Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation IV

Presentations

• Harnessing Instabilities in Polymers under Electric Fields

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 24, 2011, 2:30 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Xuanhe Zhao

    • Duke University

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• Ultrasoft Electronics for Hyperelastic Strain, Pressure, and Direct Curvature Sensing

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:06 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Carmel Majidi

    • Harvard University

  • Rebecca Kramer

    • Harvard University

  • Robert Wood

    • Harvard University

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 24, 2011, 3:18 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:30 PM

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• Tensile shock waves in rubber

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:30 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar

    • University of Texas

  • Johnathan Niemczura

    • Army Research Laboratory

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• Kinetic features of pattern transformation and recovery in periodic hydrogel membranes

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:42 PM – March 24, 2011, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Xuelian Zhu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Rong Dong

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Ji Feng

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Chi-Mon Chen

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Shu Yang

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Cavitation in elastomeric solids: A defect-growth theory

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 3:54 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Oscar Lopez-Pamies

    • State University of New York at Stony Brook

  • Martin Idiart

  • Toshio Nakamura

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• The aerodynamics of jumping rope

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:06 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • 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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• Helical Root Buckling: A Transient Mechanism for Stiff Interface Penetration

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:18 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Jesse Silverberg

    • Department of Physics, Cornell University

  • Roslyn Noar

    • UNCSU, Dept of Plant Pathology

  • Michael Packer

    • Department of Physics, Cornell University

  • Maria Harrison

    • Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Department of Physics, Cornell University
    • Dept. of Physics, Cornell University

  • Chris Henley

    • Department of Physics, Cornell University
    • Cornell University

  • Sharon Gerbode

    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

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• Increasing Digging Efficiency Using Two Biologically-Inspired Techniques

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:30 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Dawn Wendell

    • MIT

  • Peko Hosoi

    • MIT

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• Pattern switches in granular crystals

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:42 PM – March 24, 2011, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Katia Bertoldi

    • Harvard university
    • Harvard University

  • Jongmin Shim

    • Harvard University

  • Fatih Goncu

    • University of Twente

  • Stephen Willshaw

    • University of Manchester

  • Tom Mullin

    • University of Manchester

  • Stefan Luding

    • University of Twente

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• Evidence for a mechanical instability, via folding, of the vein network in leaves

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 4:54 PM – March 24, 2011, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Pilnam Kim

    • Princeton University

  • Manouk Abkarian

    • Universite Montpellier 2 / CNRS

  • Howard Stone

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

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• Minimal resonances in annular non-Euclidean strips

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 5:06 PM – March 24, 2011, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Bryan Gin-ge Chen

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

  • 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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• Deflation of elastic surfaces

  ORAL

  March 24, 2011, 5:18 PM – March 24, 2011, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Catherine Quilliet

    • Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics (ex ``Spectro'')

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