniou (Georgia Institute of Technolog) - Effects of atomic scale fluctuations and notches on the plastic deformation and failure of metallic glasses
Yong-Wei Zhang (IHCP Singapore), Zhendong Sha (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore), Murali Palla (), R. Narasimhan (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ), Huajian Gao (Brown University) - Shear band mechanics in metallic plates: the Poisson’s effect and strength softening
Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xianqi Lei (), Wei-Hua Wang (), A. Greer ()
Session Chairs: Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ashraf Bastawros ()
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Tunable mechanical response of elastic media : from negative Poisson ratio to negative compressibility
Corentin Coulais (Leiden University), Martin van Hecke (Leiden University), Bastiaan Florijn (Leiden University) - Phase Diagrams of Instabilities in Compressed Film-Substrate Systems
Qiming Wang (Duke University), Xuanhe Zhao (Duke University) - Patterns from scale-free instabilities in soft solids
Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst) - 3D soft and tunable metamaterials
Sahab Babaee (Harvard university), Jongmin Shim (), Pai Wang (Harvard University), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University)
Session Chairs: Shengqiang Cai (UCSD), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University)
Symposium in honor of Rod Clifton on the occasion of his 75th Birthday
Salomon 101
- Adiabatic shear banding and scaling laws in chip formation with application to cutting of Ti-6Al-4V
Alain Molinari (University of Lorraine), Henar Miguelez (), Xavier Soldani () - Computational Mechanics Role in Solving Manufacturing Problems
Troy Marusich (Third Wave Systems) - Ignition Criterion for Heterogeneous Energetic Materials Based on Hotspot Size-Temperature Threshold
Min Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Ananda Barua (Georgia Institute of Technology), Seokpum Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yasuyuki Horie (Air Force Research Lab) - Near-Field Particle Velocity Signatures of Supershear Ruptures: Theory and Experiments
Michael Mello (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Ares Rosakis (California Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San ), Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University)
Monday 1:30 - 2:30 Salomon 101 SES 50 Anniversary Plenary Lecture
Session Chairs: Huajian Gao (Brown University)
Some mechanics studies of earth faults and ice sheets
James Rice (Harvard)
Monday 2:40 - 4:00
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Micron-scale thermoplastic forming of metallic glasses
Lallit Anand (MIT) - Experimental Investigations of Full-Field Deformation Behavior at the Microstructural Length Scale
Samantha Daly (University of Michigan) - Multiscale Characterization of Deformation and Fracture in Electrochemical Materials
Shuman Xia (Georgia Tech)
Session Chairs: Lallit Anand (MIT), Michael Mello (Georgia Institute of Technolog)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Nucleation-Controlled Distributed Plasticity In Penta-Twinned Silver Nanowires
Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University), Tobin Filleter (), Senghua Ryu (), Keonwook Kang (), Jie Yin (), Rodrigo Bernal (), Kwon Sohn (), Jiaxing Huang (), Wei Cai () - Engineering Science Aspects of the Hall-Petch Relation
Ronald Armstrong (University of Maryland) - A Gradient Plasticity Update
Elias Aifantis (Aristotle University of Thessa) - Influence of particle size and debonding damage on an elastic-plastic singular field around a crack-tip in particulate-reinforced composites
Keiichiro Tohgo (Shizuoka University) - On the macroscopic response, microstructure evolution, and macroscopic stability of short-fiber-reinforced elastomers at finite strains
Reza Avazmohammadi (), Pedro Ponte Castaneda (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Session Chairs: Qingpingng SUN (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech), Mona Zebarjadi (Rutgers University)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- Long wave motion in layered elastic media
Graham Rogerson (Keele University) - Moving-contact problems of dynamic elasticity
Michele Brun (Università di Cagliari), Leonid Slepyan (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University.) - A general isotropic remodeling law.
Ben Nadler (University of Victoria) - Analytical Mechanics of Continua with Microstructure
Francesco Dell'Isola (Università di Roma and MEMOCS )
Session Chairs: Julius Kaplunov (Keele University), Stanislav Potapenko (University of Waterloo)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Computational Mechanics of Biomembranes
Barus-Holley 160
- Numerical Algorithms for Vesicle Flows
Shravan Veerapaneni (University of Michigan) - Simulations of 3D vesicles and capsules with boundary integral method using singularity subtraction technique
Alexander Farutin (LIPhy, CNRS & UJF Grenoble), Chaouqi Misbah (LIPhy, CNRS & UJF Grenoble) - Symmetric and non-symmetric elongation of vesicles in extensional flows
Andrew Spann (Stanford), Vivek Narsimhan (Stanford University), Eric Shaqfeh (Stanford University) - Analysis of nanoprobe penetration through a lipid bilayer
Fei Liu (MIT), Dan Wu (), Roger Kamm (MIT), ken Chen (Tsinghua University)
Session Chairs: David Salac (University at Buffalo SUNY), Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech)
Electrohydrodynamics and electrokinetics of fluid systems
Barus-Holley 161
- A Hexatic-to-Disorder Transition in Colloidal Crystals near Electrodes: Stronger Flow Yields Less Order
Cari Dutcher (University of California Davis), Taylor Woehl (University of California Davis), Nicholas Talken (University of California Davis), William Ristenpart (University of California Davis) - Electrohydrodynamic interaction of spherical particles under Quincke rotation
Debasish Das (University of Illinois), David Saintillan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Deformation and stability of biomimetic membranes in DC electric pulses
Paul Salipante (Brown University), Petia Vlahovska (Brown University) - Maxwell-Wagner Polarization at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces
Zachary Gagnon (Johns Hopkins University)
Session Chairs: Aditya Khair (Carnegie Mellon University), Petia Vlahovska (Brown University)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Shock Wave Induced Damage in Tumor Cells: Experiments and Simulation
Martin Steinhauser (Fraunhofer Research Institute ), Mischa Schmidt (Fraunhofer Research Institute) - Computational modeling of plant trichome branch growth using finite element and imaging approaches
Anastasia Desyatova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical and Materials Engineering), Samuel Belteton (Purdue University, Agronomy), Makoto Yanagisawa (Purdue University, Agronomy), Tzu-Ching Wu (Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering), Daniel Szymanski (Purdue University, Agronomy), David Umulis (Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering), Joseph Turner (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical and Materials Engineering) - Sacrificial bonds and hidden length in biomaterials -- a kinetic, constitutive description of strength and toughness in bone
Charles Lieou (UC Santa Barbara), Ahmed Elbanna (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara) - Acousto-mechanical response of the human tympanic membrane measured by high-speed digital holography
Ivo Dobrev (Worcester Polytechnic Institut), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), John Rosowski (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary), Jeffrey Cheng (Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary)
Session Chairs: Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Arizona State University)
Mechanics of cell sheets, multicellular assemblies and tissues
Barus-Holley 141
- Shock Wave Induced Damage in Tumor Cells: Experiments and Simulation
Martin Steinhauser (Fraunhofer Research Institute ), Mischa Schmidt (Fraunhofer Research Institute) - Computational modeling of plant trichome branch growth using finite element and imaging approaches
Anastasia Desyatova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical and Materials Engineering), Samuel Belteton (Purdue University, Agronomy), Makoto Yanagisawa (Purdue University, Agronomy), Tzu-Ching Wu (Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering), Daniel Szymanski (Purdue University, Agronomy), David Umulis (Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering), Joseph Turner (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical and Materials Engineering) - Sacrificial bonds and hidden length in biomaterials -- a kinetic, constitutive description of strength and toughness in bone
Charles Lieou (UC Santa Barbara), Ahmed Elbanna (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara) - Acousto-mechanical response of the human tympanic membrane measured by high-speed digital holography
Ivo Dobrev (Worcester Polytechnic Institut), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), John Rosowski (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary), Jeffrey Cheng (Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary)
Session Chairs: Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Arizona State University)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
Advancement in Coating Science and Technology
RI Hall 108
- Inter-diffusion Induced Strains in Coatings
David Clarke (), Vladimir Tolpygo (Honeywell) - Finite element study of multi-modal vibration damping for multifunctional thermal barrier coating applications
Filippo Casadei (Harvard university), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), David Clarke () - Thin Film Metallic Glasses: Unique Properties and Potential Applications
Jinn Chu (Nat'l Taiwan Univ. of Sci.Tech)
Session Chairs: Eric Jordan (University of Connecticut), Filippo Casadei (Harvard university)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Multiscale modeling of molecular systems with data-driven collective variables
Behrooz Hashemian (), Daniel Millan (), Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech) - TRREAT: An algorithm to search a Potential Energy Surface along low curvature pathways. Applications to molecular conformations.
Carlos Campana (Carleton University), Ronald Miller (Carleton University) - Finding Minimum Energy Paths of Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: A Phase Field Approach
Kellen Petersen (New York University)
Session Chairs: Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 227
- Atomistic Study of Hydrogen Effects on Dislocation Mobility and Pile-ups in alpha-Fe
Jun Song (McGill University), W. A. Curtin (EPFL), Shyam Keralavarma (EPFL) - Hydrogen Effects on Dislocation Motion in BCC Iron: Hybrid Quantum and Classical Simulation
Ryo Kobayashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Tomoyuki Tamura (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Shuji Ogata (Nagoya Institute of Technology) - From atomistic to discrete dislocation dynamics modelling of bcc metals: deformation of tungsten
Daniel Weygand (KIT), Kinshuk Srivastava (KIT), Peter Gumbsch (KIT) - Continuum models for dislocation structure, energy and dynamics of dislocation arrays and low angle grain boundaries
Yang Xiang (Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Tech)
Session Chairs: Ryo Kobayashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Yang Xiang (Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Tech)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Lithiation Induced Stresses and Interfacial Phenomena in Li Ion Battery Electrodes
Brian Sheldon (Brown University), Anton Tokranov (Brown University), Ravi Kumar (Brown University), Xingcheng Xiao (General Motors), Peng Lu (General Motors), Yue Qi (General Motors R&D), Mark Verbrugge (General Motors) - Modeling of progressive delamination in a thin film electrode driven by diffusion-induced stresses
Yicheng Song (Shanghai University), JunQian Zhang (Shanghai University) - Fracture, interfacial delamination and fatigue in patterned silicon thin film electrodes subject to lithium cycling
Hamed Haftbaradaran (Brown University), Huajian Gao (Brown University), Xingcheng Xiao (General Motors) - Pressure-sensitive plasticity of lithiated silicon in Li-ion batteries
Kejie Zhao (MIT), Laurence Brassart ()
Session Chairs: Hamed Haftbaradaran (Brown University), Kejie Zhao (MIT)
Materials for Extreme Environments: Multiscale Experiments and Simulations
Salomon 203
- Role of Pressure and Strain Rate in Structural Amorphization in Boron Carbide
Ghatu Subhash (University of Florida), Dipankar Ghosh (California Institute of Technology) - Atomistic Studies of Crack Growth Mechanisms in Silicon Carbide
Kelvin Leung (Cornell Univeristy), Zhi liang Pan (), Derek Warner (Cornell University) - Exploring Deformation and Failure in Nano-Solids: Flaw-Driven Fracture in Nanocrystalline Pt and Grain boundary Sliding in Bi-crystalline Al
Julia Greer (Caltech), X Gu (Caltech), Zachary Aitken (Caltech), Yong-Wei Zhang (IHCP Singapore), Zhaoxuan Wu (IHCP Singapore) - Effects of stress state on the deformation and damage mechanisms of Mg alloys
Babak Kondori (Texas A&M University), A. Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University)
Session Chairs: Kiran Solanki (Arizona State University), Xue Feng (Tsinghua University)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Characterization and Imaging of Structural and Material Imperfections
Barus-Holley 191
- Multimodality analysis of vibrations in a biomechanical model of vocal folds
Babak Aghazadeh (Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary), Ivo Dobrev (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Ramon Franco (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) - Experimental full-field response identification with limited set of operational data
Maria Chierichetti (Worcester Polytechnique Institute) - Experimental verification of the topological sensitivity approach to elastic-wave imaging
Roman Tokmashev (University of Minnesota), Antonin Tixier (Ecole Polytechnique), Bojan Guzina (University of Minnesota) - Non-destructive testing (NDT) by laser shearography and fringe projection
Xiaoran Chen (Worcester Polytechnic Ins.), Morteza Khaleghi (WPI), Ivo Dobrev (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Session Chairs: Maria Chierichetti (Worcester Polytechnique Institute), Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota)
Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
CIT 227
- Atomistic Study of Hydrogen Effects on Dislocation Mobility and Pile-ups in alpha-Fe
Jun Song (McGill University), W. A. Curtin (EPFL), Shyam Keralavarma (EPFL) - Hydrogen Effects on Dislocation Motion in BCC Iron: Hybrid Quantum and Classical Simulation
Ryo Kobayashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Tomoyuki Tamura (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Shuji Ogata (Nagoya Institute of Technology) - From atomistic to discrete dislocation dynamics modelling of bcc metals: deformation of tungsten
Daniel Weygand (KIT), Kinshuk Srivastava (KIT), Peter Gumbsch (KIT) - Continuum models for dislocation structure, energy and dynamics of dislocation arrays and low angle grain boundaries
Yang Xiang (Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Tech)
Session Chairs: Steffen Brinckmann (Max-Planck Institut Düsseldorf)
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Electrically Tunable Composites by Making Positive Use of Instabilities
Charles Wojnar (Caltech), Dennis Kochmann (Califonia Institute of Techn.) - Shock Propagation in Aluminum Open-Cell Foam Under Impact
Andrew Barnes (), Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar (Univeristy of Texas at Austin), Stelios Kyriakides (University of Texas at Austin) - Modeling of Shock Propagation in Aluminum Foam Under Impact
Stavros Gaitanaros (Univeristy of Texas at Austin), Stelios Kyriakides (University of Texas at Austin) - Uniaxial Tensile instabilities of a Class of Compressible Solids with Plastic Non-Normality.
