Seminar Schedule – Archived
Summer 2018
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Adrian Buganza, Purdue University
“Skin mechanics and mechanobiology across scales”
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Hari Arora, Swansea University
“Measuring and Modelling the Dynamic Behaviour of Structural and Biological Materials “
Spring 2018
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University
“TBD”
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Michael S. Sacks, The University of Texas at Austin
“Modeling and Simulation of Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Biomaterials”
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Hanchen Huang, Northeastern University
“Nanorods: from Synthesis Science to Metallic Glue Technology”
Friday, February 16, 2018
Pedro Ponte Castañeda, University of Pennsylvania
“Finite-Strain Homogenization Models For Porous Viscoplastic Polycrystals”
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Jian Zhu, National University of Singapore
“Soft Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators”
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Philippe H. Guebelle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Multifunctional Microvascular Composites: Computational Analysis and Design”
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Jeffrey T. Lloyd, Research Scientist, US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen
“Process-sensitive modeling of failure in magnesium alloys”
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Irene Beyerlein, University of California Santa Barbara
“Microstructure-based modeling of interface-facilitated mechanisms in structural materials”
Thursday, April 17, 2018
Peng Wang, Univeristy of Texas at Austin
“Theoretical And Numerical Study On Adhesive Interactions Between Graphene And Substrate”
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Michael A. Cullinan, University of Texas at Austin
“Engineering Mechanics Challenges in Micro and Nanomanufacturing Applications”
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Shutao Qiao, University of Texas at Austin
“Fluid-Induced Large Deformation at Soft Material Interfaces with Blisters and Craters”
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Shailendra P. Joshi, University of Houston
“On Migrating Twins and Growing Voids in Crystalline Plasticity”
Fall 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Justin W. Wilkerson, University of Texas at Austin
“High-fidelity and reduced-order models for materials in extreme environments”
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
“Double Well Potentials and Nonlocal Brittle Fracture Modeling”
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology
“The evolution of acoustic metamaterials, from static to dynamic designs”
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Raj K. Mishra, General Motors R&D
“Integrated Computational and Experimental Materials Engineering (ICEME) For Mass Efficient Vehicle Structures”
Friday, November 10, 2017
Kostas Danas, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
“Tailoring Instabilities in Microstructured Magnetorheological Elastomers: Experiments, Numerical Analysis and Theory”