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Place: Room 115, MacMillan Hall, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI |
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Symposium Schedule Printable version here |
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5:00 pm—7:00 pm |
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Reception (Brown Faculty Club) |
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August 16, 2006, Wednesday |
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August 17, 2006, Thursday |
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8:50 am |
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Gathering |
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· Fracture and Friction Problems in Solids |
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Chair: John Bassani |
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James R. Rice & Nadia Lapusta: Fault rupture with strong dynamic weakening (25 min each) |
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9:00 am-9:50 am |
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John R. Willis: Crack front waves are dispersive Yehuda Ben-Zion: Dynamic rupture and energy partition in models of earthquake faults |
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9:50 am-10:40 am |
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Break (20 mins) |
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Rene de Borst: Simulation of fracture using cohesive segments Ted Belytschko: Applications of the extended finite element method to fracture and dislocations |
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11:00 am-11:50 am |
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Lunch |
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11:50 am-1:00 pm |
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· Mechanics of Small Length Scale Mechanisms |
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Chair: Lallit Anand |
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V. Deshpande/A. Benzerga: Size effects in discrete dislocation plasticity Christian Niordson: Size effects in plasticity – continuum versus discrete dislocation models |
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1:00 pm-1:50 pm |
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Subra Suresh: Single-protein contributions to cell mechanics and their consequences for human diseases Emily Carter: Origins of Failure in Thermal Barrier Coatings |
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1:50 pm-2:40 pm |
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Break (20 mins) |
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Yves Brechet: Microstructural scales and mechanical behavior: scale effect on work hardening Mort Gurtin: Gradient single-crystal plasticity with backstress due to Burgers-vector induced dislocation densities and dissipation due to slip rate gradients |
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3:00 pm-3:50 pm |
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· Panel Discussion I (Research and Education) |
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Chair: Lallit Anand |
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John Bassani(scale effect), Mike Baskes(atomistics), Kyung-Suk Kim(fracture at a small length scale), Nicolas Triantafyllidis(continuum), Allan Bower(scale effect in contact and friction) |
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3:50 pm-4:50 pm |
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Cocktail Hour |
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6:30 pm |
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Dinner Banquet (Brown Faculty Club) |
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7:00 pm-9:00 pm |
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August 18, 2006, Friday |
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8:50 am |
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Gathering |
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· Stability Problems in Solids and Structures |
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Chair: Frithiof I. Niordson |
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L. Ben Freund: A lower bound on receptor density for stable cell adhesion due to thermal undulations Joost Vlassak: Plastic deformation of free standing thin films: experiments and modeling |
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9:00 am-9:50 am |
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Stelios Kyriakides: Bending Instabilities of Tubes with Luders Bands Pradeep Guduru: Mechanics of wavy surface detachment |
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9:50 am-10:40 am |
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Break (20 mins) |
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K.D. Sorensen /Henrik Jensen: Effects of substrate curvature on buckling-driven delamination Ahmed Benallal: Rate-dependent instabilities |
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11:00 am-11:50 am |
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Lunch |
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11:50 am-1:00 pm |
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· Mechanics of Small Length Scale Structures |
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Chair: Robert M. McMeeking |
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John W. Hutchinson: Material aspects of dynamic neck retardation William A. Curtin: Headed toward the bottom: coupling atomistic dynamics to dislocation dynamics |
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1:00 pm-1:50 pm |
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Wole Soboyejo: Cold welding and pattern transfer in organic electronics Zhigang Suo: Mechanics of flexible electronics |
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1:50 pm-2:40 pm |
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Break (20 mins) |
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Huajian Gao: Multiscale cohesive laws and hierarchical energy dissipation in biological materials Yonggang Huang: A cohesive law for carbon naotube/polymer interfaces based on the van der Waals force |
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3:00 pm-3:50 pm |
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· Panel Discussion II (Research and Education) |
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Chair: Robert M. McMeeking |
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Frithiof I. Niordson(education), Paul Sorensen(computation), Erik Van der Giessen(structure/stability), Seh Chun Lim(education), Rodney J.Clifton(experiment) |
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3:50 pm-4:50 pm |
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Closing Lobster Dinner (Wharf Tavern) |
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6:30 pm-9:00 pm |
