Symposium D-6: Advanced Instrumentation and Fabrication Techniques for the Measurement of Mechanical and Physical Properties of Solids and Structures

(Mechanics of Solids and Structures)

Symposium Organizers:

Joost Vlassak, Harvard University
vlassak@seas.harvard.edu

Chris Eberl, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials
chris.eberl@iwm.fraunhofer.de

Samantha Daly, University of Michigan
samdaly@umich.edu

Gi-Dong Sim, Johns Hopkins University
gdsim@jhu.edu

Symposium Technical Description

Decreasing dimensions of microelectronic and micromechanical devices have motivated research on the mechanical and physical properties of materials at micro- and nano-scales. However, it is difficult to precisely measure the properties of small-scale materials with conventional apparatus used for bulk materials. In addition, probing micro- and nano-samples is challenging due to the inherent difficulties associated with the fabrication and handling of extremely small specimens. Therefore, new experimental methods with enhanced characterization capabilities are required to better understand the properties and deformation mechanisms of technologically relevant materials. The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) program also call for the development of creative and high throughput experimental methodologies to serve as a benchmark for computational simulations.

This symposium will focus on sharing new instrumentation and fabrication techniques to measure properties of materials/structures at different length scales, loading, and environment conditions. Topics in this symposium will include but are not limited to the: (a) design and manufacture of custom loading frames; (b) advanced fabrication of sensors and actuators to measure mechanical and physical properties of materials; (c) mechanical and physical properties of small-scale materials in extreme environments; and (d) reliability studies of applied materials embedded in complex structures.

We anticipate the speakers to convey new ideas and to interact with the audience by sharing experiences in overcoming the technical challenges in their research.

 Technical Program

Tuesday | T2 1:00pm-2:40pm

D6-1:   Advanced Instrumentation and Fabrication Techniques for the Measurement of Mechanical and Physical Properties of Solids and Structures
Room 2110 Session Chair:   Joost Vlassak, Chris Eberl, Samantha Daly, Gi-Dong Sim Track D:  Mechanics of Solids and Structures
1:00 pm Micro fatigue and tensile tests provide the damage behavior for simulation models at microstructural resolution (Invited)

Tobias Kennerknecht, Sascha Fliegener, Thomas Straub, Chris Eberl

1:20 pm Characterization of the mechanical behavior of freestanding ultra thin films (Invited)

Gayatri K. Cuddalorepatta, Katia Bertoldi, Han Li, Daniel Pantuso, Joost J. Vlassak

1:40 pm In-situ multi-domain characterization of nanoscale materials (Invited)

Baoming Wang, Aman Haque

2:00 pm In-situ nanocompression of solution-grown crystalline superelastic materials: ThCr2Si2-structured novel intermetallic compounds 

Keith J. Dusoe, John T. Sypek, Paul C. Canfield, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee

2:20 pm In-situ instrumentation and microfabrication for mechanical testing of thin films at elevated temperature

Gi-Dong Sim, Joost J. Vlassak

Tuesday | T3 3:00pm-4:40pm

D6-2:   Advanced Instrumentation and Fabrication Techniques for the Measurement of Mechanical and Physical Properties of Solids and Structures
Room 2110 Session Chair:   Joost Vlassak, Chris Eberl, Samantha Daly, Gi-Dong Sim Track D:  Mechanics of Solids and Structures
3:00 pm Characterization of non-arrhenius diffusion in Cu-Zr metallic glass thin films using nanocalorimetry (Invited)

Joost J. Vlassak

3:20 pm Measurements of local, atomic level elastic strain in metallic glass thin films using in situ electron diffraction (Invited)

Sarkar, C. Ebner, E. Izadi, C.Rentenberger, J. Rajagopalan

3:40 pm A New in situ planar biaxial far-field high energy diffraction microscopy experiment (Invited)

Garrison Michael Hommer, Jun-Sang Park, Peter Chancellor Collins, Adam L Pilchalk, Aaron Paul Stebner

4:00 pm Resolving the distribution of local mechanical properties across polymer nanocomposite interphases via novel AFM-based indentation experiments (Invited)

Pavan V Kolluru, David W Collinson, Min Zhang, L Catherine Brinson

4:20 pm Photon doppler velocimetry in plate impact experiments (Invited)

Debjoy Mallick, Meng Zhao, Brian Schuster, Daniel Casem, KT Ramesh

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