Symposium Schedule

Wednesday, June 1: Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel

05:00-07:00pm: Reception

Thursday, June 2: Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel

07:00-08:00 am: Continental Breakfast

08:00-08:30 am: Opening Ceremony

08:30-10:00 am: Session 1 - Dynamics of Solids in Broad Scales
(Chair: M. Zhou, A. Bower)

J. R. Rice: Earthquake rupture dynamics with strong thermal weakening

A. J. Rosakis: The seismological wind tunnel: The unique ground shaking of
supershear earthquakes and its effects on buildings

J. R. Willis: Effective constitutive relations for waves in composites

10:00-10:30 am: Coffee Break/Posters

10:30-12:00 pm: Session 2 - Biomechanics in Broad Scales
(Chair: Y. Lin, J. Tang)

M. J. Buehler: Tu(r)ning weakness to strength

R. Phillips: The greening of biology

G. Bao: Understanding the mechanics of cells and biomolecules

12:00-01:30 pm: Lunch/Posters

01:30-02:30 pm: Session 3 - Mechanics of Energy Materials
(Chair: J. W. Kysar, W. A. Curtin)

R. M. McMeeking: Models for lithium-ion battery performance and damage

H. Johnson: Mechanics of quantum dots for intermediate band solar cells

02:30-03:30 pm: Panel Discussion -
Frontiers in mechanics derived from applications in broad scales

J. L. Bassani

K. J. Hsia

B. W. Sheldon

03:30-04:00 pm: Coffee Break/Posters

04:00-05:30 pm: Session 4 - New Insights in Nonlinear Mechanics of Solids
(Chair: Y. W. Zhang, P. Guduru)

L. Anand: Thermo-mechanics of shape-memory polymers

O. Lopez - Pames: Cavitation instabilities in soft solids: A defect-growth theory and
applications to elastomers

K. Van Vliet: Chemomechanics of cell-material interactions: Pulling it all together
(This talk is continued from Session 2.)

05:30-07:00 pm: Posters/Cocktail Reception

07:00-09:00 pm: Banquet, Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel

Friday, June 3: Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel

07:00-08:00 am: Continental Breakfast/Posters

08:00-09:00 am: Session 5 - New Insights in Micromechanics of Structural Instabilities
(Chair: S. Mandre, E. Chason)

J. Hutchinson: From wrinkles to creases in elastomers: The extreme imperfection-
sensitivity of wrinkling

K. Bertoldi: Soft materials: Functionality through instabilities and deformations

09:00-10:00 am: Session 6 - Micromechanics of Stretchable Functional Materials
(Chair: R. Huang, C. Franck)

Z. Suo: Giant voltage-induced deformation in dielectric elastomers: Theory and
experiment

Y. Huang: Mechanics of stretchable electronics

10:00-10:30 am: Coffee Break/Posters

10:30-12:00 pm: Session 7 - Advanced Molecular Mechanics of Solids
(Chair: J. Freund, V. B. Shenoy)

R. James: Compatibility and hysteresis

P. Purohit: Brownian motion and elasticity in biological filaments and networks

N. C. Admal and E. B. Tadmor: Interatomic potentials, Forces and the uniqueness of
stress

12:00-01:30 pm: Lunch/Posters

01:30-02:30 pm: Session 8 - New Insights in Experimental Dynamics of Solids
(Chair: X. Markenscoff, J. Blume)

K. Ravi-Chandar: Dynamic ductile failure in polycrystalline materials

G. Ravichandran: Converging shocks in solids using Mach waves

02:30-03:30 pm: Session 9 - Mechanics of Nanostructures
(Chair: N. Sottos, S. Kumar)

S. B. Hutchens, A. Needleman, and J. Greer: Deformation analysis of hierarchical
carbon nanotube bundles under uniaxial compression

J. J. Vlassak: Combinatorial nanocalorimetry of thin metallic films

03:30-04:00 pm: Coffee Break/Posters

04:00-05:00 pm: Panel Discussion -
Frontiers in mechanics derived from response mechanisms of materials

D. M. Parks

T. Nakamura

Y. Gao

05:00-05:30 pm: Closing Lecture by L. B. Freund (Chair: H. Gao)

07:00-09:00 pm: Closing Lobster Dinner, DeWolf Tavern, Bristol, RI

(Final)

(OC)