Short talks, or teaser talks, are designed to be quick and engaging. They are no longer than 3 minutes each. Below are the anticpated talks for New.Mech 2018.
Short Talks Session A (11:00-11:40)
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| David Melancon, Harvard | Inflatable origami-inspired structures |
| Lucia Stein-Montalvo, Boston University | Buckling of geometrically confined thick shells |
| Mrityunjay Kothari, Brown | Curvature localization in graphene |
| Simos Gerasimidis, UMass Amherst | On establishing buckling knockdowns for imperfection-sensitive shell structures |
| Emilio Lozano, Harvard | Openings: a geometric imperfection view in the context of cylindrical shell buckling |
| Chao Chen, UMass Amherst | Bio-inspired hierarchical wrinkles on multi-layered thin films |
| Insun Yoon, Brown | Elastic buckling-based measurements of the plane strain modulus of ultra-thin, rough, possibly porous films |
| Shabnam Raayai, MIT | Volume-controlled cavity expansion for probing of local elastic properties in soft materials |
| Arshad Kudrolli, Clark | Order and disorder in twisted slender structures |
| Emmanuel Virot, Harvard | Experimental study probing an axially compressed cylinder with or without end-rotation constraint |
| Hongyan Yuan, URI | Computational mechanics modeling of continuum soft robots |
| Wenqiang Fang, Brown | Role of small scale geometric heterogeneity on effective interfacial toughness |
| Jiawei Yang, Harvard | Molecular stitching |
Short Talks Session B (2:00-2:40)
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Jun Li, UMass Dartmouth | 3D printed polymers for enhanced fracture properties |
| Yoonho Kim, MIT | Untethered soft machines and robots by printing ferromagnetic domains in soft materials |
| Andrew Gross, Harvard | Additive manufacturing of nano-structures that are delicate, complex, and smaller than ever |
| Md Fazlay Rabbi, UMass Dartmouth | Effect of surface pattern on the dynamic fracture toughness of the 3D printed materials |
| Mohammad Islam, RPI | Mechanics of soft networks with encapsulated inclusions |
| Lifeng Wang, SUNY Stony Brook | Enhancing mechanical performance in auxetic composite materials |
| Shengguang Jin, UNH | Shear resistance of an auxetic chiral mechanical metamaterial |
| Michael Jandron, Brown | Electroelastic wave propagation in dielectric elastomer composites |
| Mo Eydani, Boston University | Elastogranular Composite Jammed Structures |
| Panos Pantidis, UMass Amherst | On the correlation between topology and elastic properties of imperfect architected materials |
| Max Monn, Brown | Insights into the mechanics of biological composites: overcoming the toughness hype |
| Jacob Merson, RPI | Multiscale modeling framework with application to the facet capsule ligament |
| Bahador Marzban, URI | A contraction-reaction-diffusion model for mechanosensing in cell motility |
Short Talks Session C (3:20-4:00)
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Katharine Jensen, Williams | Singularity dynamics in soft adhesive detachment |
| Weilin Deng, Brown | Surface roughness dependent adhesion: Finite element modeling and analysis |
| Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University | Bifurcation-enhanced ultrahigh sensitivity of a buckled cantilever |
| Aaron Baumgarten, MIT | A general fluid-sediment mixture model and constitutive theory validated in many flow regimes |
| Kareem Abdelshafy, Northeastern | Mesoscale modeling of the cyclic loading in amorphous materials |
| Juner Zhu, MIT | Plasticity and fracture of granular/metal multi-layer structures with particular application to lithium-ion pouch batteries |
| Madhav Baral, UNH | Ductile fracture behavior of anisotropic AA6111-T4 aluminum sheet |
| Pinkesh Malhotra, Brown | High speed microscopic imaging of initiation and propagation of adiabatic shear bands |
| Carlos Javier, URI | Underwater blast response of carbon-fiber/epoxy composite plates |
| Shyamal Kishore, URI | Dynamic underwater response of a composite cylinder to proximal implosion |
| Shaghayegh Rezazadeh Kalehbasti, Brown | Real-time monitoring of phase boundary propagation in electrode materials through picosecond ultrasonics |
| Konane Bay, UMass Amherst | Quantifying the mechanical properties of ultra-thin glassy polymer film |
| Shikui Chen, SUNY Stony Brook | Topology optimization of conformal structures on manifolds using extended level set methods (X-LSM) and conformal geometry theory |