Nisha Mohan (Caltech), Julia Greer (Caltech), Alan Needleman (University of North Texas), Justine Cheng (Polytechnic School)
Session Chairs: K Ravi-Chandar (University of Texas at Austin), Sung Kang (Harvard University)
Multiscale Mechanics of Particulate Media
Sayles 105
- Investigating micro-mechanical origin of liquefaction
Utkarsh Mital (Caltech), Jose Andrade (Caltech), Sergio Torres () - A resistive force model for complex intrusion in granular media
Tingnan Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Chen Li (University of Berkeley), Daniel Goldman (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Microscopic origin of macroscopic strength in granular media: Friction
Alex Jerves (California Institute of Techno), Jose Andrade (Caltech), Sergio Torres ()
Session Chairs: Dr. Shivakumar Ranganathan (American University of Sharjah), Robert Behringer ()
Plasticity at Different Length Scales
CIT 219
- Atomistic Simulation of nano-porous Fe
Martin Hummel (IMWF), Peter Binkele (IMWF, Stuttgart), Siegfried Schmauder (IMWF, Stuttgart) - A Three Dimensional Model for Nanocrystalline Materials based on Grain Interior and Grain Boundary Deformation Mechanisms
Ercan Gurses (METU) - An Energy Landscape Approach to Investigating Strain-Rate and Temperature-Dependence of Plastic Deformation Mechanisms in Amorphous Solids
Harold S. Park (Boston University), Xi Lin (), Penghui Cao ()
Session Chairs: Harold S. Park (Boston University), Ercan Gurses (METU)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Tunable hierarchical nano-micro-structures by harnessing localized instabilities
Changyong Cao (Duke University), Xuanhe Zhao (Duke University), Qinghua Qin (Australian National University) - How does Gauss’ theorem ``materialize’’: Scarring, blistering, wrinkling and crumpling of adhesive films on curved topographies
Benny Davidovitch (UMass Amherst) - Soft Periodic Structures with multiple folding mechanisms
Sicong Shan (Harvard University), Sung Kang (Harvard University), James Weaver (Harvard University), elizabeth Chen (Harvard University), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), Cangyu Qu (Tsinghua Unversity) - Rigidity and Stability of Spherical Shells
Sina Youssefian (Worcester Polytechnic Institu ), Nima Rahbar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Eduardo Torres-Jara ()
Session Chairs: Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston), Xue Feng (Tsinghua University)
Symposium in honor of Rod Clifton on the occasion of his 75th Birthday
Salomon 101
- Deformation and Fracture in Nanotwinned Materials
Huajian Gao (Brown University) - Investigating MWCNT-graphene interactions via in situ SEM peeling
Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University), Michael Roenbeck (), Xiaoding Wei (), Allison Beese (), Alona Furmanchuk (), Jeffrey Paci (), George Schatz () - Thermal Transport in 3D CNT-graphene and CNT-CNT Networks
Vikas Prakash (Case Western Reserve Univ), Jungkyu Park (Case Western ) - Effective yield criterion accounting for microvoid coalescence in a porous solid
A. Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University), Jean-Baptiste Leblond (University Pierre et Marie Curie)
Session Chairs: Min Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Wei Tong (Southern Methodist University)
Monday 4:20 - 5:40
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Orientation and misorientation statistics on experimental data from thousand-grain microstructures
Laurence Bodelot (Ecole Polytechnique), G. Ravichandran (Caltech) - Diffraction Interferometer for Mapping the Surface Deformation of Fine-pitch Grating Structures
Michael Mello (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Bongtae Han (University of Maryland), Zhaoyang Wang (The Catholic University of America) - Extended digital image correlation for full-field deformation measurements: comparison of local and global approaches
Wei Tong (Southern Methodist University) - The Role of Surface Roughness on Adhesion and Friction of Soft Materials
Pradeep Guduru (Brown University)
Session Chairs: Amos Gilat (Ohio State University), Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State Universit)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Nanomechanics of Nanocomposites
Catherine Brinson (Northwestern University) - Dynamic mechanical analysis of magnetorheological nanocomposites filled with carbon nanotubes
Rui Li (UCI), Lizhi Sun (UC Irvine) - Numerical investigation of fracture behavior of nanostructured metals with bimodal grain size distribution
Xiang Guo (Tianjin University), Xunyang Dai (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China), Linli Zhu (Zhejiang University), Jian Lu (City University of Hong Kong) - Coaxial Tungsten-Oxide/Aluminum Thermite Nanocomposite
Stephen Tse (Rutgers University), Zhizhong Dong (Rutgers University), Bernard Kear (Rutgers University), Jafar Al-Sharab (Rutgers University) - Transversely Isotropic Composites with Statistically Oriented Inclusions
Salvatore Federico (The University of Calgary), Alfio Grillo (Polytechnic of Torino), Walter Herzog (The University of Calgary)
Session Chairs: Ronald Armstrong (University of Maryland), Stephen Tse (Rutgers University)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- MODE-III CRACK-TIP STRESS FIELDS IN GRADIENT ELASTICITY INCORPORATING SURFACE EFFECT
Alireza Ostadhossein (Pennsylvania State University) - Stress Intensity Factor for an Embedded Elliptical Crack under Arbitrary Normal Loading
Stanislav Potapenko (University of Waterloo), Elena Atroshchenko (Universidad de Chile) - On the long-wave explicit model for the surface wave on a coated half-space
Julius Kaplunov (Keele University), Danila Prikazchikov (Keele University, UK) - Planck's law of thermal radiation in the presense of a steady heat flux
Bair Budaev (UC, Berkeley), David Bogy (UC Berkeley) - Pure Complementary Energy Principle and Analytical Solutions to General 3-D Nonlinear Elasticity
David Gao (Univ Ballarat/ANU)
Session Chairs: Graham Rogerson (Keele University), Ben Nadler (University of Victoria)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Electrohydrodynamics and electrokinetics of fluid systems
Barus-Holley 161
- Unsteady electrohydrodynamic drop deformation
Javier Lanauze (Carnegie Mellon University), Lynn Walker (Carnegie Mellon University), Aditya Khair (Carnegie Mellon University) - Effects of drop-fluid interface and hydrodynamic interactions on Quincke rotation
Malika Ouriemi (Brown university), Petia Vlahovska (Brown University) - Electro-deformation of a surfactant-laden viscous drop
Yuan-Nan Young (New Jersey Inst. Tech.), Herve Nganguia (NJIT), Petia Vlahovska (Brown University), Hao Lin (Rutgers University) - An electrokinetically driven Janus micromotor: stability and rotation
G Yossifon (Technion), A Boymelgreen (Technion), T Miloh (Tel Aviv University)
Session Chairs: Petia Vlahovska (Brown University), Aditya Khair (Carnegie Mellon University)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Experimental Nanobiomechanics
Barus-Holley 163
- Development of holographic methods to characterize form and function of the Tympanic Membrane
Morteza Khaleghi (WPI), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Jeffrey Cheng (Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary), John Rosowski (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) - Crack propagation in bone at the scale of mineralized collagen fibrils: Implications for bone toughness
Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC)), wenyi Wang (), Charles Lieou (UC Santa Barbara), Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara) - Electrostatic Actuation based Modulation of Binding Interaction between Protein and DNA Aptamer via Dynamic Force Spectroscopy
Xiao Ma (Iowa State University), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University)
Session Chairs: Hadi Tavakoli Nia (MIT), Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC))
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Hierarchical Multiscale Simulation for Enhancing Adhesion of Bone Cells to Metallic Implants
ross Stewart (Alfred University), Jinghong Fan (Alfred University) - A Computational Model for the Geometric and Mechanical Characterization of Electrospun Scaffolds
James Carleton (University of Texas at Austin), Antonio D'Amore (University of Pittsburgh), Gregory Rodin (ICES,UT Austin), Michael Sacks (University of Texas) - The transient viscoelastic measurement of TMV superlattice with a novel AFM-based method
Haoran Wang (North Dakota State University), Xinnan Wang (NDSU) - “Lock and key mechanism” for ligand binding with adrenergic receptors and the arising mechanical effects on the cell membrane
Luca Deseri (Carnegie Mellon University), Laura Lunghi ()
Session Chairs: Martin Steinhauser (Fraunhofer Research Institute ), Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity)
Mechanics of cell sheets, multicellular assemblies and tissues
Barus-Holley 141
- Hierarchical Multiscale Simulation for Enhancing Adhesion of Bone Cells to Metallic Implants
ross Stewart (Alfred University), Jinghong Fan (Alfred University) - A Computational Model for the Geometric and Mechanical Characterization of Electrospun Scaffolds
James Carleton (University of Texas at Austin), Antonio D'Amore (University of Pittsburgh), Gregory Rodin (ICES,UT Austin), Michael Sacks (University of Texas) - The transient viscoelastic measurement of TMV superlattice with a novel AFM-based method
Haoran Wang (North Dakota State University), Xinnan Wang (NDSU) - “Lock and key mechanism” for ligand binding with adrenergic receptors and the arising mechanical effects on the cell membrane
Luca Deseri (Carnegie Mellon University), Laura Lunghi ()
Session Chairs: Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity), Martin Steinhauser (Fraunhofer Research Institute )
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
Advancement in Coating Science and Technology
RI Hall 108
- Metal nanoparticles influence on nanocomposite optical properties
Jovita Pudlauskait (KTU), Virginija Jankauskait (Kaunas University of technology), Igoris Prosycevas (Kaunas University of Technology), Pranas Narmontas (Kaunas University of Technology) - Synergetic effect of microporous coating and nanofinishing on the properties of barrier textile
Paule Bekampiene (Textile Institute), Audrone Sankauskaite (Textile Institute), Danute Tumeniene (Textile Institute, Lithuania)
Session Chairs: Filippo Casadei (Harvard university), Eric Jordan (University of Connecticut)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Time-averaging of ODE systems with highly oscillatory response
Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University) - Effective dynamics for slow (and not so slow) reaction coordinates
Frederic Legoll (ENPC) - Multiple Length/Time Scale Modeling of Multi-physics
Jiaoyan Li (The George Washington University), James Lee (George Washington University) - Autonomous Damage Recovery of Austenite Steels by Probabilistic Multiscale Mechanokinetic Modeling
Eduard Karpov (University of Illinois-Chicago), Mansoore Ariyan (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Session Chairs: Frederic Legoll (ENPC), Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 227
- Kinetics of a Fast Moving Twin Boundary
K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University), Neha Dixit (Johns Hopkins University), Nitin Daphalapurkar (Johns Hopkins University) - Multi-scale Dynamics of Twinning in Ferroic Materials
Doron Shilo (Technion - IIT), Eilon Faran (Technion - IIT) - Elucidating the Kinetics of Twin Boundaries from Thermal Fluctuations
Dengke Chen (University of Houston), YASHASHREE KULKARNI (UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON) - A New Framework for the Interpretation of Modulated Martensites in Shape Memory Alloys
Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota), Vincent Jusuf (University of Minnesota)
Session Chairs: Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota), YASHASHREE KULKARNI (UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Experimental Observations and Measurements of Stress and Damage Evolution During Initial Lithiation and Delithiation of Crystalline Silicon
Michael Chon (Brown University), Vijay Sethuraman (Brown University), Pradeep Guduru (Brown University), Allan Bower (Brown University) - Interface-Reaction Controlled Diffusion in Binary Solids with Applications to Lithiation of Silicon in Lithium Ion Batteries
Jianmin Qu (Northwestern University), Zhiwei Cui (), Feng Gao () - Kinetics of Initial Lithiation of Crystalline Silicon Electrodes of Lithium-ion Batteries
Matt Pharr (Harvard University), Zhigang Suo (Harvard University), Kejie Zhao (MIT), Joost Vlassak (Harvard University) - Microscopic model for Fracture of Crystalline Si-NWs for Lithium Ion Batteries
Ill Ryu (Stanford University), Seok Woo Lee (Stanford University), Yi Cui (Stanford University), William Nix (Stanford University)
Session Chairs: Jianmin Qu (Northwestern University), Ill Ryu (Stanford University)
Materials for Extreme Environments: Multiscale Experiments and Simulations
Salomon 203
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Metallic Nanoglasses
Sara Adibi Sedeh (NUS), Paulo BRANICIO (IHPC), Shailendra Joshi (National University of Singapore) - Curvature Interferometry based In-Situ Measurement of Stresses Associated with Electrochemical Reactions
Omer Ozgur Capraz (Iowas State University), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University), Kurt Hebert (Iowa State University) - Mechanical and temperature effects on the performance of anodes in electrochemical batteries
Sergei Manzhos (National Uni. of Singapore), Oleksandr Malyi (National University of Singapore), Yang Wei, Koh (Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR) - Constitutive modeling of ceramic matrix composites
Varun Rajan (University of California at Sa), Frank Zok () - Atomistic modeling of plane shock loading in high strength ceramics
Paulo BRANICIO (IHPC)
Session Chairs: Ghatu Subhash (University of Florida), Julia Greer (Caltech)
Slip Avalanches in Amorphous Metals
Barus-Holley 165
- Failure mechanism in porous materials under compression: crackling noise in mesoporous Goethits, Corundum and SiO2
Ekhard Salje (University of Cambridge) - Controlling avalanche criticality in 2D nano arrays
Yaalat-Chen Zohar (Hebrew University), Yossi Paltiel (HEBREW UNIVERSITY), Shira Yochelis (HEBREW UNIVERSITY), Grzegorz jung (Ben-Gurion University), Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois)
Session Chairs: Eric Homer (Brigham Young University), Stefano Zapperi (CNR-IENI, Milano, Italy)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Characterization and Imaging of Structural and Material Imperfections
Barus-Holley 191
- Qualitative identification of the interfacial condition in cracks via the method of topological sensitivity
Fatemeh Pourahmadian (University of Minneosta), Bojan Guzina (University of Minnesota) - Automated Defect Localization Via Low Rank Plus Outlier Modeling of Propagating Wavefields
Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota), Jarvis Haupt (University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Improved optical strain mapping, with detection of strain localization
John Boyle (), Maiko Kume (), Victor Birman (), Robert Pless (), Stavros Thomopoulos (), Guy Genin (Washington University) - MRI Tumor Segmentation applying Different Wavelet Transform Features, Sparse Representation-Based Classifier and Snake Algorithm
Nooshin Nabizadeh (University of Miami) - Weak formulation of the Green's function for elastic wave propagation with mixed boundary problems
Terumi Touhei (Tokyo University of Science), Kojiro Masada (Tokyo University of Science)
Session Chairs: Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota), Nooshin Nabizadeh (University of Miami)
Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
Barus-Holley 157
- Combining 3D Discrete Dislocation Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics into a Concurrent Multiscale Model
Steffen Brinckmann (Max-Planck Institut Düsseldorf) - The Genome of Size-Dependent Plasticity in Metals
Jaafar El-Awady (Johns Hopkins University) - Statistics of Dislocation Slip Avalanches in Nanosized Single Crystals Show Tuned Critical Behavior Predicted by a Simple Mean Field Model
Nir Friedman (), Andrew Jennings (), Georgios Tsekenis (), Ju-Young Kim (), Molei Tao (), Jonathan Uhl (), Julia Greer (Caltech), Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois) - On the role of dissipative hardening in predicting indentation size effects
Prabhat Agnihotri (University of Groningen), Eduardo Bittencourt (), Erik Van der Giessen (University of Groningen)
Session Chairs: Pilar Ariza (University of Seville)
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Extracting Materials Properties from Crackling Noise and Slip-Avalanche Statistics of Slowly-Sheared Materials
Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois), Xie Xie (University of Tennessee), James Antonaglia (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Marina Laktionova (), Elena Tabachnikova (), Zhi Tang (), Junwei Qiao (), Jien-Wei Yeh (), Che Wei Tzai (), Yong Zhang (), Jonathan Uhl (), Peter Liaw () - Extraction of Material Properties from 3-D Deformation Measurements
Andrew Gross (University of Texas, Austin), K Ravi-Chandar (University of Texas at Austin) - Combined Constrained Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling of Single Crystal Niobium
Aboozar Mapar (Michigan State University), Farhang Pourboghrat (Michigan State University), Thomas Bieler (Michigan State University), Christopher Compton (National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab) - Application of Modified Mohr-Coulomb Necking Locus with Forming Severity Concept to Predict Metal Sheets Necking under Nonlinear Strain Path
Yuanli Bai (University of Central Florida), Tomasz Wierzbicki (MIT)
Session Chairs: Stelios Kyriakides (University of Texas at Austin), Akanksha Garg (CMU)
Multiscale Mechanics of Particulate Media
Sayles 105
- Invariants of Mesoscale Thermal Conductivity and Resistivity Tensors in Planar Random Checkerboards
Dr. Shivakumar Ranganathan (American University of Sharjah), Ahmed Dalaq (American University of Sharjah) - Effects of Pore Pressures on the Brittle-Ductile Transition in Porous Geomaterials: Laboratory Constraints on the Strength of Seismogenic Faults
Taka Kanaya (Brown University), Greg Hirth (Brown University) - A model of sheared gouge layer with thermally varying material properties
Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC)), Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara)
Session Chairs: Ken Kamrin (MIT), David Henann (Brown University)
Plasticity at Different Length Scales
CIT 219
- Thermo - Mechanical Responses of Metals in Small Scale on the Fast Transient Process
Danial Faghihi (ICES - UT Austin), George Voyiadjis (Louisiana State University) - An Internal State Variable Model of Micropolar Elasto-Vicoplasticity
DOUGLAS BAMMANN (MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY) - Autowave Model of the Transition from Stable Plastic Flow to Ductile Failure in Solids
Lev Zuev (Institute of Strength Physics )
Session Chairs: A.K. Soh (The University of Hong Kong), DOUGLAS BAMMANN (MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Buckling of Dielectric Elastomeric Plates for Soft, Microfluidic Pumps
Behrouz Tavakol (Virginia Tech), Michael Bozlar (Princeton University), Guillaume Froehlicher (Princeton University), Howard Stone (Princeton University), Ilhan Aksay (Princeton University), Douglas Holmes (Virginia Tech) - Electrically-Powered Soft Matter Composites with Tunable Elastic Rigidity
Carmel Majidi (Carnegie Mellon University), Wanliang Shan (Carnegie Mellon University), Tong Lu (Carnegie Mellon University) - Electromechanical response of polymer networks with long-chain molecules
Gal DeBotton (Ben-Gurion Univ.), Noy Cohen (Ben-Gurion Univ.) - Mechanics and Electrostatics on Supercoiled DNA
David Argudo (University of Pennsylvania), Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania)
Session Chairs: Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin), Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania)
Symposium in honor of Rod Clifton on the occasion of his 75th Birthday
Salomon 101
- Extension of the Torsional Wave Experiment (TWE) to enable the Measurement of the Viscoelastic Properties of Biological Tissues
Tong Jiao (Brown University), Sean Teller (Intel Corporation), Rodney Clifton (School of Engineering, Brown University) - The Consequences of Impact on Asteroids
K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University) - Shock Waves in Heterogeneous Particulate Composites
Michael Rauls (Caltech), G. Ravichandran (Caltech)
Session Chairs: Vikas Prakash (Case Western Reserve Univ), Troy Marusich (Third Wave Systems)
Tuesday 8:00 - 8:50 Salomon 101 Prager Medal Lecture
Session Chairs: Dimitris Lagoudas (Texas A&M - Aerospace Eng.)
