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 |