International Symposium on
Current Problems in Solid Mechanics

in honor of

Professor R. J. Clifton
Brown University

Chair:
Xanthippi Markenscoff
University of California, San Diego

Abstracts

Presentations

Conference Materials

Symi Symposium Photos

Symi, Greece
June 24 - 29, 2012

Program

Sunday, June 24, 2012
Arrival at conference site and get together.
Monday, July 19, 2010
9:00 - 9:40am	Rodney J. Clifton (Brown University) "What does Solid Mechanics Want to Know?"
9:40 - 10:20am	Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University) "Multiscale Design of Hierarchical Materials"
10:20 - 11:00am	Vivek Shenoy (Brown University) "Nanomechanics in the Flatland: Application to Graphene and its Derivatives"
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 11:55am	Michael Marder (University of Texas, Austin) "Rippling and Fracture of Graphene"
11:55 - 12:35pm	Robert Asaro (University of California, San Diego) "Are Nanotwinned FCC Structures Optimal for Strength, Ductility, and Stability?"
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
9:00 - 9:40am	L.B. Freund (University of Illinois, Urbana) "Progress on Estimating Pressures Induced by Confinement of Thermal Fluctuations"
9:40 - 10:20am	Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San Diego) "Singular Stress Amplification in Thin Ligaments: From the Micro- to the Macro-Scale in Asymptotic Homogenization"
10:20 - 11:00am	Michael Ortiz (California Institute of Technology) "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Multiscale Modeling of Dynamic Void Growth in Crystals"
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 11:55am	Kyung-Suk Kim (Brown University) "Dynamic Behavior of Materials at the Nanometer Scale"
11:55 - 12:35pm	Gennady Kanel (Inst. High Temp., Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow) "Strain Rate, Temperature and Structure Effects on the Flow and Fracture Stresses of Metals and Alloys under Shock-Wave Loading"
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
9:00 - 9:40am	James Rice (Harvard University) "Materials Physics of Faults in Rapid Shear and Consequences for Earthquake Dynamics"
9:40 - 10:20am	Richard James (University of Minnesota) "An Invariant Manifold of the Equations of Molecular Dynamics and the Pressure-Shear Plate Impact Experiment"
10:20 - 11:00am	Claude Stolz (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France) "Propagation of a Shock Discontinuity in an Elastoplastic Material: Constitutive Relations"
11:00 - 11:40am	Celia Reina Romo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) "Computational Homogenization under Dynamic Conditions: A Variational Approach"
12:00pm	Excursion
Thursday, June 28, 2012
9:00 - 9:40am	Robert McMeeking (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Adhesion of Eukaryotic Cells and the Influence of Cytoskeletal Contractility"
9:40 - 10:20am	Guruswami Ravichandran (California Institute of Technology) "Peeling of Heterogeneous Adhesives"
10:20 - 11:00am	Haneesh Kesari (Brown University) "Micromechanics of Surfaces: Role of Surface Roughness in Hysteresis during Adhesive Elastic Contact"
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 11:55am	Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) "Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics"
11:55 - 12:35pm	Shenqiang Cai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Mechanical Instabilities in Soft Materials"
Friday, June 29, 2012
8:45 - 9:25am	Pradeep Guduru (Brown University) "On the Role of Mechanics in the Design and Performance of Energy Storage Materials"
9:25 - 10:05am	Jianmin Qu (Northwestern University) "A Coupled Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Framework for Diffusion and Deformation in Solids"
10:05 - 10:40am	Katerina Papoulia (University of Waterloo, Canada) "Cohesive Fracture: Robustness Issues and Algorithms"
10:40 - 11:15am	Amos Gilat (Ohio State University) "Development of Deformation and Failure Model (MAT 224) in the LS-DYNA Finite Element Program"
11:15 - 11:50am	Marc Meyers (University of California, San Diego) "Metal Plasitcity and Failure under Extreme Loading"
11:50 - 12:00pm	Break
12:00 - 12:45pm	Panel: R.J. Clifton, L.B. Freund, Huajian Gao, Michael Ortiz "What has Solid Mechanics Learned?"