The Micromechanics of Interfaces
An International Symposium in Honor of Professor Leon Keer
Symi, Greece
July 18-23, 2010

Chair:
Xanthippi Markenscoff
University of California
San Diego

Program

Monday, July 19, 2010

9:00 - 9:40
Leon Keer
A unified theory for modeling damage to real surfaces in
contact

9:40 - 10:20
Thomas Farris
Rutgers University
Micromechanics Analysis of Fretting Fatigue

10:20 - 11:00
Michael Santare
University of Delaware
Micromechanics of the adsorption and deformation of PFSA
membranes

11:00 - 11:15
Break

11:15 - 11:55
Julia R. Weertman
Northwestern University
Damage at the interface between nanotwinned and
de-nanotwinned regions in fatigued nanotwinned copper

11:55 - 12:35
Michele Ciavarella
Bari, Italy
On recent atomistic simulations of rough contact between
solids, and Greenwood and Williamson theories

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

9:00 - 9:40
Kyriakos Komvopoulos
UC Berkeley
Contact Electromechanics

9:40 - 10:20
Robert Goldstein
Moscow
Influence on the interface structure on adhesion fracture
resistance

10:20 - 11:00
J-B Leblond
U. Paris VI, French Academy of
Sciences
In-plane coalescence of cracks

11:00 - 11:15
Break

11:15 - 11:55
Jianmin Qu
Northwestern University
Micromechanics of interfaces

11:55 - 12:35
Huajian Gao
Brown University
Dislocation Shielding of a Cohesive Crack: Analytical Model
and Discrete Dislocation Studies

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

9:00 - 9:40
L.B. Freund
Brown University
The role of force in molecular bond breaking

9:40 - 10:20
Johannes Weertman
Northwestern University
Motion of dislocations at an interface

10:20 - 11:00
Xanthippi Markenscoff
UC San Diego
Driving forces on expanding/ shrinking strip Eshelby
inclusions and surface effects

 
Excursion
 

Thursday, July 22, 2010

9:00 - 9:40
Irina Goryacheva
Russian Academy of Sciences
Modeling of friction at macro- and microscales

9:40 - 10:20
Shaofan Li
UC Berkeley
Multiscale Simulations of Soft Contact and Adhesion of Stem
Cells

10:20 - 11:00
Michael Marder
U Texas, Austin
Supersonic Fractures in Tension

11:00 - 11:15
Break

11:15 - 11:55
Viggo Tvergaard
Technical University of
Denmark
A mechanism for ductile fracture in shear

11:55 - 12:35
Surendra Shah
Northwestern University
Manipulating Properties of Concrete Through Nanotechnology

Friday, July 23, 2010

9:00 - 9:40
Feodor Borodich
Cardiff, UK
Depth-sensing indentation and mechanics of adhesive contact

9:40 - 10:20
H.D. Bui
France, Academy of Sciences
Identification of planar crack and volumic defects in
dynamic viscoelasticity

10:20 - 11:00
Pilar Ariza
Spain
Dynamic Stability of Discrete Dislocations in Graphene at
Finite Temperature

11:00 - 11:15
Break

11:15 - 11:55
Cristian Dascalu
Grenoble, France
Two-scale modeling of granular media with fluid-filled
cohesive interfaces

11:55 - 12:35
Claude Stolz
Ecole Polytechnique
Paris,
France
Analytical solution of quasi-crack under anti-plane shear
for hyper-elastic brittle materials

Michele Ciavarella, Politecnico di BARI - Italy, Rector's delegate.
http://poliba.academia.edu/micheleciavarella
Editor, Italian Science Debate, www.sciencedebate.it
Associate Editor, Ferrari Millechili Journal, http://imechanica.org/node/7878