Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Shells & Snapping

Presentations

• Mechanics and Dynamics of a Snapping Arch

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 11:15 AM – Feb. 29, 2012, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Douglas Holmes

    • Virginia Tech
    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  • Matthieu Roch\'e

    • Princeton University

  • Tarun Sinha

    • Princeton University

  • Howard Stone

    • Mechanical \& Aerospace Engineering
    • Princeton University

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• Elastocapillary-driven snap-through instability

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 11:27 AM – Feb. 29, 2012, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Aurelie Fargette

    • Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, UPMC

  • Arnaud Antkowiak

    • Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, UPMC \& CNRS
    • Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, UPMC

  • Sebastien Neukirch

    • Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, UPMC

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• Fast Motion of Plants through mechanical instability: Mechanics without Muscles

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 11:39 AM – Feb. 29, 2012, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Qiaohang Guo

    • College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University; FuJian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China

  • Zi Chen

    • Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Huang Zheng

    • Fujian Radio and Television University, Fuzhou, China

  • Wenzhe Chen

    • Fuzhou University, FuJian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China

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• Strange instabilities of simple elastic structures

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 11:51 AM – Feb. 29, 2012, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Davide Bigoni

    • University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  • Diego Misseroni

    • University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  • Giovanni Noselli

    • Cambridge University, UK

  • Daniele Zaccaria

    • University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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• Materials with Tunable Behavior due to Constrained Instabilities: Performance and Stability Analysis

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 12:03 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Dennis Kochmann

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Walter J. Drugan

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• Snap-Through of Graphene: An Elasto-Capillary Perspective

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 12:15 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Till Wagner

    • DAMTP, University of Cambridge

  • Dominic Vella

    • OCCAM, University of Oxford

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• Electromechanical phase transition in dielectric elastomers under uniaxial tension and electrical voltage

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 12:27 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Rui Huang

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Zhigang Suo

    • Harvard University

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• Soft Dielectrics: Heterogeneity and Instabilities

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 12:39 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Stephan Rudykh

    • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  • Gal deBotton

    • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  • Kaushik Bhattacharya

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Modeling of dielectric elastomeric materials: theory, finite element simulation, and applications

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 12:51 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • David Henann

    • School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University

  • Katia Bertoldi

    • School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University

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• Giant linear voltage-induced deformation of a dielectric elastomer actuator

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 1:03 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Jian Zhu

    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

  • Matthias Kollosche

    • University of Potsdam, Germany

  • Guggi Kofod

    • University of Potsdam, Germany

  • Zhigang Suo

    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

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• Geometry-induced rigidity in pressurized elastic shells

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 1:15 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Pedro Reis

    • Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering \& Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Hendrik Florijn

    • MIT and Leiden University
    • Leiden University

  • Arnaud Lazarus

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• S-cones in thin shells under indentation

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 1:27 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Alice Nasto

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Amin Ajdari

    • Northeastern University

  • Arnaud Lazarus

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Ashkan Vaziri

    • Northeastern University

  • Pedro Reis

    • Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering \& Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Folding and buckling pathways in spherical shells with soft spots

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 1:39 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Jayson Paulose

    • Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA 02138

  • David R. Nelson

    • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
    • Harvard University
    • Department of Physics and FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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• Buckliballs: Buckling-Induced Pattern Transformation of Structured Elastic Shells

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 1:51 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Katia Bertoldi

    • SEAS, Harvard Univ
    • Harvard University
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

  • Jongmin Shim

    • SEAS, Harvard Univ

  • Claude J. Perdigou

    • MIT

  • Elizabeth R. Chen

    • University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

  • Pedro M. Reis

    • MIT

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• Wrinkling of a collapsing viscous bubble

  ORAL

  Feb. 29, 2012, 2:03 PM – Feb. 29, 2012, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • James Bird

    • Boston University

  • Howard Stone

    • Mechanical \& Aerospace Engineering
    • Princeton University

  • John Bush

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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