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Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng: Micromechanics, Composites and Multifunctional Materials


Time Location Session Chair Paper Authors
Mon 9:00 - 10:30 MacMillan 117 Jackie Li (City University of New York), Abhijit Bhattacharyya (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) 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)
Mon 10:45 - 12:15 MacMillan 117 Minoru Taya (University of Washington), Dimitris Lagoudas (Texas A&M University) 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)
Mon 2:40 - 4:00 MacMillan 117 Qingpingng SUN (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech), Mona Zebarjadi (Rutgers University) 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)
Mon 4:20 - 5:40 MacMillan 117 Ronald Armstrong (University of Maryland), Stephen Tse (Rutgers University) 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)
Tue 9:00 - 10:30 MacMillan 117 Dimitris Lagoudas (Texas A&M University), Lizhi Sun (UC Irvine) 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)
Tue 10:45 - 12:15 MacMillan 117 Huanyu CHENG (Northwestern University), CHUNYU LI (Purdue University) 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)
Tue 2:40 - 4:00 MacMillan 117 Jackie Li (City University of New York), A.K. Soh (Monash University) 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)
Tue 4:20 - 5:40 MacMillan 117 Keivan Esfarjani (Rutgers University), Yuan Lin (The University of Hong Kong) 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)
Wed 9:00 - 10:30 MacMillan 117 Jianmin Qu (Northwestern University), Huiming Yin (Columbia University) 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)
Wed 10:45 - 12:15 MacMillan 117 Xin-Lin Gao (University of Texas at Dallas), Liping Liu (Rutgers) 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 ()
Wed 1:30 - 2:50 MacMillan 117 Jackie Li (City University of New York), Assimina Pelegri (Rutgers University ) 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)