The 4th Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Materials and Tissues
Soft materials are important to a wide range of engineering and biomedical applications. Examples of soft materials include engineering polymers (rubbers, thermoplastics, and thermosets), active polymers (shape memory polymers and piezoelectric polymers), polymer composites, and soft tissues (cornea, arteries, skin). The mechanical behavior of soft materials is complex, often exhibiting large deformation, anisotropy, nonlinear inelasticity, and rate-dependent failure. The complex behavior of soft tissues and composites stems from a heterogenous microstructure, that can exhibit organization over multiple length scales. Further complicating matters, the behavior of soft active materials and tissues encompass multiple coupled physical phenomena such as themo-viscoelasticity, electro-elasticity, stress-driven transport, remodeling, and growth.
The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers to share recent advances and inspire new concepts in the area of soft materials mechanics. Researchers are invited to present their recent work in constitutive modeling, finite element modeling, and experimental investigations of large deformation and inelastic behavior, multiphysics behavior, failure behavior, structure-function relationship, remodeling, and degradation of soft materials and material systems, and in particular of:
- Engineering polymers and polymer composites
- Active polymer and polymer composites such as shape memory polymers, environmentally responsive gels, and piezoelectric polymers
- Liquid crystal elastomers
- Polymer-based flexible macroelectronics
- Soft fibrous tissues, such as arteries, skin, and brain tissues
- Cells and cytoskeletal systems
Organizers
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H. Jerry Qi
University of Colorado
qih@colorado.edu -
Thao D. Nguyen
Johns Hopkins University
410-516-4538
vicky.nguyen@jhu.edu
Schedule
Tuesday 1
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 8:00 AM |
Nonlinear Viscoelastic Relaxation and Recovery of Porcine Flexor Tendon Sarah Duenwald, Ray Vanderby, Jr., Roderic Lakes |
Lincoln Room | 8:40 AM |
Native and Engineered Knee Ligament Mechanics Ellen Arruda, Jinjin Ma |
Lincoln Room | 9:00 AM |
A constitutive model considering the orthotropy of the elastic and collagen fiber networks Philip Kao, Steven R. Lammers, H. Jerry Qi, Robin Shandas |
Lincoln Room | 9:20 AM |
Finite Element Modeling of Intraneural Ganglion Cysts of the Common Peroneal Nerve Gregory Odegard, Shreehari Elangovan, Duane Morrow, Robert Spinner |
Tuesday 2
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 11:00 AM |
Fe3O4-Filled Shape-Memory Polymer Networks for Inductive Heating Christopher Yakacki, Nitin Satarkar, Ken Gall, Roxanne Likos, Zach Hilt |
Lincoln Room | 11:20 AM |
Identifying the distribution of elastic properties in thin soft tissues Jia Lu, Xuefeng Zhao |
Lincoln Room | 12:00 PM |
Shear Piezoelectricity in Individual 100 nm-Diameter Collagen Type I Fibrils Majid Minary-Jolandan, Min-Feng Yu |
Lincoln Room | 12:20 PM |
Torsional buckling and supercoiling of fluctuating DNA Prashant Purohit |
Tuesday 3
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 2:00 PM |
Determining materials properties from an oscillating sphere in viscoelastic media Kathleen Toohey, Marko Orescanin, Michael Insana |
Lincoln Room | 2:20 PM |
Inhomogeneous swelling of a gel in equilibrium with a solvent and mechanical load Wei Hong, Zishun Liu, Zhigang Suo |
Lincoln Room | 2:40 PM |
Control of the Stress Relaxation Properties of Polymeric Hydrogels with Hybrid Crosslinkings Xuanhe Zhao, Nathaniel D. Huebsch, David J. Mooney, Zhigang Suo |
Lincoln Room | 3:00 PM |
Modeling the Coupled Diffusion and Swelling Deformation of Hydrogels Kristofer Westbrook, H. Jerry Qi |
Tuesday 4
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 4:00 PM |
Dynamic Compressive Response of Soft Biological Tissues Weinong Chen |
Lincoln Room | 4:40 PM |
Dynamic Response of Bovine Gray Matter and White Matter Brain Tissues under Compression Farhana Pervin, Weinong Chen |
Lincoln Room | 5:00 PM |
In Vitro Dynamic Response of Porcine Brain Tissue in Uniaxial Compression and Indentation Thibault Prevost, Simona Socrate, Subra Suresh |
Lincoln Room | 5:20 PM |
Explosive Blast Loading Experiments of Model Systems:
Characterization and Mitigation Steven Son, Matthew D. Alley |
Wednesday 1
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 8:00 AM |
Mechanical Response of Neuronal Cells for Understanding Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury Kristin Bernick, Thibault Prevost, Simona Socrate, Subra Suresh |
Lincoln Room | 8:20 AM |
Constitutive modeling of rate dependent stress-strain behavior of human liver tissue in blunt impact loading Rebecca Dupaix, Jessica L. Sparks |
Lincoln Room | 8:40 AM |
The strain rate-dependent response of bovine liver tissue Kumar Vemaganti, Esra Roan |
Lincoln Room | 9:00 AM |
Numerical Simulation of the Onset and Development of Aneurysms David Steigmann, Ryan Krone, Tarek Zohdi |
Wednesday 2
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 11:00 AM |
Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites as Soft Actuators and Sensors Sia Nemat-Nasser |
Lincoln Room | 11:40 AM |
A Thermoviscoelastic Model for Amorphous Shape Memory Polymers:Incorporating Structural and Stress Relaxation Thao Nguyen |
Lincoln Room | 12:00 PM |
Mechanical instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers Robin Selinger, Badel Mbanga, Jonathan V. Selinger |
Wednesday 3
Room | Time | Talk |
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Lincoln Room | 2:00 PM |
An Advanced Thermomechanical Constitutive Model for UHMWPE Jorgen Bergstrom, Jeffrey E. Bischoff |
Lincoln Room | 2:20 PM |
Constitutive Modeling of Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) at Large Strains near the Glass Transition Kamakshi Singh, Rebecca B. Dupaix |
Lincoln Room | 2:40 PM |
On the specific characteristics of soft polymers in nanoindentation tests Susan Enders, Julia Deuschle, Matthias Deuschle, Johann Michler, Gerhard Buerki, Emerson De Souza |
Lincoln Room | 3:00 PM |
An Elastic Micropolar Mixture Theory for Predicting Elastic Properties of Cellular Materials Gregory Odegard, Shreehari Elangovan, Burhanettin S. Altan |
Lincoln Room | 3:20 PM |
Initial yield behavior of stretching and bending dominated metallic cellular solids Maen Alkhader, Murat Vural |