Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation III

Presentations

• A general theory of mechanical instabilities in soft solids

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 11:15 AM – March 24, 2011, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Evan Hohlfeld

    • Department of Physics, Harvard University and Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL

  • L. Mahadevan

    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Harvard University
    • Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Nanobio Science and Technology, Harvard University

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• Elastocapillary imbibition

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 11:27 AM – March 24, 2011, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Camille Duprat

    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

  • Jeffrey Aristoff

    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

  • Howard Stone

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

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• Buckling of swelling gels under constraints

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 11:39 AM – March 24, 2011, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Howon Lee

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Jiaping Zhang

    • Arizona State University

  • Yonghao An

    • Arizona State University

  • Hanqing Jiang

    • Arizona State University

  • Nicholas Fang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Optimal control of growing sheets

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 11:51 AM – March 24, 2011, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Gareth Jones

    • Harvard University

  • L. Mahadevan

    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Harvard University
    • Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Nanobio Science and Technology, Harvard University

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• Decoupling thermal, chemical, and mechanical strain components in thin films

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 12:03 PM – March 24, 2011, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Meredith Silberstein

    • MIT Mechanical Engineering

  • Ethan Crumlin

    • MIT Mechanical Engineering

  • Yang Shao-Horn

    • MIT Mechanical Engineering

  • Mary Boyce

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • MIT Mechanical Engineering

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• Plane deformations generating a prescribed finite rotation field

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 12:15 PM – March 24, 2011, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Gregory Rizza

    • Brown University

  • Janet Blume

    • Brown University

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• Mechanics of Suture Joints

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 12:27 PM – March 24, 2011, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Yaning Li

    • MIT

  • Juha Song

    • MIT

  • Christine Ortiz

    • MIT

  • Mary Boyce

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • MIT Mechanical Engineering

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• Mechanical and thermal stability of adhesive membranes with nonzero bending rigidity

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 12:39 PM – March 24, 2011, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Tuomas Tallinen

    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Harvard University / University of Jyvaskyla

  • Jan Astrom

    • CSC - The Finnish IT Center for Science

  • Pekka Kekalainen

    • University of Jyvaskyla

  • Jussi Timonen

    • University of Jyvaskyla

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• Universal Shapes formed by Interacting Cracks

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 12:51 PM – March 24, 2011, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Melissa Fender

    • North Carolina State University

  • Frederic Lechenault

    • University of Montpellier

  • Karen Daniels

    • North Carolina State University

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• Pericyte Actomyosin-Mediated Contraction at the Cell-Material Interface can Modulate the Microvascular Niche

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 1:03 PM – March 24, 2011, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Adam Zeiger

    • MIT

  • Maciej Kotecki

    • Tufts University

  • John Maloney

    • MIT

  • Ira Herman

    • Tufts University

  • Krystyn Van Vliet

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    • MIT

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• Extraordinary Elasticity of the Distorted Kagome Lattice

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 1:15 PM – March 24, 2011, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Anton Souslov

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Kai Sun

    • University of Maryland
    • Joint Quantum Institute and Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
    • JQI and CMTC, University Of Maryland

  • Xiaoming Mao

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Tom Lubensky

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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• Suppression of Viscous Fingers in Miscible Hele-Shaw Flow

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 1:27 PM – March 24, 2011, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Radha Ramachandran

    • University of Chicago

  • Justin Burton

    • University of Chicago

  • Sidney Nagel

    • University of Chicago
    • James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago

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• Patterns on thin sheets: buckling, wrinkling, crumpling, folding

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 1:39 PM – March 24, 2011, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Benny Davidovitch

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts
    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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• Mechanics and chemical thermodynamics of a temperature-sensitive hydrogel

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 1:51 PM – March 24, 2011, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Shengqiang Cai

    • Harvard University

  • Zhigang Suo

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• Mechanics of Curved Folds

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 2:03 PM – March 24, 2011, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Marcelo A. Dias

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Christian Santangelo

    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, 01003
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Department of Physics, UMass-Amherst

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