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Thursday Morning (4/28) - 8-11 am MDT

Characterization of Time-dependent Mechanical Behaviors

  1. Gabriel Sanoja (University of Texas at Austin)
    • Why is Fatigue different from Toughness in Elastomers? The Role of Network Chain Scission
  2. Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    • The Nonlinear Viscoelastic Response of Suspensions of Rigid Inclusions and Vacuous Bubbles in Rubber
  3. Jerry Qi (Georgia Tech)
    • Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing and 4D Printing
  4. Shawn Chester (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
    • Viscoelastic behavior of gels
  5. Michelle Oyen (Washington University in St. Louis)
    • Indentation characterization of time-dependent mechanical behavior of hydrogels
  6. ​Chockalingam Senthilnathan and Jian Li (Cohen's Mechanics Group, MIT)
    • Novel Cavity Induced Characterization Techniques for Soft Rate-dependent Material Properties

Thursday Afternoon (4/28) - 3-6 pm MDT

Energy Dissipation of Micro-architectured Materials

  1. Carson Bruns (CU Boulder)
    • Tuning the unusual stress dissipation and actuation properties of biodegradable slide-ring networks
  2. Shengqiang Cai (University of California San Diego)
    • Fracture of vitrimers, liquid crystal elastomers, and hydrogels​
  3. Franck Vernerey (CU Boulder)
    • Statistical mechanics of cross-linked nematic networks
  4. Ying Li (University of Connecticut)
    • Ultra-high Modulus of Resilience in Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites
    • Kai Yu (University of Colorado Denver)
      • Increasing the absorption characteristics of polymer foams

    Friday Morning (4/29) - 8-11 am MDT

    Fracture and Adhesive Mechanics

    1. Nikolaos Bouklas (Cornell University)
      • A statistical mechanics framework for chain scission, based on the concepts of distorted bond potential and asymptotic matching​
      • Luca Cipelletti (Université de Montpellier)
        • Probing simultaneously the mechanical properties and microscopic dynamics of soft networks
      • Xuanhe Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        • An Extreme Toughening Mechanism for Soft Materials
      • Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
        • Topology, Geometry, and Fracture in Networked Materials: A tale of Scales
      • Ruobing Bai (Northeastern)
        • Fatigue of Hydrogels and What We Have Learned So Far

        Friday Afternoon (4/29) - 3-6 pm MDT

        Dynamically Bonded Polymer Networks

          1. Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania)

            • Emergence of viscosity and dissipation via stochastic bonds
          • Fay Salmon (3M)
            • Industry Perspective: Pressure Sensitive Adhesives and Biomaterials
          • Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin)
            • Thermally activated chain scission
          • Meredith Silberstein (Cornell University)
            • Elastomers with reversible and irreversible crosslinks
          • Rong Long (CU Boulder)
            • Fracture of viscoelastic solids: steady state crack growth and beyond