Excellence Room Schedule
Symposia are indicated using their letter code in the table below.
Monday 1
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 8:20 AM | AA |
Adhesion at Epoxy Interfaces from Molecular Dynamics Simulation Sarah-Jane Frankland, T. C. Clancy, T. S. Gates |
| 8:40 AM | AA |
Determination of the Time-Dependent Response of Ultrathin Polymer Films Gregory McKenna, Paul OConnell, Shanhong Xu |
| 9:00 AM | AA |
Mechanical Properties of PZT Films and their Composites for RF-MEMS sivakumar yagnamurthy, Ioannis Chasiotis, John Lambros, Ronald Polcavich |
| 9:20 AM | AA |
Thermo-elastic Damping in Pre-stressed Resonators Aman Haque, Sandeep Kumar |
| 9:40 AM | AA |
Dynamic Fracture of Silicon: Quantization of crack speeds and fracture instabilities Markus J. Buehler, Dipanjan Sen |
Monday 2
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 11:20 AM | AA |
Pull-in and Snap-through Instabilities in Transient Deformations of Microelectromechanical Systems Kaushik Das, Romesh C. Batra |
| 11:40 AM | AA |
Strain Rate Dependent Behavior of Nanocrystalline Gold Films Bart Prorok |
| 12:00 PM | AA |
Mechanical Behavior of Au Films in a Large Range of Strain Rates Nikhil Karanjgaokar, Krishna Jonnalagadda, Ioannis Chasiotis, Fernando Stump |
| 12:20 PM | AA |
High Loading Rate Response of Au Microbeams John Lambros, Jamie Kimberley, Ioannis Chasiotis, Ronald Polcawich, Jeffrey Pulskamp, Madan Dubey |
| 12:40 PM | AA |
Dynamic Failure of Multilayer MEMS at Intermediate Loading Rates John Lambros, Jamie Kimberley, Ioannis Chasiotis, Ronald Polcawich, Jeffrey Pulskamp, Madan Dubey |
Monday 3
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 2:20 PM | EE |
Inverse Homogenization: Identification of the structure of composites from effective properties Elena Cherkaev |
| 2:40 PM | EE |
Attainability of Hashin-Shtrikman Bounds for Multiphase Composites Liping Liu |
| 3:00 PM | EE |
Random fluctuations of the solutions to equations with highly oscillatory coefficients Guillaume Bal |
| 3:20 PM | EE |
Singular behavior of the overall properties of high contrast densely packed composite materials Yuliya Gorb, Alexei Novikov, Leonid Berlyand |
| 3:40 PM | EE |
Gradient Estimates for the Conductivity Problems ShiTing Bao, YanYan Li, Biao Yin |
Monday 4
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 4:20 PM | EE |
Quantitative Description of the Morphology of a Randomly-Distributed Particulate Composite Material Seth E. Watts, Daniel A. Tortorelli, Thomas G. Eason |
| 4:40 PM | EE |
The Yield Strength of Composites. Analysis of a Toy Model Guillermo Goldsztein |
| 5:00 PM | EE |
A Multiscale Approach to Model Heterogeneous Materials Qiushi Chen, Jose E. Andrade |
| 5:20 PM | EE |
Local fields in Nonlinear Power Law Materials. Silvia Jimenez, Robert Lipton |
| 5:40 PM | EE |
Optimal Bounds on Local Stress and Strain Fields Inside Random Media Robert Lipton, Bacim Alali |
Tuesday 1
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 8:40 AM | GG |
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 |
| 9:00 AM | GG |
Dynamics of cylindrical shell in a coaxially heterogeneous solid Bojan Guzina, Ronald Pak, Jeramy Ashlock |
| 9:20 AM | GG |
Propagation and Localization of Acoustic and Elastic Waves in Strongly Heterogeneous Media Muhammad Sahimi |
| 9:40 AM | GG |
Mechanical damping and softening near the Curie point of barium titanate Roderic Lakes, Liang Dong, D. Stone |
Tuesday 2
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 11:20 AM | GG |
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 |
| 11:40 AM | GG |
Pressure Dependence of Unconsolidated Granular Media: Role of Force Chains and Local Anisotropy James Berryman, Steven R. Pride |
| 12:00 PM | GG |
Polycrystal Simulation and Analysis of Compressive Strength of Shocked AD995 Alumina Jianbin Zhu, Ruqiang Feng |