Micromechanics and Some Aspects of Phase Fields in Ferroelectric Crystals
George Weng (Rutgers University)
Tuesday 9:00 - 10:30
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- The Dynamics of Brain Injury
K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University) - Role of Mean Stress in Yield Behavior of Solid Foams
Ravi Ayyagari (Illinois Institute of Technology), Murat Vural (Illinois Institute of Technolo) - THE BEHAVIOR OF AN ELASTOMER AT HIGH PRESSURES AND HIGH STRAIN RATES
Tong Jiao (Brown University), Rodney Clifton (School of Engineering, Brown University)
Session Chairs: Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur (Michigan State University), Tong Jiao (Brown University)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics
Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) - Electrical and mechanical performance of graphene sheets under oxidative environments
Huiling Duan (Peking University) - Vibrational stability of graphene
Biao Wang (Sun Yat-sen University), Yulan Liu (Sun Yat-sen University) - Mechanics of Stretchable and highly sensitive graphene-on-polymer strain sensors
Quanshui Zheng (Tsinghua University), Hongwei Zhu (Tsinghua University), Wen Wang (Tsinghua University) - The overall response of solids containing non-interacting defects
Gregory Rodin (ICES,UT Austin)
Session Chairs: Dimitris Lagoudas (Texas A&M University), Lizhi Sun (UC Irvine)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- On the use of the QR or upper triangular decomposition in finite elasticity
Arun Srinivasa (Texas A&M University) - Asymptotic theories for thin-walled beams
Roberto Paroni (University of Sassari) - Preliminary modeling for adhesion of graphene and lipid layers
Luca Deseri (Carnegie Mellon University), Nicola Pugno (University of Trento), Pietro Pollaci (University of Trento) - STRAIN LIMITING THEORIES OF ELASTICITY: THEORY, APPLICATION AND OPEN PROBLEMS
Jay Walton (Texas A&M University)
Session Chairs: Christian Linder (Stanford University), Patrizio Neff (University of Duisburg-Essen)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- The Five S’s: Chemical Swimming, Sailing, Surfing, Squirming and Swarming
John Brady (Calif. Institute of Technology) - Study of Particle Motion in Closed-Streamline Flows
Hamed Haddadi (City College of New York), Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh (Rutgers University), Kevin Connington (The Levich Institute), Jeffrey Morris (Levich Institute and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, CCNY) - Rotational Behavior of Porous Elliptical Cylinders in a Simple Shear Flow
Hassan Massoud (NYU), Howard Stone (Princeton University), Michael Shelley (NYU) - Secondary convection due to second normal stress differences: A new mechanism for the mass transport of solutes in flowing, non-colloidal suspensions
Arun Ramachandran (University of Toronto)
Session Chairs: Arun Ramachandran (University of Toronto), Roseanna Zia (Cornell University)
Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
Barus-Holley 191
- Movements of tethered Marine Bacterium with a Polar Flagellum
Xiao-Lun Wu (University of Pittsburgh) - Propulsion of model monotrichous bacteria in weakly viscoelastic fluids
Alexander Morozov (University of Edinburgh) - Cell-kinematics and the swimming motility of an individual bacterium
Bin Liu (Brown University), Thomas Powers (Brown University), Kenneth Breuer (Brown University) - Turning failure into function: Marine bacteria reorient via a flagellar buckling instability
Kwangmin Son (MIT), Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), Roman Stocker (MIT)
Session Chairs: Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame), Jeffrey Guasto (MIT)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Biophysical model of the coupled mechanisms of cell adhesion, contraction and spreading
Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder) - Tuning Molecular Adhesion via Material Anisotropy
Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity) - Investigating viscoelastic effects on cell adhesion using Atomic Force Microscopy
Kuo-Kang (Isaac) Liu (University of Warwick), Eleftherios Siamantouras (), Paul Squires (), Claire Hills () - ECM ligands type and substrate stiffness regulate 3T3 Fibroblast cell traction force
Mina Shojaeizadeh (WPI), Qian Xuyu (WPI), Jared Franklin (WPI), Qi Wen (WPI)
Session Chairs: Allen Liu (University of Michigan), Christian Franck (Brown University)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Arrays of mutually interacting MD cells
Antonio DiCarlo (Universita Roma Tre), Manuela Minozzi (Universita Roma Tre), Matteo Paoluzzi ( IPCF-CNR) - Coupling Molecular dynamics to a continuum in LibMultiScale: how to address thermal and dislocation issues
Guillaume Anciaux (EPFL), Srinivasa Ramisetti (EPFL), Till Junge (EPFL), Jean-François Molinari (EPFL) - Computational challenges of coarse-grained atomistics by the quasicontinuum method
Jeffrey Amelang (Caltech), Gabriela Venturini (Caltech), Dennis Kochmann (Califonia Institute of Techn.) - A coarse-grained molecular dynamics model for unfolded proteins in nuclear pores
Ali Ghavami (University of Groningen), Erik Van der Giessen (University of Groningen), Patrick Onck (University of Groningen)
Session Chairs: Antonio DiCarlo (Universita Roma Tre), Ronald Miller (Carleton University)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Nanocomposites for Energy Storage Electrodes: High Power, High Energy, High Strength (invited)
Gleb Yushin (Georgia Institute of Technolog) - A beaded-string silicon anode for lithium ion battery
Teng Li (University of Maryland), Zheng Jia (University of Maryland) - Real time stress measurements on composite lithium-battery electrodes
Vijay Sethuraman (Brown University), Nathan Van Winkle (Brown University), Annam Nguyen (Brown University), Siva Nadimpalli (Brown University), Michael Chon (Brown University), Hailong Wang (Brown University), Daniel Abraham (Argonne National Laboratory), Allan Bower (Brown University), Vivek Shenoy (The University of Pennsylvania), Pradeep Guduru (Brown University) - Stress-modulated driving force for lithiation reaction in hollow nano-anodes
Zheng Jia (University of Maryland), Teng Li (University of Maryland)
Session Chairs: Vijay Sethuraman (Brown University), Joost Vlassak (Harvard University)
Mechanics of Phase Transforming and Multifunctional Materials
CIT 219
- Phase separation of polymeric gels - domain dilation vs. coarsening
Wei Hong (Iowa State University), Xiao Wang (Iowa State University) - Phase Field Modeling and Computer Simulation of Multiferroic Materials
Yongmei Jin (Michigan Tech), Yu Wang (Michigan Tech), Stephen Kampe (Michigan Tech), Shuxiang Dong (Peking University) - Effect of Semiconducting nature on the fracture behavior of Ferroelectric films.
BHARAT PENMECHA (California Institute of Techno), Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology) - Shape and size dependence of the phase transition temperature for ferroelectric/ferromagnetic nanoparticles
Liping Liu (Rutgers), Lixin Hu (Rutgers University)
Session Chairs: Liping Liu (Rutgers), Yongmei Jin (Michigan Tech)
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Salomon 202
- Mechanics of graphene bubbles
Peng Wang (), Wei Gao (), Zhiyi Cao (), Kenneth Liechti (), Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin) - The Influence of Defect-Induced Amorphization on the Structural and Mechanical Properties of Single Layer Graphene
Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Corinne Carpenter (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dimitrios Maroudas (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Orientation-dependent binding energy of graphene on palladium
Branden Kappes (), Abbas Ebnonnasir (), Suneel Kodambaka (), Cristian Ciobanu (Colorado School of Mines) - A continuum model of polygonization in multiwalled carbon nanotubes
Dmitry Golovaty (University of Akron)
Session Chairs: Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Cristian Ciobanu (Colorado School of Mines)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Contact Mechanics
Barus-Holley 163
- A Model for Adhesive Wear Particle Volume using Extended Finite Element Modeling
Deepak Patil (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison), Melih Eriten (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Perspectives on the development of general contact for Abaqus/Standard
Harry Harkness (Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp), George Ang (Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp), Dan Cojocaru (Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp) - Finite element implementation of an eigenfunction solution for the contact pressure variation due to wear
James Barber (University of Michigan), Yong Hoon Jang (Yonsei University, Korea), Yuwei Liu (Beijing Institute of Technology) - Improving estimates of wear rates in grid-to-rod fretting (GTRF) through microscale simulations
Areg Hayrapetian (MIT), Michael Demkowicz (MIT)
Session Chairs: Mircea Teodorescu (UC Santa Cruz), Bart Raeymaekers (University of Utah)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Sayles Auditorium
- Three dimensional fracture growth as a standard dissipative system: some general theorems and preliminary numerical analysis.
Alberto Salvadori (University of Brescia / TUe), Francesca Fantoni (University of Brescia, Italy) - A Variational Approach to Hydraulic Fracturing
Blaise Bourdin (Lsu), Chukwudi Chukwudozie (LSU) - 3-D Simulation of Arbitrary Crack Growth Using a New Energy-Based Formulation
Brett Davis (Cornell University), Paul Wawrzynek (), Anthony Ingraffea (Cornell University) - Three dimensional finite element simulations of ductile to brittle failure mode transition in glassy amorphous polymers
Brunda Kattekola (IIT Kanpur), Sumit Basu (Indian Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Gregory Rodin (ICES,UT Austin), John Dempsey (Clarkson University)
Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
RI Hall 108
- A Coupled Framework For Climb-Assisted Glide In Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge University), Can Ayas (Cambridge University), Hans van Dommelen (Technical University of Eindhoven) - The Dislocation Network Evolution under Irradiation Conditions in Dislocation Dynamics Simulations
Dan Mordehai (Technion), Emmanuel Clouet (CEA), Laurent Dupuy (CEA) - Climb Enabled Discrete Dislocation Plasticity of Particle Reinforced Composites
Can Ayas (Cambridge University), Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge University)
Session Chairs: Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University)
Engineering Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
Sayles 105
- REALITIES AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES FACING THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Francois Auzerais (Schlumberger) - Rapid microscale chemo-mechanical characterization of microstructural diversity in oil/gas shales
Nicola Ferralis (MIT) - Chemistry of interfaces between inorganic minerals and porous carbons: Implications for the mechanical properties of gas shale
Gyorgy Hantal (MIT), Laurent Brochard (MIT/ENPC), Roland Pellenq (CNRS/MIT), Franz-Joseph Ulm (MIT), Benoit Coasne (CNRS-MIT)
Session Chairs: Pedro Reis (MIT), Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger)
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Post-bifurcation analysis of a regular honeycomb structure under bi-axial loading
Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota), Pierre Henry (Ecole Polytechnique, France) - Effects of geometrical imperfection on swelling induced buckling patterns of gel film with square lattice of holes
Dai Okumura (Nagoya University), Tsuyoshi Kuwayama (Nagoya University), Nobutada Ohno (Nagoya University) - Formation of complex ordered patterns by harnessing mechanical instability in geometrically frustrated lattices
Sung Kang (Harvard University), Sicong Shan (Harvard University), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Torsional Buckling Instability in Hollow Nanolattices
Lucas Meza (Caltech), Julia Greer (Caltech)
Session Chairs: Dai Okumura (Nagoya University), Yoshitaka Umeno (The University of Tokyo)
Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Salomon 101
- Flaw distributions, subscale crack interactions, and dynamic failure of ceramics
Andrew Tonge (The Johns Hopkins University), K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University) - Experimental and numerical study of dynamic fracture in polycarbonate
Anshul Faye (IIT Kanpur), Venkitanarayanan Parameswaran (IIT Kanpur), Sumit Basu (Indian Institute of Technology) - Towards a microstructurally informed model for dynamic ductile failure
Justin Wilkerson (Johns Hopkins University), K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University) - Microscopic modeling of ignition and burning for well-arranged energetic crystals in response to drop-weight impact
Yanqing Wu (Beijing institute of Technolog)
Session Chairs: Venkitanarayanan Parameswaran (IIT Kanpur), xu Nie (University of North Texas)
Materials Design and Biomimetic Material Concepts
CIT 227
- Biomimetic cilia and flagella for lab-on-chip devices
Syed Khaderi (University of Cambridge), Sandeep Namdeo (), Jaap Den Toonder (Philips/TU-Eindhoven), Patrick Onck (University of Groningen) - Toughening of dissimilar interfaces with patterned morphology
Fernando Cordisco (Purdue), Pablo Zavattieri (Purdue), Louis J. Hector, Jr. (General Motors R&D), Allan Bower (Brown University) - Toughening mechanisms in multilayered materials
Sina Askarinejad (Worcester Polytechnic(WPI)), Nima Rahbar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) - Mechanics of pharyngeal teeth of black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) crushing mollusk shells
Haimin Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ)
Session Chairs: Haimin Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ), Vikas Tomar (Purdue)
Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures
Salomon 203
- Molecular Tailoring of Thin Film Adhesion
Nancy Sottos (Dept. of Materials Science and Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Martha Grady (), Philippe Geubelle () - Transduction of molecular binding associated conformational changes to mechanical defromation
Yue Zhao (Iowa State University), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University) - Adhesion Map for Thin Films
Guangxu Li (Texas Instruments), Kai-Tak Wan (Northeastern University) - BLISTER ADHESION MEASUREMENTS OF LARGE AREA GRAPHENE
Kenneth Liechti (), Zhiyi Cao (), Peng Wang (UT Austin), Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin)
Session Chairs: Nancy Sottos (Dept. of Materials Science and Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Junlan Wang (University of Washington)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Determining a Failure Strain Envelope for Neurons in Uniaxial Compression
Jonathan Estrada (Brown University), Eyal Bar-Kochba (Brown University), Christian Franck (Brown University) - Flexoelectricity in Soft and Biological Materials
Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston), Liping Liu (Rutgers), Qian Deng (University of Houston) - Mechanics of the Venus flytrap's fast motion and Bio-mimetic flytrap-robots
Zi Chen (Washington University), Qiaohang Guo (), Huang Zheng (), Stephen Xie (), Wei Li (), Guiping Su (), Junjie Lin (), Yuxin Liu (), Yiting Ding (), Wenzhe Chen (), Larry Taber ()
Session Chairs: Christian Franck (Brown University), Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin)
Tuesday 10:45 - 12:15
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Liquid crystal elastomers
Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology) - Dynamic Punch Test
Amos Gilat (Ohio State University), Jeremy Seidt (Ohio State University) - Damage Tolerance in Biomimetic Composites
Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur (Michigan State University), Abhishek Dutta ()
Session Chairs: Christian Franck (Brown University), Vikas Prakash (Case Western Reserve Univ)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Modeling of flexoelectric effects in ferroelectric epitaxial thin films
A.K. Soh (Monash University), H.T. Chen (The University of Hong Kong) - Cryogenic Fracture of Cracked Piezoelectric Ceramics in Three-Point Bending under Electric Fields
Yasuhide Shindo (Tohoku University), Fumio Narita (Tohoku University) - An internal variable based model for the electric breakdown and piezoelectricity of ferroelectrets
Baixiang Xu (TU Darmst), Dietmar Gross (Division of Solid Mechancis, TU Darmstadt) - Effect of Aged Binder on Piezoelectric Properties of Cement-Based Piezoelectric Composites
Huang Hsing Pan (Kaohsiung U. of App. Sciences) - Loading frequency-dependent hysteresis behaviors of ferroelectric polycrystals: a phase-field study
Ning Liu (), Yu Su (Beijing Institute of Tech)
Session Chairs: Huanyu CHENG (Northwestern University), CHUNYU LI (Purdue University)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- Reflection and transmission of plane waves at surfaces carrying material properties and embedded in second-gradient materials
Angela Madeo (INSA-Lyon) - Computational Homogenization of Random Network Microstructures in Soft Matter Materials
Christian Linder (Stanford University) - Mass-related order parameters
Antonio DiCarlo (Universita Roma Tre) - The Hencky strain energy measures the geodesic distance of the deformation gradient F GL+(3) to SO(3) in the canonical left-invariant Riemannian metric on GL+(3).
