The Micromechanics of Interfaces

An International Symposium in Honor of Professor Leon Keer

Symi, Greece
July 18-23, 2010


Chair:
Xanthippi Markenscoff
University of California
San Diego

Presentations

Symi Symposium Pictures


Program

Monday, July 19, 2010
9:00 - 9:40 Leon Keer A unified theory for modeling damage to real surfaces in contact
9:40 - 10:20 Thomas Farris
Rutgers University
Micromechanics Analysis of Fretting Fatigue
10:20 - 11:00 Michael Santare
University of Delaware
Micromechanics of the adsorption and deformation of PFSA membranes
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:55 Julia R. Weertman
Northwestern University
Damage at the interface between nanotwinned and de-nanotwinned regions in fatigued nanotwinned copper
11:55 - 12:35 Michele Ciavarella
Bari, Italy
On recent atomistic simulations of rough contact between solids, and Greenwood and Williamson theories
 
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
9:00 - 9:40 Kyriakos Komvopoulos
UC Berkeley
Contact Electromechanics
9:40 - 10:20 Johannes Weertman
Northwestern University
Moving edge dislocations near an interface solved only with discrete ones
10:20 - 11:00 J-B Leblond
U. Paris VI, French Academy of Sciences
In-plane coalescence of cracks
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:55 Jianmin Qu
Northwestern University
Micromechanics of interfaces
11:55 - 12:35 Huajian Gao
Brown University
Dislocation Shielding of a Cohesive Crack: Analytical Model and Discrete Dislocation Studies
 
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
9:00 - 9:40 L.B. Freund
Brown University
The role of force in molecular bond breaking
9:40 - 10:20 Shaofan Li
UC Berkeley
Multiscale Simulations of Soft Contact and Adhesion of Stem Cells
10:20 - 11:00 Xanthippi Markenscoff
UC San Diego
Driving forces on moving defects: dislocations and inclusion boundaries
  Excursion  
 
Thursday, July 22, 2010
9:00 - 9:40 Irina Goryacheva
Russian Academy of Sciences
Modeling of friction at macro- and microscales
9:40 - 10:20 Michael Marder
U Texas, Austin
Supersonic Fractures in Tension
10:20 - 11:00 Viggo Tvergaard
Technical University of Denmark
A mechanism for ductile fracture in shear
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:55 Surendra Shah
Northwestern University
Manipulating Properties of Concrete Through Nanotechnology
11:55 - 12:35 Cristian Dascalu
Grenoble, France
Two-scale modeling of granular media with fluid-filled cohesive interfaces
 
Friday, July 23, 2010
9:00 - 9:40 Feodor Borodich
Cardiff, UK
Depth-sensing indentation and mechanics of adhesive contact
9:40 - 10:20 H.D. Bui
France, Academy of Sciences
Identification of planar crack and volumic defects in dynamic viscoelasticity
10:20 - 10:35 Break
10:35 - 11:15 Pilar Ariza
Spain
Dynamic Stability of Discrete Dislocations in Graphene at Finite Temperature
11:15 - 11:55 Claude Stolz
Ecole Polytechnique
Paris, France
Analytical solution of quasi-crack under anti-plane shear for hyper-elastic brittle materials