Seminar Schedule – Archived
Spring 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University
“Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics”
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Graeme Milton, University of Utah
“Elastic Metamaterials”
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Richard D. James, University of Minnesota
“Compatibility, hysteresis and the direct conversion of heat to electricity”
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Seung Na, University of Texas at Austin
“Molecular Level Interactions of Large Area 2D-Materials”
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Andy Kraynik, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg
“The effect of microstructure on the stiffness of random open-cell foams”
Thursday, March 5, 2015**
Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France)
“Folded elastic structures : from crumpled paper to origami”
Monday, March 23, 2015
Samit Roy, University of Alabama
“Multi-Scale Modeling of Fracture Properties for Nano-graphene Reinforced Thermoset Polymers using the Atomistic J-Integral”
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Justin W. Wilkerson, University of Texas at San Antonio
“Multiscale Mechanics of Failure in Extreme Environments”
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Hongbing Lu, University of Texas at Dallas
“Mechanics of Multifunctional Ductile Aerogels”
Thursday, April 2, 2015**
David Steigmann, University of California, Berkeley
“Mechanics of solids reinforced by fibers with elastic resistance to flexure and twist: An application of Cosserat elasticity theory”
Monday, April 13, 2015
Ajit Yoganathan, Georgia Tech
“Image-Based Surgical Planning for Single Ventricle Heart Defects”
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Emmanuel Detournay, University of Minnesota
“Spiraled Boreholes: An Expression of 3D Directional Instability of Drilling Systems”
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Zhiyi Cao, University of Texas at Austin
“Mixed-mode Interactions between Graphene and Substrates by Blister Tests”(PhD Dissertation Defense)
Monday, May 4, 2015
John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University
“Structural Stability at Large and Small Scales: Shells and Soft Materials”
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology
“Materials by Design: 3-Dimensional Architected Nanostructured Meta-Materials”
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Yuan Lin, University of Texas
“On the Liner Wrinkling and Collapse of Bi-material Pipe under Bending and Axial Compression”
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Anand Jagota, Lehigh University
“Influence of Surface Tension on Deformation of Compliant Solids”