Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media

This is a symposium honouring Professor Joe D. Goddard, an alumnus of UIUC, at a senior point in his career. The symposium will cover a wide range of topics in mechanics of heterogeneous media, both fluid and solid.

Organizers

  • Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
    Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC
    217/265-0900
    martinos@uiuc.edu
  • Vitali F. Nesterenko
    University of California, San Diego
    858-534-3980
    vnesterenko@ucsd.edu

Schedule

Tuesday 1

Room Time Talk
Excellence Room 8:00 AM Joe D. Goddard and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media
Excellence Room 8:20 AM Calculation of the Dependence of the Equilibrium Distribution of Configurations of Circularized DNA on Nücleotide Sequence and Salt Concentration
Bernard D. Coleman, Yoav Y. Biton
Excellence Room 8:40 AM Dynamics of cylindrical shell in a coaxially heterogeneous solid
Bojan Guzina, Ronald Pak, Jeramy Ashlock
Excellence Room 9:00 AM Propagation and Localization of Acoustic and Elastic Waves in Strongly Heterogeneous Media
Muhammad Sahimi
Excellence Room 9:20 AM Mechanical damping and softening near the Curie point of barium titanate
Roderic Lakes, Liang Dong, D. Stone

Tuesday 2

Room Time Talk
Excellence Room 11:00 AM Mesomechanics of Critical and Postcritical Behavior of Polymer Based Granular Composits
Vitali Nesterenko, David Benson, Eric B. Herbold, Jing Cai, Ken S. Vecchio, F. Jiang, John W. Addiss, Stephen M. Walley
Excellence Room 11:20 AM Pressure Dependence of Unconsolidated Granular Media: Role of Force Chains and Local Anisotropy
James Berryman, Steven R. Pride
Excellence Room 11:40 AM Polycrystal Simulation and Analysis of Compressive Strength of Shocked AD995 Alumina
Jianbin Zhu, Ruqiang Feng
Excellence Room 12:00 PM Effect of pore clusters on the statistics of peak stress and overall properties of porous material
Igor Sevostianov, Volodymyr Kushch
Excellence Room 12:20 PM Diffuse ultrasonic backscatter from heterogeneous solids through a cylindrical liquid-solid interface
Goutam Ghoshal, Joseph A. Turner

Tuesday 3

Room Time Talk
Excellence Room 2:00 PM Transient Analysis of hydrogels with coupled finite deformation and mass diffusion
Hanqing Jiang, Jiaping Zhang, Xuanhe Zhao, Zhigang Suo
Excellence Room 2:20 PM Large deformation constitutive model for back stress of glassy polycarbonate
Mehrdad Negahban, Ashwani Kumar Goel, Kyle Strabala, Nathan Medeiros Barreto Oliveira, Jonathan Hein, Ruqiang Feng
Excellence Room 2:40 PM Extremum and Variational Principles for Elastic and Inelastic Media with Fractal Geometries
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Excellence Room 3:00 PM On Scaling Properties of Random Semiflexible Fiber Networks
H. Hatami-Marbini, R.c. Picu
Excellence Room 3:20 PM Stochastic Constitutive Model of Amorphous Polymers
James Caruthers, Grigori Medvedev