Place:

Room 115, MacMillan Hall, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI

Symposium Schedule       Printable version here

5:00 pm—7:00 pm

Reception (Brown Faculty Club)

August 16, 2006, Wednesday

August 17, 2006, Thursday

8:50 am

Gathering

· Fracture and Friction Problems in Solids

Chair: John Bassani

James R. Rice & Nadia Lapusta:

Fault rupture with strong dynamic weakening (25 min each)

9:00 am-9:50 am

John R. Willis:  Crack front waves are dispersive

Yehuda Ben-Zion: Dynamic rupture and energy partition in models of earthquake faults

9:50 am-10:40 am

Break (20 mins)

Rene de Borst: Simulation of fracture using cohesive segments

Ted Belytschko: Applications of the extended finite element method to fracture and dislocations

11:00 am-11:50 am

Lunch

11:50 am-1:00 pm

· Mechanics of Small Length Scale Mechanisms

Chair: Lallit Anand

V. Deshpande/A. Benzerga: Size effects in discrete dislocation plasticity

Christian Niordson: Size effects in plasticity – continuum versus discrete dislocation models

1:00 pm-1:50 pm

Subra Suresh: Single-protein contributions to cell mechanics and their consequences for human diseases

Emily Carter: Origins of Failure in Thermal Barrier Coatings

1:50 pm-2:40 pm

Break (20 mins)

Yves Brechet:  Microstructural scales and mechanical behavior: scale effect on work hardening

Mort Gurtin: Gradient single-crystal plasticity with backstress due to Burgers-vector induced dislocation densities and dissipation due to slip rate gradients

3:00 pm-3:50 pm

· Panel Discussion I (Research and Education)

Chair: Lallit Anand

John Bassani(scale effect), Mike Baskes(atomistics), Kyung-Suk Kim(fracture at a small length scale),  Nicolas Triantafyllidis(continuum), Allan Bower(scale effect in contact and friction)

3:50 pm-4:50 pm

Cocktail Hour

6:30 pm

Dinner Banquet (Brown Faculty Club)

7:00 pm-9:00 pm

August 18, 2006, Friday

8:50 am

Gathering

· Stability Problems in Solids and Structures

Chair: Frithiof I. Niordson

L. Ben Freund: A lower bound on receptor density for stable cell adhesion due to thermal undulations                   

Joost Vlassak: Plastic deformation of free standing thin films: experiments and   modeling

9:00 am-9:50 am

Stelios Kyriakides: Bending Instabilities of Tubes with Luders Bands

Pradeep Guduru: Mechanics of wavy surface detachment

9:50 am-10:40 am

Break (20 mins)

K.D. Sorensen /Henrik Jensen: Effects of substrate curvature on buckling-driven   delamination

Ahmed Benallal: Rate-dependent instabilities

11:00 am-11:50 am

Lunch

11:50 am-1:00 pm

· Mechanics of Small Length Scale Structures

Chair: Robert M. McMeeking

John W. Hutchinson: Material aspects of dynamic neck retardation

William A. Curtin: Headed toward the bottom: coupling atomistic dynamics to dislocation dynamics

1:00 pm-1:50 pm

Wole Soboyejo: Cold welding and pattern transfer in organic electronics

Zhigang Suo: Mechanics of flexible electronics

1:50 pm-2:40 pm

Break (20 mins)

Huajian Gao: Multiscale cohesive laws and hierarchical energy dissipation in biological materials

Yonggang Huang: A cohesive law for carbon naotube/polymer interfaces based on the van der Waals force

3:00 pm-3:50 pm

· Panel Discussion II (Research and Education)

Chair: Robert M. McMeeking

Frithiof I. Niordson(education), Paul Sorensen(computation), Erik Van der Giessen(structure/stability), Seh Chun Lim(education), Rodney J.Clifton(experiment)

3:50 pm-4:50 pm

Closing Lobster Dinner (Wharf  Tavern)

6:30 pm-9:00 pm