Program
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
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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
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