Seminar Schedule – Archived

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Spring 2017

Thursday, February 23, 2017
Shengqiang Cai, University of California, San Diego
“Active Deformation and Instabilities in Soft Materials”

Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology
“Plant nanobionic materials for thermally active, structural woods and soft, artificial skins”

Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Michael Strobl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
“Phase field models and their ability to simulate Hertzian indentation fracture”

Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Jose A. Rodriguez-Martinez, University of Carlos III Madrid, Spain
“A general overview on multiple necking and fragmentation problems in ductile solids subjected to high strain rates”

Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Nicolas Moes, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
“The Thick Level Set (TLS) damage model for quasi-brittle fracture: an overview”

Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Andy Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories (retired)
“From Honeycombs to Random Foams: the elastic-plastic behavior of soap froth from the cells’ point of view”

Thursday, March 30, 2017
V. Lazarus, Univ Paris-Sud/CNRS, France
“Complex crack patterns in brittle fracture mechanics”

Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Glaucio Paulino – Georgia Tech
“Origami engineering: from deployable structures to configurational metamaterials”

Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Mazen Diab – UT Austin
“Ruga Mechanics of Soft Materials”

Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Siegfried Bauer – Johannes-Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria
“A soft future: From sensor skin and robots to energy harvesters”

Thursday, May 4, 2017
Meredith Silberstein – Cornell University
“Mechanics and Chemistry in Designing Polymers”