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