Seminar Schedule – Archived
Summer 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
SungWoo Nam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Mechanical Instability-driven Architecturing of Atomically-thin Materials”
Friday, May 31, 2019
Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Nanoscale Polymer Contacts under Normal and Shear Forces”
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Josué Aranda Ruiz, Univeristy of Carlos III, Madrid
“On the Double Transition in the Failure Mode of Polycarbonate”
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Meinhard Kuna, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
“Micromechanical Simulation of Brittle and Ductile Fracture Processes in Metals to Predict Their Fracture Toughness”
Spring 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
Petr Sittner, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
“3D-XRD Study of Martensite Band Front in Superelastic NiTi Wire”
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Sameh Tawfick, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Twists and Ripples: Self-Organization of 1- and 2D Structures into New Multi-Functional Materials”
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
James M. Caruthers, Purdue University
“Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Glasses”
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Ghatu Subhash, University of Florida
“Pressure-induced amorphization in ultrahard ceramics: A thermodynamics-based theory for boron-rich icosahedral ceramics”
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Tal Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Mechanics of Squishy Things that can Grow”
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Christelle Combescure, Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée
“Post-bifurcation of highly symmetric systems : challenges and methods”
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Ill Ryu, University of Texas at Dallas
“Probing defect-controlled plasticity at small scale via multiscale discrete defect element method (DDEM)”
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Filippo Mangolini, University of Texas at Austin
“Fundamental Studies of Tribological Phenomena in Complex Engineered Systems: from Laboratory Equipment to the International Space Station”
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Liu Wang, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Defense: “Mechanics of Crater-enabled Dry Adhesives”
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Basant Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
“Wave Propagation in Lattices and Structured Media”
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Pierre Margerit, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
“Wide-band Characterization of the Linear Dynamic Behavior of Heterogeneous Anisotropic Viscoelastic Structures. Application to the Piano Soundboard”
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Yalin Yu, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Defense: “Theoretical and Numerical Study on Fracture Behavior of Hydrogels”
Fall 2018
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Kejie Zhao, Purdue University
“Bridging mechanics and electrochemistry: Experiments and modeling on battery materials”