Symposium Organizers:
Yuhang Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
yuhanghu@illinois.edu
Shengqiang Cai, University of California, San Diego
shqcai@ucsd.edu
(Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials)
Symposium Technical Description
Soft materials are ubiquitous in nature, from biopolymers, cells, and tissues to organs. In recent years, soft materials have been intensively explored in different engineering applications, ranging from haptic devices to soft robotics, from flexible electronics to biomimetic systems. Fundamental studies of the deformation mechanisms of soft materials and optimal designs in different applications urgently need robust methods for material characterization. In this program, the co-organizers plan to invite both theoretical and experimental studies on mechanical properties of soft materials such as gels, elastomers and biological materials. We appreciate novel techniques that are applied to study the microstructures and macroscopic behaviors of soft materials, new devices for imaging, processing and measurement, and theoretical and computational models inspiring new ways of material characterizations. We aim to sharing and advancing our knowledge and technology in this area.
Technical Program
Monday | M1 10:00am-11:40am
| C3-1: Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials: Experiments and Modeling | ||
| Room 2116 | Session Chair: Yuhang Hu, Shengqiang Cai | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 10:00 am | Characterization of interphase mechanical behavior in polymer nanocomposites and implications for material design (Invited)
Catherine Brinson, Pavan Kolluru, Min Zhang, David Collinson, Matt Eaton |
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| 10:40 am | Using analytical modeling to design customized fiber-reinforced soft actuators
Fionnuala Connolly |
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| 11:00 am | Exploring the confinement effect on local mechanical properties of polymers in thin film systems.
Min Zhang, Shadid Askar, John M. Torkelson, L. Catherine Brinson |
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| 11:20 am | Role of the network architecture and fiber contacts in defining the mechanical behaviour of fiber-based materials
Catalin Picu, Mohammad Islam, Sai Deogekar |
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Monday | M2 13:00pm-14:40pm
| C3-2: Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials: Experiments and Modeling | ||
| Room 2116 | Session Chair: Yuhang Hu, Shengqiang Cai | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 13:00 pm | Modeling and simulating fatigue in bioprosthetic heart valves: permanent set as a first step
Will Zhang |
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| 13:20 pm | Puncture of osteoarthritic human articular cartilage for assessment of local fracture toughness
Shengqiang Cai |
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| 13:40 pm | Mechanical characterization of polymeric gels
Nikola Bosnjak, Shawn A. Chester |
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| 14:00 pm | Dynamic indentation to characterize the poroelasticity of gels
Yuhang Hu |
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| 14:20 pm | Mechanics of polymer networks with sacrificial bonds and hidden length
Ahmed Elbanna, Yuhang Hu, Konik Kothari |
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Monday | M3 15:00pm-16:40pm
| C3-3: Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials: Experiments and Modeling | ||
| Room 2116 | Session Chair: Yuhang Hu, Shengqiang Cai | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 15:00 pm | Novel analytic methods for measuring viscoelastic properties of compliant polymers via impact indentation
Aleksandar S. Mijailovic, Bo Qing, Krystyn J Van Vliet |
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| 15:20 pm | Characterizing the impact energy dissipation response of brain tissues and polymer gels via impact indentation
Bo Qing, Krystyn J. Van Vliet |
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| 15:40 pm | The ‘sixth sense’ of ultrasound: probing nonlinear elasticity with acoustic radiation force
Bojan Guzina |
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| 16:00 pm | Novel experiments to elucidate the coupling between time and length scales on the large deformation behavior of polystyrene nanofibers
Pavan V Kolluru, Ioannis Chasiotis |
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| 16:20 pm | Vesicle adhesion reveals novel universal relationships for biophysical characterization
Ehsan Irajizad, Ashutosh Agrawal |
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Tuesday | T1 10:00am-11:40am
| C3-4: Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials: Experiments and Modeling | ||
| Room 2116 | Session Chair: Yuhang Hu, Shengqiang Cai | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 10:00 am | The two-potential constitutive framework for finite viscoelasticity: theoretical aspects and application to elastomers (Invited)
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Aditya Kumar |
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| 10:40 am | A nonlinear viscoelastic model based on multiple natural configuration theory
Anastasia Muliana, Daniel Tscharnuter, KR Rajagopal |
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| 11:00 am | Characterization and modeling of time and temperature dependent polyethylene films
Jun Li, Kawai Kwok, Sergio Pellegrino |
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| 11:20 am | Correlating free volume distribution to glass transition temperature in epoxy polymers: a coarse-grained molecular dynamics study
Amin Aramoon |
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