| 12:20 PM | GG |
Effect of pore clusters on the statistics of peak stress and overall properties of porous material Igor Sevostianov, Volodymyr Kushch |
| 12:40 PM | GG |
Diffuse ultrasonic backscatter from heterogeneous solids through a cylindrical liquid-solid interface Goutam Ghoshal, Joseph A. Turner |
Tuesday 3
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 2:20 PM | GG |
Transient Analysis of hydrogels with coupled finite deformation and mass diffusion Hanqing Jiang, Jiaping Zhang, Xuanhe Zhao, Zhigang Suo |
| 2:40 PM | GG |
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 |
| 3:00 PM | GG |
Extremum and Variational Principles for Elastic and Inelastic Media with Fractal Geometries Martin Ostoja-Starzewski |
| 3:20 PM | GG |
On Scaling Properties of Random Semiflexible Fiber Networks H. Hatami-Marbini, R.C. Picu |
| 3:40 PM | GG |
Stochastic Constitutive Model of Amorphous Polymers James Caruthers, Grigori Medvedev |
Tuesday 4
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 4:20 PM | FF |
Using Old Materials in New Ways for Photovoltaics John Rogers |
| 5:00 PM | FF |
Materials for the Hydrogen Economy: Embrittlement and Remediation Petros Sofronis, Ian Roberston, Mohsen Dadfarnia, Paul Novak |
| 5:40 PM | FF |
Revisiting the Origins of the Dead-layer in Nanocapacitors and Ramifications for Energy Storage Pradeep Sharma |
Wednesday 1
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 8:20 AM | Z |
Elasticity and Strength Size Effects in Zinc Oxide Nanowires Horacio Espinosa, Bei Peng, Ravi Agrawal, Eleftherios Gdoutos |
| 8:40 AM | Z |
Nonlinear elasticity, slip, and mechanical twinning in ceramic crystals John Clayton |
| 9:00 AM | Z |
A Methodology for Studying Hydrogen Embrittlement in a Steel Pipeline Mohsen Dadfarnia, Petros Sofronis, Brian P. Somerday, Ian M. Robertson |
| 9:20 AM | Z |
Prediction of Micro and Nano Indentation Size Effects from Pyramidal and Spherical Indentation Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub |
| 9:40 AM | Z |
Bauschinger Effect in Unpassivated Freestanding Metal Thin Films Jagannathan Rajagopalan, Jong H. Han, Taher A. Saif |
Wednesday 2
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 11:20 AM | Z |
A Micromechanical Model for the Nonlinear Viscoelastic-Viscoplastic Behaviors of Hybrid Composites Anastasia Muliana, Jeongsik Kim |
| 11:40 AM | Z |
Fatigue Damage Evolution and Reliability Assessment of Cu and Solder Interconnects in 3D Integrated Circuits Leila Ladani |
| 12:00 PM | Z |
Fractal Pattern Formation at Elastic-Plastic Transition in Heterogeneous Materials Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Jun Li |
| 12:20 PM | Z |
Strain Gradient Plasticity with Interface Energy Effects using Consistent Thermodynamics George Voyiadjis, Babur Deliktas |
| 12:40 PM | Z |
Role of Size Effects on Plastic Deformation of Free-Standing _x000D_
Cu Films Ashraf Bastawros, Shakti S. Chauhan |
Wednesday 3
| Time | Symposium | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 2:20 PM | Z |
Interface and surface effects in the mechanical behavior of crystalline materials Marisol Koslowski, Abigail Hunter |
| 2:40 PM | Z |
Strain Localization in Anisotropic Plastic Materials undergoing Microstructural Evolution Haizhen Pan, J.L. Bassani |
| 3:00 PM | Z |
On the Higher-order Nonlocal Gradient Plasticity Theory and its Non-classical Microscopic Boundary Conditions for Size Effects Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub |
| 3:20 PM | Z |
An analysis of the size effect in void growth in single crystals _x000D_
using discrete dislocation dynamics Javier Segurado, Ignacio Romero, Javier LLorca |
| 3:40 PM | Z |
Multiscale modeling of covalent materials through an atomistic field theory Liming Xiong, Youping Chen |
