April 9 and 10, 2016. Starting at 12:00 noon on Saturday and finishing at 12:00 noon on Sunday
Saturday April 9th
12:00pm -1:00pm: Registration
1:00pm – 1:15pm: Welcome introduction and announcements
Session 1: Chairs – Charles Smith & Yang Lai
1:15pm – 1:30pm: Logan Rowe (UIUC) – Failure Analysis of Solar Cell Wafers Using IR Photoelasticity and Weibull Statistics
1:30pm – 1:45pm: Jiho Kim (UIUC) – Soft Hydrated Sliding Interfaces as Complex Fluids
1:45pm – 2:00pm: Tianyu Yu (Iowa State): Mechanics in Micro machining
2:00pm – 2:15pm: Tooba Shoaib (UIUC) – Development of a Non-Living Model System for Cell Membranes to investigate Cell Interactions with Nanoparticles
2:15pm – 2:30pm: Dimitrios Antartis (UIUC): Spring films as interfacial materials
2:30pm – 2:45pm: Mina Bastwros (Iowa State) – Fabrication of metal laminate composites with interface
2:45pm – 3:00pm: Mohamed Elhebeary (UIUC): In-situ thermomechanical testing of Single Crystal Silicon
3:00pm – 3:30pm: Break (coffee and donuts)
Session 2: Chairs – Mina Basters & Dimitrios Antartis
3:30pm – 3:45pm: Denizhan Yavas (Iowa State) – Measurement of Bond Line Fracture Toughness in Adhesively Bonded Composite Structures by Nano-indentation
3:45pm – 4:00pm: Juyoung Leem (UIUC): Mechanically self-assembled, thee-dimensional graphene-gold hybrid structures for advanced nanoplasmonic sensors
4:00pm – 4:15pm: Hajar Sharif (UIUC): Joint Stiffness and Malunion
4:15pm – 4:30pm: William Hays (Missouri S&T): An experimental set-up for probing domain switching in ferroelectrics at cryogenic temperatures
4:30pm – 4:45pm: Andrew Lauer (UIUC): A Model Composite – Examining Composite Properties at the Tow Level
4:45pm – 5:00pm: Erik Reale (UIUC): Hydrogel Surface Energy and its Effect on Friction
5:00pm – 5:15pm: Walkien Goh (Purdue): Mechanical Characterization of Lithium Rich Cathode Materials
5:15pm – 5:30pm: Josue Lopez (UIUC): Relationship between microstructure and mechanical behavior of biomimetic amorphous minerals
5:30pm – 5:45pm: Kaihao Zhang (UIUC): Fabrication and Characterization of Ultra-long Metal Nanowire by Laser Draw-Casting Process
5:45pm – 6:00pm: Inkyu Oh (UIUC) – Tunable wettability and oscillatory behavior of droplets on Dynamic SLIPS
6:00pm: Dinner (provided) and Photo
Sunday April 10th
8:30am – 9:00am: Breakfast (coffee + donuts)
Session 3: Chairs – Denizhan Yavas & Inkyu Oh
9:00am – 9:15am: Luis Jurado (UIUC): Nanotribology of Ionic Liquids
9:15am – 9:30am: Charles Smith (UIUC) – Exploring the Factors Influencing a Ferroelastic Toughening Mechanism in Ceramic Materials
9:30am – 9:45am: Abdullah Alshaya (Wisconsin-Madison): Hybrid Full-Field Stress Analysis of Finite Structures Subjected to a Concentrated Load Using Mapping-Collocation Technique
9:45am – 10:00am: Yang Hu (UIUC): In situ characterization of fracture toughness and dynamics of nanocrystalline titanium nitride films
10:00am – 10:15am: Jonghyun Choi (UIUC): Three-Dimensional Assembly of Two-Dimensional Materials via Substrate Engineering
10:15am – 10:30am: Break
Session 4: Chairs – Abdullah Alshaya & Konik Kothari
10:30am – 10:45am: Yang Lai (UIUC): Dynamic indentation method in characterizing poroelastic materials
10:45am – 11:00am: YikTungTracy Ling (UIUC): Mechanical and Structural properties of deproteinized bones
11:00am – 11:15am: Darren Bell (Purdue) – Scaling of Fracture Toughness for 3d Printed Parts
11:15am – 11:30am: Gregory Sparks (UIUC): Studying the dynamics of intermittent plasticity by micro-column compression
11:30am – 11:45pm: Peter Shyu (UIUC): Mechanical and structural properties of deproteinized bones
11:45am – 12:00pm: Yinglong Chen (Purdue) : Tensile strength test on a fiberglass non-woven material
12:00pm: Closing Remarks