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Soft Materials and Structures


Time Location Session Chair Paper Authors
Mon 9:00 - 10:30 Barus-Holley 158 Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst), Pedro Reis (MIT) 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)
Mon 10:45 - 12:15 Barus-Holley 158 Shengqiang Cai (UCSD), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University) 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)
Mon 2:40 - 4:00 Barus-Holley 158 Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston), Xue Feng (Tsinghua University) 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 ()
Mon 4:20 - 5:40 Barus-Holley 158 Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin), Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania) 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)
Tue 9:00 - 10:30 Barus-Holley 158 Christian Franck (Brown University), Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin) 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 ()
Tue 10:45 - 12:15 Barus-Holley 158 Benny Davidovitch (UMass Amherst), Zi Chen (Washington University) 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)
Tue 4:20 - 5:40 Barus-Holley 158 Stephan Rudykh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Henann (Brown University) 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)
Wed 9:00 - 10:30 Barus-Holley 158 Catalin Picu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu), Thao Nguyen (Johns Hopkins University) 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)
Wed 10:45 - 12:15 Barus-Holley 158 Shawn Chester (New Jersey Institute of Tech), MHBM Shariff (Khalifa University) 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)
Wed 1:30 - 2:50 Barus-Holley 158 Steven Cranford (Northeastern University), Gal DeBotton (Ben-Gurion Univ.) 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)