Prager Medal Symposium in Honor of Richard James: Using Mechanics to Discover New Materials
This symposium is in honor of Richard D. James, winner of the 2008 Prager Medal. This symposium seeks to highlight how mechanics across scales ranging from angstroms to meters has enabled the improvement of existing materials and the discovery of new materials. Speakers with diverse backgrounds and interests will describe various examples and describe how contemporary methods of analysis, computation and experiments have been brought to bear on this subject.
Contributed papers: please contact the organizers before submitting an abstract.
Organizers
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Kaushik Bhattacharya
California Institute of Technology
626-395-8306
bhatta@caltech.edu
Schedule
Monday 1
| Room | Time | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Room | 8:00 AM |
New perspectives on texture evolution David Kinderlehrer, Shlomo Taasan |
| Technology Room | 8:20 AM |
Equilibrium configurations of epitaxially strained crystalline films: existence and regularity results Irene Fonseca |
| Technology Room | 8:40 AM |
On the Symmetry of Energy Minimizing Deformations in Nonlinear Elasticity: Compressible Materials Scott J. Spector, Jeyabal Sivaloganathan |
| Technology Room | 9:00 AM |
Shape Control of Polymeric Sheets Using SMA Wires Raffaella Rizzoni, Mattia Merlin |
| Technology Room | 9:20 AM |
Solutions to the periodic Eshelby inclusion problem in two dimensions Liping Liu |
Monday 2
| Room | Time | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Room | 11:00 AM |
Modeling the forced separation of a molecular bond L. B. Freund |
| Technology Room | 11:40 AM |
Modeling the Mechanics of Viral Capsids William S. Klug, Melissa M. Gibbons, Lin Ma |
| Technology Room | 12:00 PM |
A Model for T4 Tail Sheaths Isaac Chenchiah, Valeriy Slastikov |
| Technology Room | 12:20 PM |
Hydrogels for Vocal Folds Repair Rodney Clifton, Tonia Jiao, Sean Teller, Xinqiao Jia |
Monday 3
| Room | Time | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Room | 2:00 PM |
Effective relations for inhomogeneous elastodynamics and electrodynamics John Willis |
| Technology Room | 2:20 PM |
Minimization variational principles for acoustics, elastodynamics, and electromagnetism in lossy inhomogeneous bodies at fixed frequency Graeme Milton, Pierre Seppecher, Guy Bouchitte |
| Technology Room | 2:40 PM |
Minimum Principles for the Trajectories of Systems Governed by Rate Problems Michael Ortiz |
| Technology Room | 3:00 PM |
Nanomechanics of Carbon Nanotubes Traian Dumitrica |
| Technology Room | 3:20 PM |
Phonon Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes with Arbitary Chirality by the Objective Structures Framework Kaushik Dayal, Ryan S. Elliott |
Monday 4
| Room | Time | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Room | 4:00 PM |
Mathematical Foundations and Algorithms for the Quasicontinuum Method Mitchell Luskin, Marcel Arndt, Matthew Dobson |
| Technology Room | 4:20 PM |
Thermoplastic elastomers: Multiscale modeling and microstructure evolution Pedro Ponte Castañeda, O. Lopez-Pamies, V. Racherla |
| Technology Room | 4:40 PM |
High Pressure Mechanochemistry: Multiscale Theory, Experiment and Search for New Materials Valery Levitas, Yanzhang |
| Technology Room | 5:00 PM |
A Quasicontinuum for Multilattice Phase Transforming Materials Ellad Tadmor, Ryan Elliott, Viacheslav Sorkin |
| Technology Room | 5:20 PM |
About stress-induced phase transformations in shape-memory polycrystals Anja Schlömerkemper, Kaushik Bhattacharya |
Tuesday 1
| Room | Time | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Room | 8:00 AM |
Combinatorial approach to materials discovery Ichiro Takeuchi |
| Technology Room | 8:20 AM |
Breaching the Work Output Limitation of
Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys Doron Shilo, Yaniv Ganor, Tom. W. Shield, Richard D. James |
| Technology Room | 8:40 AM |
An Effective Interaction Potential model of stress- and temperature-induced martensitic transformations in perfect bi-atomic crystals Ryan Elliott, Nick Triantafyllidis, John A. Shaw |
| Technology Room | 9:00 AM |
Nanoscale Piezoelectricity Pradeep Sharma |
Tuesday 2
| Room | Time | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Room | 11:00 AM |
Stability of Shape Memory Alloy Honeycomb under Finite-strain Isothermal Compression Cycles of Various Amplitudes Nicolas Triantafyllidis, Petros Michailidis, John Shaw |
| Technology Room | 11:20 AM |
Some Two-Phase Problems of Nonlinear Elasticity in the Presence of Small Interfacial Energy: A Global Bifurcation Approach Tim Healey |
| Technology Room | 11:40 AM |
Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Novel Ni-Ti-based Shape Memory Alloys Dominique Schryvers, Rémi Delville |
| Technology Room | 12:00 PM |
Mechanics of NiTi Fatigue for Vascular Stent Design Brian Berg |