Patrizio Neff (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Session Chairs: Roberto Paroni (University of Sassari), Jay Walton (Texas A&M University)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- Direct measurement of 3D suspension microstructure
James Gilchrist (Lehigh University), Bu Xu (Lehigh University), M.Tharanga Perera (Lehigh University) - Direct Investigation of Suspension Flow in an Ideal Micro-porous medium
M.Tharanga Perera (Lehigh University), Bu Xu (Lehigh University), James Gilchrist (Lehigh University) - Discontinuous shear thickening: fluid dynamics or granular physics?
Ryohei Seto (Levich Institute, CCNY), Romain Mari (Levich Institute / CCNY), Jeffrey Morris (Levich Institute and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, CCNY), Morton Denn (Levich Institute and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York) - Microstructure and rheology of colloidal suspension in simple shear and dynamic oscillatory flows: theory and simulation.
Ehssan Nazockdast (CUNY), Stéphanie Marenne (City College of New York), Jeffrey Morris (Levich Institute and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, CCNY)
Session Chairs: Jeffrey Morris (Levich Institute and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, CCNY), Roseanna Zia (Cornell University)
Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
Barus-Holley 191
- Trapped in Flow
Roman Stocker (MIT), Roberto Rusconi (MIT), Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), William Durham (Oxford University), Michael Barry (MIT), Eric Climent (Institute the Mechanique des Fluids de Toulouse), Guido Boffetta (Universita' di Torino), Filippo DeLillo (Universita' di Torino), Massimo Cencini (Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche, Roma, Italy) - Reverse engineering the euglenoid movement
Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Luca Heltai (), Daniel Millan (), Antonio DeSimone () - Unsteady inertial effects on small swimming organisms
Shiyan Wang (University of Notre Dame), Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame) - Gyrotactic Bioconvection at Pycnoclines
Alireza Karimi (University of Notre Dame), Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame)
Session Chairs: Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- On Cell-Nanomaterial Interactions
Huajian Gao (Brown University) - Substrate Stiffness Regulates Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles
Changjin Huang (The Pennsylvania State Univers), Peter Butler (Pennsylvania State University), Sheng Tong (Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University), Hari Muddana (The Pennsylvania State University), Gang Bao (Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University) - Mechanics of clathrin-mediated endocytosis
Nikhil Walani (University of Houston), Jennifer Torres (University of Houston), Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston) - Spatial Dynamics of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
Allen Liu (University of Michigan), Xinyu Tan (University of Michigan)
Session Chairs: Kuo-Kang (Isaac) Liu (University of Warwick), Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Crack initiation and propagation in brittle crystals at the low energy regime
Dov Sherman (Technion) - The Origin of Fracture Surface Instabilities in (111) silicon crystal
Liron Ben Bashat Bergman (Technion), Dov Sherman (Technion) - Flaw-Governed Failure in Nanocrystalline Pt Nanostructures
X Gu (Caltech), Zhaoxuan Wu (Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore), Yong-Wei Zhang (IHCP Singapore), David Srolovitz (University of Pennsylvania), Julia Greer (Caltech) - Modeling the Size-Dependent Strength of Metallic Nanoparticles at the Nanoscale
Dan Mordehai (Technion), Seok-Woo Lee (CalTech), David Srolovitz (University of Pennsylvania), William Nix (Stanford University), Eugen Rabkin ()
Session Chairs: Dan Mordehai (Technion), Dov Sherman (Technion)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Predicting the transport and mechanical properties of the solid electrolyte interphase in Li-ion batteries
Yue Qi (General Motors R&D), Siqi Shi (Brown University), Louis J. Hector, Jr. (General Motors R&D), Kevin Leung (Sandia National Lab) - A reactive molecular dynamics simulation of the Lithiated Silicon/Carbon composite anode in Lithium ion batteries
Alireza Ostadhossein (Pennsylvania State University), Adri van Duin (Pennsylvania State University) - Multi-scale and multi-physics modelling of Li-ion batteries: a computational homogenization approach.
Alberto Salvadori (University of Brescia / TUe), Davide Grazioli (University of Brescia, Italy) - Brittle to Ductile Transition for Amorphous Silicon Electrodes
Chao Chen (Harvard University), Weili Wang (Harvard University), Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard University), Zhigang Suo (Harvard University)
Session Chairs: Kejie Zhao (MIT), Joost Vlassak (Harvard University)
Mechanics of Phase Transforming and Multifunctional Materials
CIT 219
- SMALL-SCALE TRANSFORMATION BEHAVIOR IN SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS
Samantha Daly (University of Michigan) - Co-existence of phases in twisted DNA
David Argudo (University of Pennsylvania), Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania) - Mesoscale Simulation of Reversible Martensitic Transformations in Shape Memory Alloys
Ying Chen (RPI)
Session Chairs: Doron Shilo (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology), Ying Chen (RPI)
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Salomon 202
- Adhesion and Peeling Instability of an Elastic Rod
Carmel Majidi (Carnegie Mellon University), Oliver O'Reilly (UC Berkeley) - Mechanics of Self-Folding of Single-layer Graphene
Jianliang Xiao (University of Colorado Boulder), Ming Li (Dalian University of Technology), Xianhong Meng (Beihang University) - Controlling folding patterns in supported graphene by adhesion, friction and strain anisotropy
Kuan Zhang (UPC), Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech) - Buckling of a Graphene Sheet Perpendicular to a Rigid Substrate
J. Patrick Wilber (University of Akron), Dmitry Golovaty (University of Akron), Shawn Ryan ([email protected])
Session Chairs: Dmitry Golovaty (University of Akron), J. Patrick Wilber (University of Akron)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Contact Mechanics
Barus-Holley 163
- Burnishing Wear Mechanism of Thin Carbon Film during High Speed Sliding Contact
Chang-Dong Yeo (Texas Tech University), Sungae Lee () - Determination of the Limits of QuasiStatic and Dynamic
David Hills (University of Oxford), Matthew Brake (Sandia National Laboratories) - Simulation of High Speed Impact in the Cold Spray Deposition Process
Jing XIE (INSA DE LYON), Daniel NELIAS (INSA Lyon), Helene WALTER-LE-BERRE (), Kiyohiro ITO (), Yuji ICHIKAWA (), Kazuhiro OGAWA () - Statistical Model on Nearly Complete Elastic Rough Surface Contact
Yang Xu (Auburn University), Robert L. Jackson (Auburn University), Dan Marghitu (Auburn University)
Session Chairs: Melih Eriten (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Deepak Patil (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Sayles Auditorium
- The threshold for subcritical crack growth
Gregory Rodin (ICES,UT Austin) - T-stresses for short and long cracks
John Dempsey (Clarkson University) - Derivation of linear elastic from rescaled non-linear elastic quasi-static crack evolutions
Rodica Toader (University of Udine) - Gradient Fracture Mechanics
Elias Aifantis (Aristotle University of Thessa)
Session Chairs: Alberto Salvadori (University of Brescia / TUe), Sumit Basu (Indian Institute of Technology)
Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
RI Hall 108
- Influence of Forest Hardening on Fracture Toughness using a New 2.5d DD Model
W. A. Curtin (EPFL), Shyam Keralavarma (EPFL) - A Discrete Dislocation Analysis of Hydrogen-Assisted Mode I Fracture
Nilgoon Irani (Eindhoven University of Tech.), Joris J. C. Remmers (Eindhoven University of Technology), Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge University) - Thermomechanical growth of nanovoids in FCC single crystals
Pilar Ariza (University of Seville), Mauricio Ponga (Caltech), Michael Ortiz (Caltech) - Plastic response of surface asperities during contact loading
Lucia Nicola (Delft), R.-J. Dikken (TU Delft), F Sun (TU Delft)
Session Chairs: Erik Van der Giessen (University of Groningen)
Engineering Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
Sayles 105
- Stochastic Approaches for Nonlinear Drill String Dynamic Analyses
POl SPANOS (RICE UNIV>), David Rowatt (Schluemberger), Kesh Keshavan (Schluberger), Eleazar Marquez (Rice University) - Review of Research at Tulsa University Drilling Research Projects (TUDRP)
Stefan Miska (University of Tulsa), Mengjiao Yu (University of Tulsa) - Deployable Structures and Compliant Mechanisms: Enabling Down hole Zonal Isolation
Julio Guerrero (Draper Lab) - In Situ Visualization of Swell Packer Failure
Benjamin Druecke (MIT), Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger), Elizabeth Dussan V. (), Agathe Robisson (Schlumberger), Anette Hosoi (MIT)
Session Chairs: Buc Slay (Weatherford), Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger)
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Analysis of global instability mode in atomistic model
Yoshitaka Umeno (The University of Tokyo), Wolfram Noehring (), Albert Iskandarov (), Atsushi Kubo (), Erik Bitzek () - Mapping the Stochastic Response of Nanostructures
Ellad Tadmor (University of Minnesota), Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota), Subrahmanyam Pattamatta (University of Minnesota) - Elastic instabilities in single crystal thin film during nano-indentation loading
Akanksha Garg (CMU), Craig Maloney (Carnegie Mellon University) - Operation of devices based on shape transitions in bistable carbon nanotubes
Oleg Shklyaev (The Penn State Universisty)
Session Chairs: Jay Miller (MIT), Dennis Kochmann (Califonia Institute of Techn.)
Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Salomon 101
- Measuring Techniques in the Split Hopkinson Pressure-shear Bars
fangyun Lu (), Pengduo Zhao (), Chen R (NUDT China), banghai Jiang () - Effects of Particle Size and Moisture on the High-strain-rate Compressive Behavior of Eglin Sand under Confinement
Huiyang Luo (Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Dallas), William Cooper (Eglin Air Force Base, FL 32542), Hongbing Lu (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) - The Art of Cortical Bone Dynamic Fracture
Leslie Lamberson (Drexel)
Session Chairs: Leslie Lamberson (Drexel), Hongbing Lu (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
Materials Design and Biomimetic Material Concepts
CIT 227
- An Analytical Model of Reactive Diffusion for Transient Electronics
Huanyu CHENG (Northwestern University), Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) - Fabrication and Deformation of Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Ceramic Nano-Lattices
Lucas Meza (Caltech), Dongchan Jang (California Institute of Technology), Frank Greer (), Julia Greer (Caltech) - Mechanistic investigation of shear load transfer between dissimilar tablets
Rouzbeh Shahsavari (Rice University), Navid Sakhavand (Rice University) - Interfacial Biothermomechanics Of Material Interfaces in Tropocollagen Based Materials
Vikas Tomar (Purdue), Tao Qu (Purdue University)
Session Chairs: Nima Rahbar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Rouzbeh Shahsavari (Rice University)
Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures
Salomon 203
- A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics (Part I)
Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) - Wrinkling and Delamination of Thin Films on Compliant Substrates
Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin) - Buckling Sensitivity and Deformation of Lines in Integrated Circuits
Peter Woytowitz (Lam Research Corp.), Keerthi Gowdaru (Lam Research Corp.) - Stretchability of Polymer-Supported ITO Serpentine Thin Films
Shixuan Yang (University of Texas at Austin), Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin)
Session Chairs: Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin), Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Phase field model for the fracture of soft elastomers
Wei Hong (Iowa State University), Xiao Wang (Iowa State University) - Directional Delamination of Elastic Ellipsoidal Shells
Hamid Ebrahimi (Northeastern University), Amin Ajdari (Northwestern University), Arezki Boudaoud (), Dominic Vella (University of Oxford), Ashkan Vaziri () - Mechanics of Deformable Layered Materials: Experiments, Simulations and Exact Solutions
Stephan Rudykh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mary Boyce (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Benny Davidovitch (UMass Amherst), Zi Chen (Washington University)
Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30 Salomon 101 SES 50th Anniversary Plenary Lecture
Session Chairs: Kyung-Suk Kim (Brown University)
Brain Research: Past, Present and Future
Leon Cooper (Brown University)
Tuesday 2:40 - 4:00
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Experimental use of the Granular Element Method in opaque 3D grains
Jose Andrade (Caltech), Ryan Hurley (), Eloise Marteau () - FABRICATION AND DEFORMATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL BIOMIMETIC CERAMIC NANO-ARCHITECTED MATERIALS
Julia Greer (Caltech), Lucas Meza (Caltech), Dongchan Jang (California Institute of Technology) - Toughening and asymmetry in peeling of heterogeneous adhesives
Laurent Ponson (Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Shuman Xia (Georgia Tech), Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology), G. Ravichandran (Caltech) - Thermal Conductivity of high performance yarn-like Carbon-nanotube Fibers
Vikas Prakash (Case Western Reserve Univ), Eric Mayhew (CWRU)
Session Chairs: Hareesh Tippur (Auburn University), Kenji Oguni (Keio University)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Thermal transport modeling from first-principles
Keivan Esfarjani (Rutgers University) - Analyzing the mechanical response of bio-polymer networks via a combined finite element-Langevin dynamics (FEM-LD) approach
Yuan Lin (The University of Hong Kong), Wei Xi (The University of Hong Kong), Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity), K.Y. Sze (The University of Hong Kong), Vivek Shenoy (The University of Pennsylvania) - Effects of Statistics of Cell’s Size and Shape Irregularity on Mechanical Properties of 2D and 3D Voronoi Foams
Liqun Tang (South China Univ. of Tech.), Xuepeng Shi (), Lue Zhang (), Zejia Liu (), Zhenyu Jiang (), Yiping Liu () - A quantitative analysis of strengthening mechanisms and rate-dependence in a high strength aluminum alloy
K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University), Buyang Cao (), Matthew Shaeffer (Johns Hopkins University) - A super-generalized plane stress problem
Minzhong Wang (Dept. of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking Uni), Baixiang Xu (TU Darmst), Yang Gao (College of Science, China Agricultural University)
Session Chairs: Jackie Li (City University of New York), A.K. Soh (Monash University)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- Eshelby “driving” forces on interacting defects at the microscale and their homogenized effect on the macro: examples in microcrack/hole interaction and damage amplification
Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San ) - Hyperelastic fiber composites - homogenization and macroscopic stability
Gal DeBotton (Ben-Gurion Univ.), Gal Shmuel (CalTech), Stephan Rudykh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tal Oren (Ben-Gurion Univ.) - Grain-size dependent elastic properties of bulk nanocrystalline materials
Tae-Yeon Kim (McGill University), Eliot Fried (McGill University) - Plane Strain Problem in Elastically-Rigid Finite Plasticity
Anurag Gupta (IIT Kanpur)
Session Chairs: Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston), Adair Aguiar (University of São Paulo)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- Structure and flow behavior of cubic nanoparticle suspensions
Rajesh Mallavajula (Cornell University), Lynden Archer (Cornell University), Donald Koch (Cornell University) - Relaxation processes in nano-colloidal suspensions
Samanvaya Srivastava (Cornell University), Lynden Archer (Cornell University) - Synthesis and characterization of nano-fluids containing metal oxide nanoparticles
Phuoc Tran (NETL), Mehrdad Massoudi (NETL)
Session Chairs: Hassan Massoud (NYU), James Gilchrist (Lehigh University)
Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
Barus-Holley 191
- Undulatory Swimming in Complex & Heterogeneous Media
Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania) - Understanding Sperm Motility in Changing Environments
Julie Simons (Tulane University), Lisa Fauci (Tulane University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University) - Hydrodynamic Interactions of Sperm
Sarah Olson (WPI), Lisa Fauci (Tulane University) - The phylogeny of swimming kinematics: The environment controls flagellar waveforms in sperm motility
Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), Lisa Burton (MIT), Anette Hosoi (MIT), Roman Stocker (MIT)
Session Chairs: Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Thomas Powers (Brown University)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Tension induced growth in cells
Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania) - Dynamics of cell invasion in three dimensions
Jacob Notbohm (Caltech), Ayelet Lesman (), David Tirrell (), G. Ravichandran (Caltech) - 3D Neutrophil Tractions in Changing Microenvironments
Jennet Toyjanova (Brown University), Estefany Flores-Cortez (Rhode Island Hospital), Jonathan Reichner (Rhode Island Hospital), Christian Franck (Brown University) - One Cell as a Mixture: Simulations of the Micropipette Aspiration Responses of valvular interstitial cells
Yusuke Sakamoto (ICES, University of Texas at A), Michael Sacks (The University of Texas at Austin)
Session Chairs: Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst), Markus Buehler (MIT)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Multiscale quasicontinuum modelling of fibrous materials
Lars Beex (Cardiff University), Ron Peerlings (Eindhoven University of Technology), Marc Geers (Eindhoven University of Technology) - Multiresoultion Molecular Mechanics: Accuracy, Stability, and Convergence Analysis
Albert To (University of Pittsburgh), Qingcheng Yang (University of Pittsburgh), Emre Biyikli (University of Pittsburgh) - Multiscale modeling of strain rate effects in molecular systems at finite temperature
Pan Xiao (Institute of Mechanics, CAS), Yilong Bai (LNM, Institute of Mechanics, CAS) - Quantum Mechanics Based Multiscale Modeling of Materials
Gang Lu (CA State University Northridge)
Session Chairs: Albert To (University of Pittsburgh), Gang Lu (CA State University Northridge)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 227
- Strength of defective graphene – atomistic modeling and experiments
Catalin Picu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu), Ardavan Zandiatashbar (), Nikhil Koratkar (), Gwan Hyoung Lee (), James Hone () - Multiscale modeling and experimental determination of the intergranular fracture strength of transition metals in the presence of carbon
Arshad Tahir (ICAMS Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany), Rebecca Janisch (ICAMS Ruhr Universität Bochum), Alexander Hartmaier (ICAMS Ruhr Universität Bochum) - An Ab-initio Investigation of Environmental Impurities at a Crack Tip in Aluminum
Richard Zamora (Cornell University), Derek Warner (Cornell University) - A multiscale framework for coupling dislocation dynamics with vacancy diffusion theory
A. Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University), Shyam Keralavarma (EPFL)
Session Chairs: Arshad Tahir (ICAMS Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany), Catalin Picu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Effects of Coherency Strain in Phase Separating Li-ion Battery Materials
Martin Bazant (MIT), Daniel Cogswell (Samsung SAIT America), Todd Ferguson () - Chemo-mechanics of Li-ion intercalation of Silicon-based anodes
Claudio Di Leo (MIT), Lallit Anand (MIT) - Continuum modeling of plasticity, diffusion and chemical reactions in Li-ion batteries
Laurence Brassart (University of Louvain), Kejie Zhao (MIT), Zhigang Suo (Harvard University) - Anisotropic Compositional Expansion and Chemical Potential for Amorphous Lithiated Silicon under Stress Tensor
Valery Levitas (Iowa State University), Hamed Attariani (ISU)
Session Chairs: Kejie Zhao (MIT), Siva Nadimpalli (Brown University)
Mechanics of Phase Transforming and Multifunctional Materials
CIT 219
- Phase field approach to multiple twinning and variant-variant transformations in martensite
Arunabha Mohan Roy (Iowa State University), Valery Levitas (Iowa State University) - Modeling and simulation in strain-induced phase transformations in a diamond anvil cell
Biao Feng (Iowa state university), Valery Levitas (Iowa State University), Oleg Zarechnyy (Iowa state university) - Adaptive wavelet-based approach for predicting the mechanical behavior of polycrystals
Gal Shmuel (CalTech), Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology) - Phase-Field Model for Melt-Mediated Solid-Solid Phase Transformation
Kasra Momeni (Iowa State University), Valery Levitas (Iowa State University)
Session Chairs: Kaushik Dayal (Carnegie Mellon University), Gal Shmuel (CalTech)
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Salomon 202
- Quantitative In Situ Tensile Testing of Suspended Graphene
Peng Zhang (), Cheng Peng (), Phillip Loya (), Zheng Liu (), Lulu Ma (Rice University), Yongji Gong (Rice University), Jiangnan Zhang (), Pulickel Ajayan (), Jun Lou (Rice University) - Topological defects in graphene
Pilar Ariza (University of Seville), Juan Mendez (University of Seville), Michael Ortiz (Caltech) - Highly compliant and stretchable patterned graphene
Shuze Zhu (University of Maryland), Teng Li (University of Maryland) - Pseudomagnetic Field in a Graphene Drumhead under Localized Deformation
Shuze Zhu (University of Maryland), Yinjun Huang (University of Maryland), Teng Li (University of Maryland)
Session Chairs: Yong Zhu (North Carolina State University), Pilar Ariza (University of Seville)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Contact Mechanics
Barus-Holley 161
- Elastic Contact Between a Geometrically-Anisotropic Bi-Sinusoidal Surface and a Rigid Base
Amir Rostami (Auburn University), Yang Xu (Auburn University), Robert L. Jackson (Auburn University) - Full Scale Mixed Lubrication Modeling Approach
Gagan Srivastava (CMU), C. Fred Higgs (Carnegie Mellon University) - VISCOELASTIC EFFECTS IN A POLYMER MICROFIBER DUE TO SURFACE CONTACT
Nicholas Cramer (University of California Santa), Mircea Teodorescu (UC Santa Cruz) - Collective behavior of viscoelastic sliders on a rigid rough surface
Srivatsan Hulikal (Caltech), Nadia Lapusta (Caltech), Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Longqiu Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), James Barber (University of Michigan)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Sayles Auditorium
- The onset of cavitation for the equations of polyconvex elasticity
Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Crete) - On vertical root fracture from condensation of gutta-percha
Herzl Chai (Tel-Aviv University), Aviad Tamse (Tel Aviv University) - Flaw Insensitive Fracture in Nanocrystalline Graphene
Teng Zhang (Brown unversity), Xiaoyan Li (Tsinghua University), sara kadkhodaei (Brown university), Huajian Gao (Brown University)
Session Chairs: Kenneth Liechti (), Rena Yu (University of Castilla-La Manc)
Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
RI Hall 108
- A Dynamic Discrete Dislocation Plasticity Method for Simulating Extremely High Strain Rate Plasticity
Beñat Gurrutxaga Lerma (Imperial College London), Daniel Balint (Imperial College London), Daniele Dini (Imperial College London), Daniel Eakins (Imperial College London), Adrian Sutton (Imperial College London) - Advanced phase field approach to dislocation evolution
Mahdi Javanbakht (Iowa State University), Valery Levitas (Iowa State University) - New algorithms for modeling high homologous temperature plastic deformation
Run Zhu (Northeastern University), Srinath Chakravarthy (Northeastern University) - Discrete Disclination Dynamics in comparison to Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
Steffen Brinckmann (Max-Planck Institut Düsseldorf), Benjamin Reinholz (), Alexander Hartmaier (ICAMS, Ruhr-University Bochum), Peter Mullner (Boise State University)
Session Chairs: Lucia Nicola (Delft)
Engineering Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
Sayles 105
- Extended Reach of Coiled Tubing
Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger), Jahir Pabon (Schlumberger) - Buckling of a thin rod under cylindrical constraint
Jay Miller (MIT), Tianxiang Su (Harvard), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), Pedro Reis (MIT) - Analytic Solutions for Post-Buckling of Pipe Constrained by a Wellbore
Robert Mitchell (Halliburton)
Session Chairs: Dimitry Chuprakov (Schlumberger), Francois Auzerais (Schlumberger)
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Mechanical instability of a biopolymer-reinforced thin elastic rod: from short-wavelength buckling to localized failure
Wanliang Shan (Carnegie Mellon University), Zi Chen (Washington University), Cliff Brangwynne (Princeton University) - Magnetic brush: a soft structure with highly tunable stiffness
Wei Hong (Iowa State University) - Mechanical instability in bat wing skin
Alyssa Skulborstad (University of Michigan), Nakhiah Goulbourne (University of Michigan) - Mechanical Instability in Bioinspired Multistable Structures
Zi Chen (Washington University), Qiaohang Guo (), Steven Shillig (), Kevin Chu (), Chi Li (), Douglas Holmes (Virginia Tech)
Session Chairs: Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), Zheng Jia (University of Maryland)
Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Salomon 101
- Dynamic failure of curved interfaces in composite and bonded polymer materials under quasi-static loading
Demirkan Coker (METU), Denizhan Yavas (METU-Ankara), Burak Gozluklu (Turkish Aerospace Industries) - Dynamic response of Hastelloy X plates subjected to oblique shock wave loading at high temperatures
Prathmesh Naik Parrikar (University of Rhode Island), Sandeep Abotula (University of Rhode Island), Arun Shukla (University of Rhode Island) - Initiation of adiabatic shear bands from a microstructural standpoint
Shmuel Osovski (University of North Texas), Daniel Rittel (), peri Landau (), Arie Venkert () - An experimental investigation of the impact of sand slugs against monolithic and sandwich beams
Tobias Uth (University of Cambridge), Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge)
Session Chairs: Demirkan Coker (METU), Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge)
Materials Design and Biomimetic Material Concepts
Barus-Holley 158
- The Free Energy Landscape of Cellulose Nanocrystal Adhesion and Its Effect on Composite Strength
Sinan Keten (Northwestern University), Shawn Mishra () - Multiscale Modeling of Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs)
