Focus Session: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials

Presentations

• Failure of a loose packing of grains

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 8:00 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Greg Farrell

    • UMass-Amherst

  • Narayanan Menon

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • UMass-Amherst

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• Jamming in Hopper Flows: Analysis of Survival Times

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 8:12 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Michal Dichter

    • Brandeis University

  • Shubha Tewari

    • Western New England University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University
    • Brandeis University

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• Experimental analysis on how grain properties affect the performance of jammed granular systems for variable stiffness robotic applications

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 8:24 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Nadia Cheng

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Karl Iagnemma

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Anette Hosoi

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Katy Gero

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Shear-Transformation-Zone Theory of Glassy Diffusion, Stretched Exponentials, and the Stokes-Einstein Relation

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 28, 2012, 8:36 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • James Langer

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• A granular flow law based on nonlocal fluidity

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:12 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ken Kamrin

    • MIT

  • Georg Koval

    • INSA Strasbourg

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• Rheology of discontinuously shear thickening suspensions beyond simple shear

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:24 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Pawel Zimoch

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gareth McKinley

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Anette Hosoi

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Activated processes in a stress landscape: a rheological model for dense driven granular materials

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:36 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University
    • Brandeis University

  • Dapeng Bi

    • Brandeis University

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• Shear-transformation-zone theory of plasticity in hard-sphere materials

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:48 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Charles K.C. Lieou

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • James Langer

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Ahmed E. Elbanna

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jean M. Carlson

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Width of Shear Zones in Gravity-Driven Granular Flows

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:00 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Shubha Tewari

    • Western New England University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University
    • Brandeis University

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• From streamline jumping to strange eigenmodes: Learning from simple continuum models of granular mixing

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:12 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ivan C. Christov

    • Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University

  • Julio M. Ottino

    • Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University

  • Richard M. Lueptow

    • Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University

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• From liquid to stone: a polydispersive colloidal model for cement setting

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:24 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Enrico Masoero

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Roland Pellenq

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Franz-Josef Ulm

    • Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Sidney Yip

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Emanuela Del Gado

    • ETH Zurich

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• Effect of randomness on wave propagation in granular systems

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:36 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Mohith Manjunath

    • Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Amnaya P. Awasthi

    • Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Philippe H. Geubelle

    • Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Continuum Representation of the Mechanics of Random Fiber Networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:48 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Ali Shahsavari

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Catalin Picu

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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