Conference Program

 

9:00 – 10:00: Registration & Breakfast

10:00 – 10:30: Introduction of CEE and MechSE departments

10:30 – 11:00: Ben Freund | The force to confine a polymer filament in a thermal environment

11:00 – 11:30: Huseyin Sehitoglu

11:30 – 12:00: Nancy Sottos | Restoration of Large Damage Volumes in Polymers

12:00 – 2:00: Lunch & Poster

2:00 – 2:30: Michael Thouless

2:30 – 3:00: John Rogers | Mechanics of Soft Electronic Systems for the Human Body

3:00 – 3:30: Yonggang Huang | Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling

3:30 – 4:00: Break & discussion

4:00 – 4:30: Martin Ostoja-Starzewski | Second law violations vis-à-vis continuum mechanics

4:30 – 5:00: Thomas Siegmund | Mechanics for Efficient Electric Vehicles

5:00 – 7:00: Student talks (see below)

7:00 – 8:00: Dinner

 

Student talks: (present as sequence)

  1. Mohamed Elsharkawy | Control and Manipulation of Impacting Droplets using Wettability-Engineered materials
  2. Aritra Ghosh | μ-volume liquid manipulation with wettability-patterned surfaces
  3. Haiwen Luan | Soft Network Composite Materials with Deterministic and Bio-Inspired Designs
  4. Mohamed Elhebeary | A Micromechanical Bending Stage for Studying Mechanical Properties of Materials Using Nanoindenter
  5. Matthew Ford | Unraveling the mechanics of the bicycle wheel
  6. Pat Carroll | Water-based Coatings for Extreme Liquid Repellency
  7. Pingju Chen | Nano-Architectured Carbon Nanotubes-Hafnium Diboride Foams
  8. Sohan Kale | Avalanches, percolation, and size-effect in disordered media using a spring lattice model
  9. Wenjie Xia | The Local Elastic Response of Nanoscale Polymer Thin Film under Confinement
  10. Yeguang Xue | Reversible Adhesion of Shape Memory Surface Relief Structures and its Application in Transfer Printing
  11. Yifei Zeng | A phase field dislocation dynamics model for a bi-crystal interface system: an investigation into dislocation slip transmission across cube-on cube interfaces
  12. Xin Qin | Tuning Glass-Transition in Polymer Nanocomposites with Functionalized Cellulose Nanocrystals through Nanoconfiment
  13. Fang Jiang | Efficient & Accurate Beam Theory
  14. Hafizur Rahman | The effect of ligament stiffness on shoulder cartilage pressure during abduction
  15. Hamsasew Sertse | Static Failure Prediction of Composites
  16. Lei Cao | Rate-limited deformation in nanocrytalline Ni
  17. Ning Liu | A Multiscale Approach to Composite Analysis
  18. Tao Song | An Explicit Interface Isogeometric Solution to the Stefan Problem
  19. Waterloo Tsutsui | Mechanical Response and Short Circuit Initiation of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Battery Cells under Compression
  20. Bo Peng | A Micromechanics Theory without Boundary conditions
  21. Ashraf Idkaidek | Cortical Bone Fracture Analysis using XFEM
  22. Pilgyu Kang | Stretchable and conformal photodetector with enhanced photoresponsivity by textured grapheme