Fernando Dri (Purdue University), Pablo Zavattieri (Purdue), Louis Hector Jr. (General Motors Research and Development Center), Robert Moon (Purdue Univerity) - Coupling Molecules and Cooperative Molecular Systems
Steven Cranford (Northeastern University) - A material system with dorsal-ventral bending asymmetry
Thomas Siegmund (Purdue University), Somesh Khandelwal (Purdue), Zhwei Wu (Purdue)
Session Chairs: Vikas Tomar (Purdue), Steven Cranford (Northeastern University)
Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures
Salomon 203
- A kinetic model of stress evolution in thin films
Eric Chason (Brown University) - Identifying origins of the mechanical properties of nanoporous metals
Antonia Antoniou (Georgia Institute of Technolog) - Quantitative In-situ TEM Study of Stress Assisted Grain Growth
Sandeep Kumar (UC,Riverside), Aman Haque () - Size and Orientation Dependent Thermal Strengthening of Ti/Ni Multilayer Thin Films
Junlan Wang (University of Washington), Zhou Yang (University of Washington)
Session Chairs: Kai-Tak Wan (Northeastern University), Junlan Wang (University of Washington)
Tuesday 4:20 - 5:40
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Cohesive Zone Law Extraction from an Experimental Peel Test
Christopher Kovalchick (Becton, Dickinson and Company), G. Ravichandran (Caltech), Alain Molinari (University of Lorraine) - A new Fourier-based large deformation Digital Volume Correlation Algorithm
Eyal Bar-Kochba (Brown University), Jennet Toyjanova (Brown University), Erik Andrews (), Kyung-Suk Kim (Brown University), Christian Franck (Brown University) - Analysis of dynamic propagation of cracks based on Particle Discretization Scheme Finite Element Method (PDS-FEM)
Kenji Oguni (Keio University) - Computational Prediction of Probabilistic Ignition Behavior of PBXs from Microstructural Stochasticity
Min Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Ananda Barua (Georgia Institute of Technology), Seokpum Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yasuyuki Horie (Air Force Research Lab)
Session Chairs: Shuman Xia (Georgia Tech), Tong Jiao (Brown University)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Study on Mechanics behavior of Magnetoelectric Laminate Composites based on surface-effect Modeling and Experimental Characterization
Daining Fang (College of Engineering, Peking), Faxin Li (College of Engineering, Peking University), Feng Hao (), Hao Zhou (College of Engineering, Peking University), Jing Ma (College of Engineering, Peking University) - On Causes of Tectonic Earthquakes with External and/or Internal Loadings
Zhong-qi Quentin Yue (The University of Hong Kong) - Equivalent inclusion method based simulation of the sedimentation of many particles toward functionally graded material manufacturing
Huiming Yin (Columbia University) - Effects of elastic strain energy and interfacial stress on the equilibrium morphology of misfit particles in heterogeneous solids
Xujun Zhao (Northwestern University), Jianmin Qu (Northwestern University)
Session Chairs: Keivan Esfarjani (Rutgers University), Yuan Lin (The University of Hong Kong)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- Effects of Boundary Reinforcement on Local Singular Fields in Linearly Elastic Materials
Peter Schiavone (University of Alberta), Chun Il Kim (University of California, Berkeley), Chong-Qing Ru (University of Alberta) - NUMERICAL AND ASYMPTOTIC INVESTIGATION OF A BIFURCATION PHENOMENON IN A CLASS OF HYPERELASTIC LAMINATES
Adair Aguiar (University of São Paulo), Leslie Pérez-Fernández (Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Federal University of Pelotas, RS, Brazil), Edmar Prado (Dept. of Struct. Engnrng, São Carlos School of Engnrng, University of São Paulo) - Magnetoactive Elastomers at Finite Strains: Macroscopic Response, Microstructure Evolution and Instabilities
Pedro Ponte Castaneda (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Evan Galipeau () - Mechanics of structured plates and shells
Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Anisotropic spontaneous curvature in lipid membranes
Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston), Nikhil Walani (University of Houston)
Session Chairs: Anurag Gupta (IIT Kanpur), Tae-Yeon Kim (McGill University)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- Impact of irreversibly adsorbed surfactant layers at fluid-fluid interfaces on coalescence
Lynn Walker (Carnegie Mellon University), Matthew Reichert (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Shelley Anna (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) - Dispersal of nano-droplets in the water column by bursting bubbles in a liquid-liquid interface
Jie Feng (Princeton University), matthieu Roche (), daniele Vigolo ( Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH), Luben Arnaudov (Unilever), Simeon Stoyanov (), Howard Stone (Princeton University) - Collective dynamics of arrays of confined rigid spheres and deformable drops
kevin Shen (caltech), Michael Loewenberg (Yale university), Jerzy Blawzdziewicz (Texas Tech University), Pieter Janssen (Sabic Innovative Plastics), Eligiusz Wajnryb (polish academy of science), Patrick Anderson (Eindhoven University), Matthew Baron (Princeton University) - Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Finite-Sized Particles in Interfaces
Kevin Connington (The Levich Institute), Taehun Lee (The City College of New York, Mechanical Engineering), Jeffrey Morris (Levich Institute and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, CCNY)
Session Chairs: Kevin Connington (The Levich Institute), Lynn Walker (Carnegie Mellon University)
Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
Barus-Holley 191
- Intrinsic Viscosity of Actively Swimming Microalgae Suspensions
Michael Johnston (UIUC), Lucas Caretta (U of MN), Randy Ewoldt (UIUC) - Dynamics and propulsion modes of anchored and freely moving, frictional filament of active, polar, Brownian particles
Arvind Gopinath (Max Planck Institute ), Raghunath Chelakkot (Harvard University), Tobias Schneider (MPIDS) - Swimming microorganisms in complex fluids
Thomas Powers (Brown University) - The mechanics of motion and confinement of flagellated bacteria at air-water interface
Michael Morse (Brown University), Jay Tang (Brown University)
Session Chairs: Sarah Olson (WPI), Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Molecular mechanics of vimentin and lamin protein networks
Markus Buehler (MIT) - The effects of extreme fluctuations in a many-body Brownian ratchet
Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst), Phillip Geissler (UC Berkeley) - Tuning the entropic spring: Self-assembly and fracture mechanics of polymer conjugated peptide nanotubes
Sinan Keten (Northwestern University), Luis Ruiz () - Multiscale modeling of actin filaments and crosslinked actin networks
Tamara Bidone (MIT), TaeYoon Kim (), Marco Deriu (), Umberto Morbiducci (), Roger Kamm (MIT)
Session Chairs: Michael Sacks (The University of Texas at Austin), Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins School of Medici)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Linking electronic structure with continuum fields: Coarse-graining Density Functional Theory
Phanish Suryanarayana (Georgia Tech) - Coarse-Grained DFT
Mauricio Ponga (Caltech), Michael Ortiz (Caltech), Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology) - Spectral finite-element based methodology for large scale-electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory
Phani Motamarri (University of Michigan Ann Arb), Vikram Gavini (University of MIchigan) - A Novel Spectral Scheme for Abinitio Simulations of Objective Structures
Amartya Banerjee (University of Minnesota), Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota), Richard James (University of Minnesota)
Session Chairs: Phanish Suryanarayana (Georgia Tech), Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 227
- Peridynamics, Scaling, and Dynamic Fracture in Brittle Materials
Robert Lipton (LSU) - Deformation of Al nanowires in an oxygen environment
Fatih Sen (University of Windsor), Yue Qi (General Motors R&D), Adri van Duin (Pennsylvania State University), Ahmet Alpas (University of Windsor)
Session Chairs: Hossein Talebi (GRK, MFPA Bauhaus University), Robert Lipton (LSU)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Diffusion-induced stresses of electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries: the effects of the shell and surface stress
Daining Fang (College of Engineering, Peking), Feng Hao () - Diffusion Models for Li-ion Batteries
Elias Aifantis (Aristotle University of Thessa) - Modulation of diffusion kinetics and cyclic hysteresis of Li-alloy electrodes by deformation-diffusion coupling
Yifan Gao (Georgia Institute of Tech.), Min Zhou () - 2D Micro-Structure Resolved Model for Silicon Anode in Li-Ion Battery
Miao Wang (Michigan State University), Xinran Xiao (Michigan State University)
Session Chairs: Siva Nadimpalli (Brown University), Vijay Sethuraman (Brown University)
Mechanics of Phase Transforming and Multifunctional Materials
CIT 219
- Principles of Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy with Applications in Materials Science
David Flannigan (University of Minnesota) - Modeling the Mechanics of Triple Shape Memory Polymers
Swapnil Moon (New Jersey Institute of Technology), I.J. Rao () - Melting of aluminum nanoparticles within alumina shell at high heating rates
YONG SEOK HWANG (Iowa State University), Valery Levitas (Iowa State University)
Session Chairs: Samantha Daly (University of Michigan), Aman Haque ()
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Salomon 202
- Mechanics of rolling of graphene nanoribbon on tube and sphere
Xinghua Shi (), Qifang Yin () - Edge scattering effects on Joule heating and wind force in graphene nanoribbon
Yanbiao Chu (University at Buffalo), Cemal Basaran (University at Buffalo) - The nature of strength enhancement and weakening by pentagon–heptagon defects in graphene
Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiangtao Wu (), Hanqing Yin (), Xinghua Shi (), Ronggui Yang (), Mildred Dresselhaus ()
Session Chairs: Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jianliang Xiao (University of Colorado Boulder)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Advances in Nanocomposites for Thermal and Structural Applications
Barus-Holley 165
- Tough Composites Inspired by Mineralized Natural Materials: Computation, 3D printing and Testing
Markus Buehler (MIT), Leon Dimas (MIT) - A hierarchical multiscale modeling approach towards the estimation of the elastic properties of CNT-polymer nanocomposites with damaged CNTs
Gustavo Domínguez Rodríguez (Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Unidad de Materiales), Gary Seidel (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Jorge Tapia González (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán), Francis Avilés Cetina (Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Unidad de Materiales) - Programmable Graphene Architectures by Hydrogenation
Liuyang Zhang (), Xianqiao Wang (University of Georgia) - Nano-Scale mechanics of Hydrogels: from all-atoms to coarse-grained molecular dynamics
Nima Rahbar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Hossein Salahshoor (WPI) - Nano-scale Adhesion between Polymers and Hydroxyapatite
Sina Youssefian (Worcester Polytechnic Institu ), Jie Song (), Pingsheng Liu (), Nima Rahbar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Session Chairs: Xianqiao Wang (University of Georgia), Nima Rahbar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Contact Mechanics
Barus-Holley 161
- Contact analysis for composite materials
Daniel NELIAS (INSA Lyon), Julien Leroux () - Contact Analysis of A Photonic Crystal with Periodic Nanostructures Indented by A Rigid Sphere
Longqiu Li (Harbin Institute of Technology) - Eliminating peel stress from adhesive lap joints
Hamed Abdi (Northeastern University), Jim papadopoulos (Northeastern University), Ashkan Vaziri () - Quantifying delamination of a diamond-like-carbon coating on a magnetic recording head using molecular dynamics
Michael Price (University of Utah), Andrey Ovcharenko (Western Digital Corporation), Raj Thangaraj (Western Digital Corporation), Bart Raeymaekers (University of Utah)
Session Chairs: Hamed Ghaednia (Auburn University), David Hills (University of Oxford)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Sayles Auditorium
- CATHODIC DELAMINATION AT POLYMER/METAL INTERFACES
Kenneth Liechti (), Thomas Mauchien (UT Austin) - Mechanisms Associated With Damage Tolerance in Ti Alloys
Shmuel Osovski (University of North Texas), Ankit Srivastava (University of North Texas), Alan Needleman (University of North Texas), James Williams (University of North Texas) - Mixed-Mode I/II Crack and Electrical Resistance Behaviors of Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites
Yasuhide Shindo (Tohoku University), Tomo Takeda (), Fumitsugu Naraoka (), Yu Kuronuma (), Fumio Narita (Tohoku University)
Session Chairs: Blaise Bourdin (Lsu), Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Crete)
Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
RI Hall 108
- Taper Effects on Micropillar Compression: A Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Study
Babak Kondori (Texas A&M University), A. Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University) - Mechanical response of Al-TiN nanolayered composites: 3D discrete dislocation dynamics analysis
Caizhi Zhou (Missouri S&T) - Size Effects in Micro-Cantilever Bending
Ed Tarleton (University of Oxford), Daniel Balint (Imperial College London), Jicheng Gong (University of Oxford), Angus Wilkinson (University of Oxford) - Emergence of enhanced strengths and Bauschinger effect in conformally passivated copper nanopillars as revealed by dislocation dynamics
Seok-Woo Lee (CalTech), Andrew Jennings (California institute of Technology), Julia Greer (Caltech) - Dislocation Dynamics simulations investigating deformation heterogeneity in Zirconium
Prita Pant (IIT Bombay)
Session Chairs: Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge University)
Instability in Solids and Structures
Barus-Holley 190
- Buckling of an elastic wire inside an elastic matrix
Tianxiang Su (Harvard University), Denis Terwagne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jia Liu (Harvard University), Pedro Reis (MIT), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Bifurcation instability in substrate-supported metal layers under biaxial loading
Zheng Jia (University of Maryland), Teng Li (University of Maryland) - Effects of Transverse Shear deformation on thermo-mechanical instabilities in patched structures with edge damage
PEINAN GE (Rutgers University), William Bottega (Rutgers University) - Investigation and evaluation of buckling instability during woven structure tension
Jovita Dargiene (Kaunas University of Technolog), Paule Bekampiene (Textile Institute), Jurgita Domskiene (Kaunas University of Technology)
Session Chairs: Alyssa Skulborstad (University of Michigan), Craig Maloney (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Salomon 101
- Initial Velocities of Fragments from A Cylinder Structure
Mafa Wang (College of Science, National U), fangyun Lu (), Chen R (NUDT China), banghai Jiang () - Focusing of flexural Lamb waves through gradient index phononic crystals
Bernard Bonello (Paris University and CNRS), Jinfeng Zhao (INSP - University Paris 6), Olga Boyko (INSP - University Paris 6), Remi Marchal (INSP - University Paris 6) - Dark Breathers in Granular Crystals
Christopher Chong (UMass, Amherst) - On the signature of nonlinearity in the wave characteristics of anharmonic chains
Ganesh Ramakrishnan (University of Minnesota), Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota)
Session Chairs: Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota), Bernard Bonello (Paris University and CNRS)
Mechanics and Dynamics of Periodic Structures
Salomon 101
- Initial Velocities of Fragments from A Cylinder Structure
Mafa Wang (College of Science, National U), fangyun Lu (), Chen R (NUDT China), banghai Jiang () - Focusing of flexural Lamb waves through gradient index phononic crystals
Bernard Bonello (Paris University and CNRS), Jinfeng Zhao (INSP - University Paris 6), Olga Boyko (INSP - University Paris 6), Remi Marchal (INSP - University Paris 6) - Dark Breathers in Granular Crystals
Christopher Chong (UMass, Amherst) - On the signature of nonlinearity in the wave characteristics of anharmonic chains
Ganesh Ramakrishnan (University of Minnesota), Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota)
Session Chairs: Stefano Gonella (University of Minnesota), Bernard Bonello (Paris University and CNRS)
Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures
Salomon 203
- Epidermal differential impedance sensor for conformal skin hydration monitoring
Huanyu CHENG (Northwestern University), Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) - Unveiling the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Organic Single Crystals using the Wrinkling Instability
Marcos Reyes-Martinez (University of Massachusetts), Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Alejandro Briseno (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Alfred Crosby (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Mechanics of Graded Wrinkling
Shabnam Raayai (MIT), Mary Boyce (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Session Chairs: Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Elastoswellability: Will it bend or will it crease?
