Illinois Ballroom B Schedule

Symposia are indicated using their letter code in the table below.

Monday 1

Time Symposium Talk
8:20 AM C Interfacial Plasticity Governs Strain Rate Sensitivity and Ductility in Nanostructured Metals
Ting Zhu
8:40 AM C Strength of Quansibrittle Ceramics: Impossibility of Finite Weibull Threshold and Statistical Justification in Nano-Mechanics
Zdenek P. Bazant, Jia-Lian Le, Sze-Dai Pang
9:00 AM C Experiments and Simulations in Twinning
Huseyin Sehitoglu
9:20 AM C Virtual Melting as a Mechanism of Crystal-Amorphous And_x000D_ Crystal-Crystal Phase Transformations and Plastic Relaxation
Valery Levitas
9:40 AM C On the Fracture of Bone and its Biological Degradation
Robert Ritchie

Monday 2

Time Symposium Talk
11:20 AM C Protein Mechanics: A New Frontier in Biomechanics
Gang Bao
11:40 AM C A Viscoelastic Model of Axons in Drosophila Embryonic System
Shengyuan Yang, Scott Siechen, Alireza Tofangchi, Jie Sung, Akira Chiba, Taher Saif
12:00 PM C How protein materials balance strength, robustness and adaptability
Sinan Keten
12:20 PM C Quantitative Characterization of 3-D Deformations of Cell Interactions with Soft Biomaterials
Guruswami Ravichandran, Christian Franck, Stacey A. Maskarinec, David A. Tirrell
12:40 PM C The mechanics of the cytoskeleton and cell adhesions
Robert M McMeeking, Vikram S Deshpande, Anthony G Evans

Monday 3

Time Symposium Talk
2:20 PM C The stiffness of a biomembrane force probe vesicle
L. B. Freund
2:40 PM C Beyond Bells model: How matrix stiffness can alter ligand-receptor kinetics
Krystyn Van Vliet, Emily B. Walton, Ranjani Krishnan, Sunyoung Lee
3:00 PM C Mechanical Insights into the Pathophysiology of Malaria
Chwee Teck Lim, Ang Li, Gabriel Yew Hoe Lee, Kevin Shyong Wei Tan
3:20 PM C Electronic Structure Calculations using Hartree-Fock-based Finite Element Method
K. Jimmy Hsia, Rouholla Alizadegan
3:40 PM C Probing cell mechanics with light
Gabriel Popescu, Huafeng Ding, Ru Wang, Zhuo Wang

Monday 4

Time Symposium Talk
4:20 PM C Formation of creases on the surfaces of elastomers and gels
Zhigang Suo, Wei Hong, Xuanhe Zhao
4:40 PM C A Meso-Structurally based Continuum Model for the Dynamic response of Woven Fabrics
Simona Socrate, Ethan M. Parsons
5:00 PM C Molecular Engineering of Cellular Environments: Cell Adhesion to Nano-Digital Surfaces
Joachim P Spatz
5:20 PM C Rate Dependent Mechanics of Polymeric Nanofibers
Mohammad Naraghi, Ioannis Chasiotis

Tuesday 1

Time Symposium Talk
8:20 AM C Scale Dependent Contact Strength of Gold Nano-Asperities
Shuman Xia, Kyung-Suk Kim
8:40 AM C Plastic Strain Recovery in Freestanding Nanocrystalline Metal Films
Jagannathan Rajagopalan, Jong H. Han, Taher A. Saif
9:00 AM C Constrained Deformation in Thin Metal Films: A Modeling Perspective with Case Studies
Yu-Lin Shen
9:20 AM C Mechanical and Interface Properties of Single Carbon Nanofibers for Polymer Nanocomposites
Tanil Ozkan, Qi Chen, Ioannis Chasiotis
9:40 AM C Self-Assembled Nanostructures in Mixed Epitaxials layers of Compound Semiconductors and their influence on Devices
Subhash Mahajan

Tuesday 2

Time Symposium Talk
11:20 AM C Length scales in deformation and fracture of amorphous alloys
Upadrasta Ramamurty
11:40 AM C Improving Both Strength and Ductility of Nanostructured Materials with Nanoscale Twins
Ming Dao
12:00 PM C An atomistic-continuum field theory, its relation with microcontinuum theories and its applications in multiscale simulation
Youping Chen, Liming Xiong
12:20 PM C Interfacial Gradient Plasticity Governs Scale-Dependent Yield Strength and Strain Hardening Rates at Decreasing Microstructural Length Scales
Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub
12:40 PM C Effects of Transformation Strain and Elastic Contrast on Directed Assembly of Nanostructures
Yucun Lou, John Bassani