Event of ASME Technical Committee on Mechanics of Soft Materials 2020

Session 1: Understanding elastomer networks

Chair: Qiming Wang, Yuhang Hu

Time: 12-2:20 pm EST, Nov 15 2020

12-12:40

Invited keynote speaker: Sanjay Govindjee (UC Berkeley)

Title: Soft and Semi-Soft Elasticity for Liquid Crystal Elastomers: An Overview

12:40-1

Shaoting Lin (MIT)

Title: Universal Fracture of Polymer Networks with Topological Defects

1-1:20

Nikolaos Bouklas (Cornell)

Title: Damage and fracture in polydisperse elastomer networks

1:20-1:40

Qiming Wang (USC)

Title: Mechanics of Self-Healing Thermoplastic Elastomers

1:40-2

Pratik Khandagale (CMU)

Title: Statistical Field Theory Model for Elastomers

2-2:20

Pedro Peralta (ASU)

Title: Effects of High Pressure on Structural Evolution of Polyurea: An In-Situ Energy Dispersive X-Ray Diffraction Study

Session 2: Stimuli-responsive soft materials

Chair: Sung Hoon Kang, Victor Lefevre

Time: 2:30-4:50 pm EST, Nov 15 2020

2:30-3:10

Invited keynote speaker: Shengqiang Cai (UCSD)

Title: Mechanics of Liquid Crystal Elastomer

3:10-3:30

Sung Hoon Kang (JHU)

Title: Strain Rate-Adaptive Extreme Energy Absorption via Architected Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

3:30-3:50

Christopher Cooley (Oakland)

Title: Nonlinear Dynamics of a Dielectric Elastomer Membrane Under Compressive Loading

3:50-4:10

Victor Lefevre (Northwestern)

Title: Electroelastic Response of Isotropic Dielectric Elastomer Composites with Deformation-Dependent Apparent-Permittivity Matrix

4:10-4:30

Kiana Naghibzadeh (CMU)

Title: Modeling of Surface Growth Using an Eulerian Approach

4:30-4:50

Dongjing He (Gatech)

Title: Rate-Dependent Indentation Adhesion of Hydrogel

Session 3: Committee meeting for ASME Technical Committee on Mechanics of Soft Materials

Chair: Qiming Wang, Victor Lefevre, Yuhang Hu

Time: 5-6 pm EST, Nov 15 2020

Topics:

1.    Topics of ASME IMECE 2021 symposium on mechanics of soft materials (MOSM)

2.    Nomination for the new Editor for ASME Technical Committee on MOSM