Focus Session: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials

Presentations

• Homogenized Mechanical Behavior of Cross-Linked Fiber Networks Embedded in Matrix

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 2:30 PM – March 19, 2013, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Catalin Picu

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Lijuan Zhang

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Ali Shahsavari

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Size Effects in the Mechanical Behavior of Sparsely Cross-Linked Fiber Networks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 2:42 PM – March 19, 2013, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ali Shahsavari

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Catalin Picu

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Role of Inhomogeneity in Mechanochemically Active Polymers

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 2:54 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Meredith Silberstein

    • Cornell University

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• Marginal Matter

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2013, 3:06 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Martin Van Hecke

    • Leiden University
    • Kamerlingh Onnes Lab, Universiteit Leiden

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• Capturing nonlocal effects in 2D granular flows

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:42 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Kenneth Kamrin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Georg Koval

    • INSA Strasbourgh

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• Predicting dense granular flows: continuum modeling with a length-scale

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:54 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • David Henann

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Ken Kamrin

    • MIT

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• Changes in fluctuation patterns of a granular hopper flow near jamming

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Michal Dichter

    • Brandeis University

  • Shubha Tewari

    • Western New England University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Brandeis University

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• Interplay between packing and flow in the shear zone at the wall of a granular hopper flow

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Brenda Carballo-Ramirez

    • Smith College, Northampton, MA

  • Maya Lewin-Berlin

    • Smith College, Northampton, MA

  • Nalini Easwar

    • Smith College, Northampton, MA

  • Narayanan Menon

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Physics Dept UMass, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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• Boundary layer model for intruder drag

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Stephan Koehler

    • Physics Dept., WPI

  • Jonathan Goldsmith

    • Physics Dept., WPI

  • Mingjiang Tao

    • Civil and Environmental Engineering, WPI

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• Rheology and migration in colloidal and noncolloidal suspensions

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Morris

    • Levich Institute, City College of New York

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• How to predict polydisperse hard-sphere mixture behavior using maximally equivalent tridisperse systems

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2013, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Vitaliy Ogarko

    • University of Twente

  • Stefan Luding

    • University of Twente

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• Finite element modeling of the dynamic effective mass of granular media

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2013, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • John Valenza

    • Schlumberger-Doll Research

  • David Henann

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Kenneth Kamrin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • David Johnson

    • Schlumberger-Doll Research

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• A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2013, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Chen Li

    • UC Berkeley

  • Tingnan Zhang

    • Georgia Tech

  • Daniel Goldman

    • Georgia Tech
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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