Anupam Pandey (Virginia Tech), Douglas Holmes (Virginia Tech) - Modeling of elasto-capillary phenomena
David Henann (Brown University), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Magnetorheological Elastomers in Finite Deformations: Micromechanics and Instabilities
Stephan Rudykh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Stretchable and Flexible Ferroelectrics for Non-Volatile Memory
Xue Feng (Tsinghua University), John Rogers (University of Illinoins), Jiangyu Li (University of Washinton), Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University)
Session Chairs: Stephan Rudykh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Henann (Brown University)
Wednesday 8:00 - 8:50 Salomon 101 Eringen Medal Lecture
Session Chairs: Weinong Chen (Purdue)
Mechanics of Cell-Matrix Interactions in Three Dimensions
G. Ravichandran (Caltech)
Wednesday 9:00 - 10:30
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Dynamic damage and fracture of ductile materials
Alain Molinari (University of Lorraine), Jacques Nicolas (), Sebastien Mercier () - Dynamic Failure of Composite Panels Subjected to Underwater Impulsive Loads
Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University), Xiaoding Wei () - Recent Studies on Hydrostatic and Shock Initiated Implosions Occurring within a Confining Tube
Sachin Gupta (University of Rhode Island), James LeBlanc (Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Division Newport), Newport, RI 02841), Christopher Shillings (University of Rhode Island), Arun Shukla (University of Rhode Island)
Session Chairs: Christopher Kovalchick (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Laurence Bodelot (Ecole Polytechnique)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- Ductile vs Brittle Fracture Behaviors in Metallic Glasses
Huajian Gao (Brown University) - A mathematical framework of high-order surface stresses in three-dimensional configurations
Tungyang Chen (National Cheng Kung University), Min-Sen Chiu (National Cheng Kung University) - A differential approach to microstructure-dependent energy bounds for multiphase heterogeneous media
Liping Liu (Rutgers) - Strain Gradient Elasticity-Based Method for Homogenization of Multiphase Composites
Hemei Ma (Zodiac Aerospace Corporation), Xin-Lin Gao (University of Texas at Dallas)
Session Chairs: Jianmin Qu (Northwestern University), Huiming Yin (Columbia University)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- On the geometry of continuous and singular distributions of defects
Reuven Segev (Ben-Gurion University), Marcelo Epstein (University of Calgary) - LOCALIZED BUCKLING OF A LATERALLY CONSTRAINED MICROTUBULE
Mingzhao Jin (University of Alberta), Chongqing Ru () - Spatial resolution of wrinkle patterns in thin elastic sheets at finite strains
Michael Taylor (Harvard University), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), David Steigmann (U.C. Berkeley) - The Linear Elasticity Tensor of Incompressible Materials
Salvatore Federico (The University of Calgary), Alfio Grillo (Polytechnic of Torino), Shoji Imatani (Kyoto University, Japan)
Session Chairs: Cheng Luo (The University of Texas at Arl), Kumbakonam Rajagopal (Texas A&M University)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- Lubrication by Confined Polymers
Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina), Aykut Erbas (University of North Carolina), Ekaterina Zhulina (University of North Carolina) - Low-dimensional amplitude-intrinsic material functions for nonlinear viscoelasticity
N. Ashwin Bharadwaj (UIUC), Randy Ewoldt (UIUC) - Scaling Behavior of Colloidal Gel Elasticity in the Context of Dispersant Surface Activity
Fatemeh Khalkhal (Yale University), Chinedum Osuji (Yale University) - Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Study on Block Copolymer Micelle/Nanoparticle Solutions Under Shear
Bryan Rolfe (Cornell University), Jaehun Chun (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Yong Joo (Cornell University)
Session Chairs: Roseanna Zia (Cornell University), Randy Ewoldt (UIUC)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Mechanical Characterization of Mouse Oocytes
Xinyu Liu (McGill University), Jiayi Shi (Northeastern University), Yu Sun (University of Toronto), Kai-Tak Wan (Northeastern University) - Regulation of motor force in skeletal muscle contraction
Bin Chen (Zhejiang univ.), Huajian Gao (Brown University) - On the mechanism of durotaxis in motile cells
Sylvain Gabriele (University of Mons) - A mechanobiological feedback model for the oscillations of myosin II and cell shape in epithelia
Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins School of Medici), Douglas Robinson (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
Session Chairs: Tae-Yeon Kim (McGill University), Tanmay Lele (University of Florida)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Strain Functionals for Characterizing Atomistic Geometries
Edward Kober (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - Transferability of Empirical Interatomic Potentials and the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models
Daniel Karls (University of Minnesota), Ellad Tadmor (University of Minnesota), Ryan Elliott (University of Minnesota) - Linking between Atomistic Simulation and Experiment via Virtual Diffraction Computation
Douglas Spearot (University of Arkansas), Shawn Coleman (University of Arkansas) - Parameter identification for non-Fourier heat transfer in atomistic systems
Amit Singh (University of Minnesota), Ellad Tadmor (University of Minnesota)
Session Chairs: Douglas Spearot (University of Arkansas), Edward Kober (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Mechanical Degradation in LiMn1.95Al0.05O4 Electrodes
Di Chen (), Zungsun Choi (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dominik Kramer (Helmholtz Institute Ulm), Reiner Moenig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technol) - In-situ stress evolution in LixCoO2 cathode during electrochemical cycling
Naba Karan (Brown University), Insun Yoon (Brown University), Siva Nadimpalli (Brown University), Daniel Abraham (Argonne National Laboratory), Allan Bower (Brown University), Pradeep Guduru (Brown University) - Models for lithium-ion battery performance and damage
Robert McMeeking (UCSB) - Probing local electrochemistry at the nanoscale by electrochemical strain microscopy
Jiangyu Li (University of Washington)
Session Chairs: Joost Vlassak (Harvard University), Vijay Sethuraman (Brown University)
Mechanics of Phase Transforming and Multifunctional Materials
CIT 219
- On the propagation and manipulation of waves in soft electroactive tubes
Gal Shmuel (CalTech), Gal deBotton (BGU) - Application of a bi-stable chain model for the analysis of jerky twin boundary motion in NiMnGa
Itamar Benichou (Technion - IIT), Eilon Faran (Technion - IIT), Doron Shilo (Technion - IIT), Sefi Givli (Technion - IIT) - Melting/solidification of nanoparticles: new scale effects, thermally activated surface nucleation and bi-stable states
Kamran Samani (Iowa State University), Valery Levitas (Iowa State University) - Complex ferroelastic domain patterns in free-standing nanoferroelectrics
Nathaniel Ng (Inst. of High Perf. Computing), Rajeev Ahluwalia (IHPC), David Srolovitz (University of Pennsylvania)
Session Chairs: Doron Shilo (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology), Hsin-Yi Kuo (National Chiao Tung University)
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Salomon 202
- Graphene Adhesion
J Scott Bunch (University of Colorado) - Strain-engineered artificial atom as a broad-spectrum solar energy funnel
Ju Li (MIT) - Tunable Transport Dimensionality of Electrons in Mott- and Band-insulator LaTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices
Jeong Ho You (Southern Methodist University), Jun Hee Lee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University) - Influence of phonon-phonon interactions on the Joule heating of metallic single walled carbon nanotubes
Pierre Gautreau (University at Buffalo), Yanbiao Chu (University at Buffalo), Cemal Basaran (University at Buffalo)
Session Chairs: Jeong Ho You (Southern Methodist University), Scott Bunch (University of Colorado)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Computational Materials Design via Multi-scale Modeling
Barus-Holley 190
- Making Nanomechanics Simulations Physical – Response EAM Potentials
Hanchen Huang (University of Connecticut) - Stable storage of Helium in nanoscale platelets at semicoherent interfaces
Abishek Kashinath (MIT), Michael Demkowicz (MIT) - Half-metallicity in a BiFeO3 /La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 heterostructure: A first-principles study
Jiwuer Jilili (King Abdullah University of Sc) - Understanding Li-ion batteries failure from first-principles calculations: The effect of lithiation on the Si/Cu interface in Si anodes
Maria Stournara (Brown univ), priya Johari (Brown University), Yue Qi (General Motors R&D), vivek shenoy (upenn)
Session Chairs: William Curtin (EPFL), Yue Qi (General Motors R&D)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Barus-Holley 161
- Experimental Examination of the Effect of Cavity in Shear Failure of Ductile Materials
Ali Ghahremaninezhad (University of Miami), K Ravi-Chandar (University of Texas at Austin) - Creating a failure criteria for aluminum alloys from 3D finite element modeling of void growth and coalescence
Geoffrey Bomarito (Cornell University), Derek Warner (Cornell University) - Effect of Nonproportional Loadings on Ductile Fracture: Experiments and analysis
Shamik Basu (Texas A&M University), Amine Benzerga (Texas A&M University) - Effect of Inclusion Distribution on Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness
Ankit Srivastava (University of North Texas), Shmuel Osovski (University of North Texas), Laurent Ponson (Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Viggo Tvergaard (Technical University of Denmark), Elisabeth Bouchaud (CEA-Saclay and ESPCI Paris Tech), Alan Needleman (University of North Texas)
Session Chairs: Robert Lipton (LSU)
Engineering Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
CIT 227
- Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing using the XFEM
Safdar Abbas (Schlumberger), Elizaveta Gordeliy (University of British Columbia), Brice Lecampion (Schlumberger), Anthony Peirce (University of British Columbia) - Modeling the Interaction and Growth of Multiple Non-planar Hydraulic Fractures
Stephen Castonguay (University of Texas at Austin), Mark Mear (Department ASE/EM, University of Texas at Austin), Rick Dean (ConocoPhillips), Joseph Schmidt (ConocoPhillips) - Capillary fracturing in granular media
Ruben Juanes (MIT), Michael Szulczewski (MIT), Mathias Trojer (MIT), Ran Holtzman (Hebrew University) - Improved criterion of hydraulic fracture propagation across natural discontinuities sensitive to fluid pumping
Dimitry Chuprakov (Schlumberger), Olga Melchaeva (GazPromNeft), Romain Prioul (Schlumberger)
Session Chairs: Agathe Robisson (Schlumberger), Nicola Ferralis (MIT)
Mechanics and Dynamics of Periodic Structures
Salomon 101
- Nonlinear Metamaterials: Amplitude-Dependent Dispersion, Group Velocity, Bandgaps, and Device Implications
Michael Leamy (Georgia Institute of Technolog) - Nonlinear Pulse Propagation through Ordered Granular Networks
Andrea Leonard (ET Zürich), Laurent Ponson (Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Chiara Daraio (ET Zürich) - Modulation of solitary waves in woodpile phononic crystals made of stacked cylindrical elements
Eunho Kim (University of South Carolina), Jinkyu Yang (University of South Carolina) - Characteristics of Waves in Media with Periodic Resonant Microstructures
Hsin-Haou Huang (National Taiwan University)
Session Chairs: Jinkyu Yang (University of South Carolina), Laurent Ponson (Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures
Salomon 203
- Large Area Adhesion Measurements for Graphene Interactions
Kenneth Liechti (), Seung Na (UT Austin), Ji Suk (UT Austin), Rodney Ruoff (UT Austin), Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin) - Thin film metallic glasses for substrate fatigue property improvements
Haoling Jia (University of Tennessee), Fengxiao Liu (University of Tennessee), Zhinan An (University of Tennessee), Weidong Li (University of Tennessee), Gongyao Wang (University of Tennessee), Jinn Chu (Nat'l Taiwan Univ. of Sci.Tech), Jason Jang (National Central University), Yanfei Gao (University of Tennessee), Peter Liaw () - In-situ SEM with micro-heater for mechanical testing of thin films at elevated temperatures
Gi-Dong Sim (Harvard University), Joost Vlassak (Harvard University) - Interfacial failure and adhesion between a suspended microscopic polymeric film and its metallic substrate
Wanliang Shan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jing Du (MAE, Princeton University), Wole Soboyejo (MAE, Princeton University)
Session Chairs: Kenneth Liechti (), Peter Liaw ()
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Molecular Dynamic Study of the Mechanical Behavior of Silly Putty
Dibakar Datta (Brown University) - Constitutive modeling of polymeric gels
Shawn Chester (New Jersey Institute of Tech) - A New Strain Energy Function for Hyper-Elastic Constitutive Model
Lixiang Yang (Ohio State University), Sheng-tao John Yu (The Ohio State University) - Direction Dependent Mullins Model for Transversely Isotropic Soft Tissues
MHBM Shariff (Khalifa University)
Session Chairs: Catalin Picu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu), Thao Nguyen (Johns Hopkins University)
Wednesday 10:45 - 12:15
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of G. Ravichandran
Salomon 001
- Use of shock tube to determine the dynamic fracture behavior of engineering materials
Addis Kidane (University of South Carolina), Silas Mallon () - Fracture and impact energy absorption characteristics of PMMA-PU transparent interpenetrating polymer networks
Hareesh Tippur (Auburn University), Kailash Jajam (Auburn University) - Strain Rate and Temperature Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Au Films
Nikhil Karanjgaokar (California Institute of Tech.), Ioannis Chasiotis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Monitoring Microstructural Evolution in Opaque Specimens under Kolsky Bar Loading
Weinong Chen (Purdue)
Session Chairs: Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University), Min Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technolog)
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- The grain size-dependent solute concentration in nanograined materials
Tongyi Zhang (Hong Kong University of Scienc) - Broken Dynamic Symmetry and Phase Transition Precursor
Yongmei Jin (Michigan Tech), Yu Wang (Michigan Tech), Yang Ren (Argonne National Lab) - Phase field approach to structural changes at the nanoscale
Valery Levitas (Iowa State University) - Multiscale Modeling of Three-Dimensional Random Fiber Structures using a Random Walk Approach
Assimina Pelegri (Rutgers University ), Stephen Recchia (Rutgers University) - Modeling cracks and inclusions beneath surfaces under contact loading
Kun Zhou (Nanyang Technological Univ.), Wei Rongbing ()
Session Chairs: Xin-Lin Gao (University of Texas at Dallas), Liping Liu (Rutgers)
SES Medal Symposium in honor of D.J. Steigmann
MacMillan 115
- An Angle Inequality for Judging the Transition from Cassie-Baxter to Wenzel States when a Water Drop Contacts Bottoms of Grooves between Microstructures
Cheng Luo (The University of Texas at Arl) - On Fluids and solids described by implicit constitutive theories
Kumbakonam Rajagopal (Texas A&M University)
Session Chairs: Salvatore Federico (The University of Calgary), Reuven Segev (Ben-Gurion University)
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- Engineering Entropy and Order in Colloidal Suspensions via Molecular Simulation
Fernando Escobedo (Cornell University) - Stresses and particle dynamics in hard sphere crystals under oscillatory shear
George Petekidis (FORTH) - Micropolar Theory and its Application to Nematic Liquid Crystal
James Lee (George Washington University), Jiaoyan Li (The George Washington University) - Static and Dynamic properties of elemental liquid Ni, Co and Hg: An orbital free ab-initio molecular dynamic study
Abu Zafur Ziauddin Ahmed (University of Dhaka), Mohammad Riazuddin Molla (University of Dhaka), Golam Mohammad Bhuiyan (University of Dhaka)
Session Chairs: Roseanna Zia (Cornell University), Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina)
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Mechanics and Physics of Biological Cells
Barus-Holley 141
- Effects of dynein on microtubule mechanics and centrosome positioning
Tanmay Lele (University of Florida), Richard Dickinson (University of Florida), Anthony Ladd (), Jun Wu (), Gaurav Misra () - Navigating the molecular landscape of mechanosensing by the cell cortex
Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins School of Medici), Douglas Robinson (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) - The Molecular Landscape of Mechanosensing by the Cell Cortex
Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins University), Douglas Robinson (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
Session Chairs: Jinghong Fan (Alfred University), Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Shear Localization in Nanocrystalline Metals: A Combined Atomistic and Experimental Study
Amirhossein Khalajhedayati (UC Irvine), Timothy Rupert (UC Irvine) - Atomistic simulation of the inelastic yield and flow behavior of nanocrystalline Cu under multiaxial stress states
Shreevant Tiwari (Georgia Inst of Technology), David McDowell (Gerogia Tech) - Atomistic Mechanisms of Fatigue in Nanotwinned Copper
Xiaoling Zhou (Tsinghua University), Xiaoyan Li (Tsinghua University), Changqing Chen (Tsinghua University)
Session Chairs: Timothy Rupert (UC Irvine), Changqing Chen (Tsinghua University)
Lithium ion batteries: When Chemistry meets Mechanics
Salomon 003
- Measurement and modeling of the mechanical and electrochemical response of amorphous Si thin film electrodes during cyclic lithiation
Giovanna Bucci (Brown University), Siva Nadimpalli (Brown University), Vijay Sethuraman (Brown University), Allan Bower (Brown University), Pradeep Guduru (Brown University) - An Investigation of Stress Evolution and Progressive Phase Transformations in Tin during Electrochemical Lithiation Cycling
Chun-Hao Chen (Brown University), Eric Chason (School of Engineering, Brown University), Pradeep Guduru (Brown University) - In-situ observation of cracking and self healing in Li-ion battery electrodes
Oya Okman (Beckman Institute), Elizabeth Jones (), Scott White (Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois), Nancy Sottos (Dept. of Materials Science and Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Enhanced Li capacity in Defective Graphene and its Allotropes.
