W. G. Knauss Symposium

Current Trends in Mechanics

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Program

Monday, November 15th

7:30-8:00 a.m. Registration

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks, Richard Murray, Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science;

Music Recital: Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (1. Moderato, 2. Allegro). Tyson Mao ('06, Astrophysics), violin; Leyan Lo ('07 Physics), violin; Collette Salyk (grad. student, Planetary Science) viola; Kevin Peng ('06, Electrical Engineering) cello.

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Session Chair: Ken Liechti

Ioannis Chasiotis
University of Virginia-School of Engineering
Fracture of freestanding polycrystalline silicon films for MEMS

Kyung-Suk Kim, Qunyang Li, Jun Lou, and Shuman Xia
Brown University
From stick-slip to Amontons-Coulomb friction: some experimental observations at the nano and micrometer scales

Julien Hendrickx
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Phillippe Geubelle and Nancy Sottos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laser-induced failure of patterned thin films: spectral simulations

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 noon
Session Chair: Kaushik Bhattacharya

G. Ravichandran, Rongjing Zhang, Doron Shilo, Jean-Thibault de Besombes, and Kaushik Bhattacharya
California Institute of Technology
Mechanical characterization of thin films

Ares Rosakis, M. A. Brown, T.- S. Park, E. Üstündag
California Institute of Technology
Y. Y. Huang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Using CGS interferometry to measure stresses in discontinuous film/substrate systems: a comparison with, x-ray microdiffraction and theory

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Winnett Center

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Session Chair: G. Ravichandran

Igor Emri
Center for Experimental Mechanics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bernd von Bernstorff
BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Multiscale interactions in polymer structure formation

Wei Tong
Yale University
On the spatiotemporal characteristics of Portevin-Le Chatelier deformation bands in Al-Mg alloys

Hongbing Lu
Oklahoma State University
Material characterization and modeling of single-wall carbon nanotube/ polyelectrolyte multilayer composites

Gil Hegemier
University of California, San Diego
On the use of advanced composites for blast hardening of RC structures

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Session Chair: Igor Emri

Sia Nemat-Nasser
University of California, San Diego
Dynamic response of polyurea and polyurethane: experiment, modeling, and simulation

Soma Sekhar Kandula, Jorge Abanto-Bueno, John Lambros, and Philippe Geubelle
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cohesive modeling of quasi-static fracture in functionally graded polymers

K. Ravi-Chandar and Bisen Lin
University of Texas, Austin
On the dynamics of strings and rods

6:00 p.m. Reception

 

Tuesday, November 16th

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Session Chair: Jim Dally

Albert Kobayashi
University of Washington
CTOA as a dynamic ductile fracture criterion

Jay Walton
Texas A&M University
Dynamic generalized plane strain crack propagation in linear viscoelasticity

Gordon Williams
Imperial College, London
Impact shear loading of strips - some numerical results

Herzl Chai
Tel Aviv University, Israel
On the crush worthiness of laterally constrained thin plate members under axial compression

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 noon
Session Chair: Ioannis Chasiotis

Sandeep Sane
Intel Corporation
Role of mechanics in electronic packaging: challenges and trends

Peter Gustafson, Tony Waas
University of Michigan
Stephen Harris and Ann O'Neill
Ford Scientific Laboratories
Measurement of biaxial stress states in silicon using micro-Raman spectroscopy

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch - Winnett Center

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Session Chair: Philippe Geubelle

Jimmy Liu
Phillips Lab, Air Force Research Laboratory
G. Ravichandran
California Institute of Technology
Influence of confining pressure on the crack growth behavior in a highly filled elastomer

Allan Zhong
Halliburton Energy Services
Computational fracture mechanics analysis of truck tire durability

X. Peng, Z. Guo, and Brian Moran
Northwestern University
An anisotropic hyperelastic constitutive model with fiber-matrix shear interaction for the human annulus fibrosus

Dick Christensen
Stanford University
A comparative evaluation of three isotropic, two property failure theories

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Session Chair: K. Ravi-Chandar

Cate Brinson, Hua Liu, T. Ramanathan
Northwestern University
Controlling and modeling the interphase in polymeric nanocomposites

Ken Liechti
University of Texas at Austin
Multiscale analysis of IFM force profiles

4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks - Ares J. Rosakis, Director of GALCIT

6:00 p.m. Reception - Athenaeum

7:00 p.m. Banquet - Athenaeum

last updated: November 12, 2004