Dibakar Datta (Brown University), Junwen Li (University of Pennsylvania ), Vivek Shenoy (The University of Pennsylvania)
Session Chairs: Joost Vlassak (Harvard University), Kejie Zhao (MIT)
Mechanics of Phase Transforming and Multifunctional Materials
CIT 219
- Magnetoelectricity in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic fibrous composites with imperfect interface
Hsin-Yi Kuo (National Chiao Tung University) - Grain Size Effects in Nanocrystalline Shape Memory Alloys
Rajeev Ahluwalia (IHPC), SiuSin Quek (IHPC), David Wu (IHPC) - Isogeometric Analysis of Cubic-to-Tetragonal Martensitic Transformations in Shape Memory Alloy 3D Domains Under Mechanical And Thermal Loads
Rakesh Dhote (University of Toronto), Hector Gomez (University of A Coruna, Spain), Roderick Melnik (Wilfred-Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada), jean Au (University of Toronto, Canada) - Transformation Induced Toughening in Pure Nanocrystalline Aluminum
Sandeep Kumar (UC,Riverside), Aman Haque ()
Session Chairs: Rajeev Ahluwalia (IHPC), Hsin-Yi Kuo (National Chiao Tung University)
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Salomon 202
- Size Effects in the Nanoindentation of Bimetallic Ni-Au Nanowires
Erin Wood (University of Vermont), Trevor Avant (University of Vermont), Gil-Sung Kim (Department of Semiconductor Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University), Sang-Kwon Lee (Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University), John Hughes (Department of Geology, University of Vermont), Frederic Sansoz ( Mechanical Engineering Program, School of Engineering, University of Vermont) - High Mobile Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Band-insulator Heterointerface
Jeong Ho You (Southern Methodist University), Shanshan Su (Southern Methodist University) - Pillared Boron Nitride: mechanical and thermal properties of a new 3D nanostructure
Rouzbeh Shahsavari (Rice University), Navid Sakhavand (Rice University) - Size Effects on Mechanical Properties of Silver Nanowires
Yong Zhu (North Carolina State University), Qingquan Qin (), Guangming Cheng (), Feng Xu ()
Session Chairs: Yong Zhu (North Carolina State University), Jeong Ho You (Southern Methodist University)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Computational Materials Design via Multi-scale Modeling
Barus-Holley 190
- Multi-scale Computational Design of Solute Strengthened Aluminum Alloys
William Curtin (EPFL), Shyam Keravalarma (EPFL), Allan Bower (Brown University), Louis J. Hector, Jr. (General Motors R&D), Raj Mishra (GM Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan, 48090) - GP Multiscale Computational Methods for Designing Multimodal Materials
Jinghong Fan (Alfred University), ross Stewart (Alfred University) - A technique-synergy for the mesoscale, three-dimensional modeling and simulation of metal alloys
Kiran Narayanan (KAUST), Tamer El Sayed (KAUST) - Microscale-Calibrated Modeling of the Deformation Response of Dual-phase Steels
Peng Chen (Brown University), Hassan Ghassemi Armaki (Brown University), Sharvan Kumar (Brown University), Allan Bower (Brown University), Shrikant Bhat (ArcelorMittal Global R&D), Sriram Sadagopan (ArcelorMittal Global R&D)
Session Chairs: Louis J. Hector, Jr. (General Motors R&D), Hanchen Huang (University of Connecticut)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Barus-Holley 161
- Concurrent adaptive multiscale methodology for crack propagation in heterogeneous media
Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder), Mohamedreza Kabiri (University of Colorado Boulder) - Meshfree simulation of compressive damage in quasi-brittle materials
Rena Yu (University of Castilla-La Manc), Gonzalo Ruiz (Univerisity of Castilla-La Mancha), Luis Saucedo (Univerisity of Castilla-La Mancha) - Peridynamics with unstable bonds small horizon limits and dynamic fracture mechanics
Robert Lipton (LSU) - A multi-scale material design framework for predicting fracture toughness as function of microstructure
Yan Li (Georgia Tech), David McDowell (Gerogia Tech), Min Zhou ()
Session Chairs: Yasuhide Shindo (Tohoku University), Herzl Chai (Tel-Aviv University)
Engineering Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
CIT 227
- Experiments and simulation on hydrogen assisted fracture of Nickel-base superalloys
Akbar Bagri (MIT), John Hanson (MIT), Jonathan Lind (CMU), Robert Suter (CMU), Peter Kenesei (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Demkowicz (), Silvija Gradecak () - Stability and Reactivity of Iron Sulfide Passive Films in Sour Environments
Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Tec) - Deformation and Fracture of Polymers used in Oil & Gas Seal Systems
Buc Slay (Weatherford) - Reduced Time Simulation of Rubber in Oilfield Environments
Alex Arzoumanidis (Psylotech)
Session Chairs: Stefan Miska (University of Tulsa), Alex Arzoumanidis (Psylotech)
Mechanics and Dynamics of Periodic Structures
Salomon 101
- Emergent dynamics of dissipative acoustic metamaterials
Mahmoud Hussein (University of Colorado Boulder), Michael Frazier (University of Colorado Boulder) - Harnessing fluid-structure interactions for the design of tunable metamaterials
Filippo Casadei (Harvard university), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Switchable Locally Resonant Metamaterials
Pai Wang (Harvard University), Filippo Casadei (Harvard university), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) - Ultra-light, ultra-stiff mechanical metamaterials
Xiaoyu Zheng (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Joshua Deotte (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Eric Duoss (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Howon Lee (MIT), Joshua Kuntz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Monika Biener (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Sergei Kucheyev (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Nicholas Fang (MIT), Christopher Spadaccini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Session Chairs: Hsin-Haou Huang (National Taiwan University), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University)
Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures
Salomon 203
- Channel cracking in inelastic film/substrate systems
Herzl Chai (Tel-Aviv University) - Buckling Modes of Stiff Thin Films Tuned by the Micro-Patterns on Soft Substrate
Xue Feng (Tsinghua University), Hang Chen (Tsinghua University)
Session Chairs: Junlan Wang (University of Washington), Xue Feng (Tsinghua University)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Solvent-driven shape-memory effects for amorphous networks
Thao Nguyen (Johns Hopkins University) - Mechanics of soft fibrous materials
Catalin Picu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu), Ali Shahsavari () - Time and temperature dependent wrinkling of stiff thin films on shape memory polymers
Jianliang Xiao (University of Colorado Boulder), Hang Qi (University of Colorado Boulder), Yu Wang (University of Colorado Boulder), Kai Yu (University of Colorado Boulder)
Session Chairs: Shawn Chester (New Jersey Institute of Tech), MHBM Shariff (Khalifa University)
Wed 1:30 - 2:50
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials
MacMillan 117
- AN ENERGY MODEL ON THE ENIGMATIC PHENOMENA INDUCED BY THE FOCUSED AND UNFOCUSED INCIDENT CW LIGHT BEAM
Biao Wang (Sun Yat-sen University) - Effects of various factors on interfacial stresses in composites
Ajit Mal (UCLA), Jungki Lee (Hongik University, Korea) - Radon-Stroh formalism for three-dimensional anisotropic elasticity
Federico Buroni (University of Seville), Mitsunori Denda (Rutgers University) - A Validated Computational Model for the Flexural Response of 3D Hybrid Textile Composites
Dianyun Zhang (University of Michigan), Anthony Waas (University of Michigan) - High-k Dielectric Nanocomposites
Jackie Li (City University of New York)
Session Chairs: Jackie Li (City University of New York), Assimina Pelegri (Rutgers University )
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Complex Fluids: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Gels
Barus-Holley 160
- Effects of elevated hematocrit on cerebral blood flow
William Olbricht (Cornell University), Puifai Santisakultarm (Cornell University), Gregory Farber (Cornell University), Nozomi Nishimura (Cornell University), Chris Schaffer (Cornell University) - Buckling, swelling, and catastrophic rupture of porous microcapsules
Sujit Datta (Harvard University), Alireza Abbaspourrad (Harvard University), David Weitz (Harvard University) - Substrate constraints modify the Rayleigh spectrum
Chun-Ti Tang (Cornell University), Josh Bostwick (Cornell University), Paul Steen (Cornell University), Susan Daniel (Cornell University) - A Stochastic Model for High Stokes Number Particle Pair Dynamics in Isotropic Turbulence
Sarma Rani (Univ of Alabama in Huntsville)
Session Chairs: Susan Daniel (Cornell University), William Olbricht (Cornell University)
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- On the Validity of Hardy’s Atomistic-Continuum Thermomechanical Theory
Albert To (University of Pittsburgh), Yao Fu (University of Pittsburgh) - Interatomic potential energy representation and the atomistic stress tensor
Nikhil Chandra Admal (University of Minnesota), Ellad Tadmor (University of Minnesota) - Hierarchy of coarse-graining molecular dynamics models
Xiantao Li (Penn State University)
Session Chairs: Albert To (University of Pittsburgh), Xiantao Li (Penn State University)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 227
- Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Slip and Twinning in c-axis Compression of Magnesium Single Crystals
Yizhe Tang (Johns Hopkins University), Jaafar El-Awady (Johns Hopkins University) - Indentation Simulation of Single Crystal Magnesium using Crystal Plasticity and Molecular Dynamics
Shailendra Joshi (National University of Singapore), Balaji Selvarajou (NUS), Ramin Aghababaei (NUS) - A Fractal Dimension Based Approach to Decipher Grain Boundary Chemomechanics at Quantum Scale
You Sung Han (), Vikas Tomar (Purdue) - A SURFACE STACKING FAULT ENERGY APPROACH TO PREDICTING DEFECT NUCLEATION IN SURFACE-DOMINATED NANOSTRUCTURES
Harold S. Park (Boston University), Timon Rabczuk (), Jin-Wu Jiang (), Ken Gall (), Austin Leach ()
Session Chairs: Shailendra Joshi (National University of Singapore), Harold S. Park (Boston University)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Computational Materials Design via Multi-scale Modeling
Barus-Holley 190
- Design of Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete to Withstand Blast and Impact Loading
Brett Ellis (Georgia Institute of Tech.), David McDowell (Gerogia Tech), Min Zhou () - Virtual Characterization of composites with Lamination Defects for wind turbine spar cap
MUKUNDAN SRINIVASAN (BERGICHE UNIVERSITAT WUPPERTAL) - Molecular Simulation Guided Constitutive Modeling on Finite Viscoelasticity of Elastomers
Ying Li (Northwestern University), Shan Tang (Chongqing University), Brendan C. Abberton (Northwestern University), Martin Kroger (ETH Zurich), Wing Kam Liu (Northwestern University) - Phase-Field-Crystal Modeling of Polycrystalline Plasticity: A Window into Defect-Mediated Phenomena in between Particle and Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
Session Chairs: Jinghong Fan (Alfred University), David McDowell (Gerogia Tech)
Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges
Barus-Holley 161
- The effect cold expansion on the fatigue of aluminium alloy specimen containing fastener hole simulated using Finite Elements Method and Boundary Elements Method
Cedric Maranta-Sinigaglia (Glyndwr University) - Fatigue Behavior of Bulk-Metallic Glasses
Gongyao Wang (University of Tennessee), Yoshihiko Yokoyama (), Xiaoqing Jin (), Leon Keer (), Xie Xie (University of Tennessee), Peter Liaw () - Ip THEORY OF FRACTURE MECHANICS FOR FATIGUE LOADING
VIJAY UKADGAONKER (IIT BOMBAY) - Ip THEORY EXTENDED TO THREE DIMENSIONS
VIJAY UKADGAONKER (IIT BOMBAY)
Session Chairs: Rodica Toader (University of Udine), Rena Yu (University of Castilla-La Manc)
Mechanics and Dynamics of Periodic Structures
Salomon 101
- Elasto-plastic and bifurcation response of chiral, anti-chiral and hierarchical periodic structures
Babak Haghpanah (Northeastern University), Davood Mousanezhad (), Ashkan Vaziri () - Acoustic wave propagation in viscoelastic media with embedded magnetic spheres
Huseyin Aksoy (A Teknoloji) - Multifunctional Applications of Periodic Mechanical Metamaterials
Lifeng Wang (Clarkson University) - Dynamics of an elastic chiral lattice: polarization and shielding properties
Michele Brun (Università di Cagliari), Alexander Movchan (University of Liverpool), Iéan Jones (Liverpool John Moores University)
Session Chairs: Lifeng Wang (Clarkson University), Huseyin Aksoy (A Teknoloji)
Soft Materials and Structures
Barus-Holley 158
- Temperature Triggered Self-Unfolding Carbon Loops
Steven Cranford (Northeastern University) - Thermomechanical Properties and Deformation of Coarse-Grained Models of Hard/Soft Block Copolymers
Zhiwei Cui (), Catherine Brinson (Northwestern University)
Session Chairs: Steven Cranford (Northeastern University), Gal DeBotton (Ben-Gurion Univ.)
Wed 3:10 - 4:30
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 165
- Theory-Based Benchmarking OF The Blended Force-based Quasicontinuum Method
Xingjie Li (Brown University), Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota), Christoph Ortner (University of Warwick), Alexander Shapeev (University of Minnesota) - Construction and analysis of consistent energy based atomistic/continuum coupling method
Lei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy), Christoph Ortner (University of Warwick) - Numerical Analysis of the Blended Quasicontinuum Method
Brian Van Koten (UCLA), Christoph Ortner (University of Warwick), Mitchell Luskin () - Homogenization-based analysis of quasicontinuum method for complex lattices
Ping Lin (University of dundee)
Session Chairs: Ping Lin (University of dundee), Lei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy)
From Atomistics to Reality: Spanning Scales in Simulations and Experiments
CIT 227
- Molecular simulations of sputter deposition and mechanical properties of metallic glass thin films
Yunche Wang (National Cheng Kung University), Chunyi Wu (National Cheng Kung University) - Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density and Nanoindentation Size Effects: An Atomistic Study
Chi-Hua Yu (National Taiwan University), Yi-Pin Chen (National Taiwan University), Chuin-Shan Chen (National Taiwan University) - Understanding the Mechanics of Crazing through Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Sumit Basu (Indian Institute of Technology), Sudarkodi V (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Session Chairs: Patrick Onck (University of Groningen), Sumit Basu (Indian Institute of Technology)
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Mechanics and Dynamics of Periodic Structures
Salomon 101
- Introduction of Novel Split Ring Metamaterial for Acoustic Wave Control
RIAZ AHMED (University of South Carolina), Sourav Banerjee (University of South Carolina) - Guided Wave Propagation Showing Frequency Trapping in Periodic Structure
Sourav Banerjee (University of South Carolina) - Topological Optimization of Two-Dimensional Binary Solid Phononic Crystals Based on the FDTD Method and Multiple-Elitist Genetic Algorithm
Xiao-Xing Su (School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University), Hao-Wen Dong (), yue-Sheng Wang (Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Beijing Jiaotong University), Chuanzeng Zhang (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Siegen)
Session Chairs: Jinkyu Yang (University of South Carolina), Sourav Banerjee (University of South Carolina)