Dear Mechanicians,
I would like to draw your attention to the Focus Session **Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation** that will take place at the upcoming March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Dallas, TX (March 21-25, 2011).
Each of the sessions will include an invited talk, followed by a series of contributed talks. This year's invited speakers are:
- Dominic Vella (Oxford University): "Elasto-capillarity: The role of stretching";
- Eitan Grinzpun (Columbia Unviersity): "Geometric Computation of Elastica in Contact"
- Xuanhe Zhao (Duke University): "Harnessing instabilities in polymers under electric fields"
Contributed
abstracts should include the focus topic ("12.7.4 Extreme Mechanics:
Elasticity and Deformation") as the sorting category in order to ensure
allocation to the correct session. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 19, 2010, 5:00 p.m. (EST). Abstracts may be submitted on: http://abs.aps.org/
abstracts should include the focus topic ("12.7.4 Extreme Mechanics:
Elasticity and Deformation") as the sorting category in order to ensure
allocation to the correct session. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 19, 2010, 5:00 p.m. (EST). Abstracts may be submitted on: http://abs.aps.org/
I am enclosing below a more detailed description of this Focus
Sessions. We have seen an increasing interest in this topic (36
contributed talks last year!) and look forward to your support in
continuing it. I encourage you to contribute a talk and pass on this
information to anyone you think might be interested.
Sessions. We have seen an increasing interest in this topic (36
contributed talks last year!) and look forward to your support in
continuing it. I encourage you to contribute a talk and pass on this
information to anyone you think might be interested.
Look forward to seeing you in March.
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Focus Session: **Extreme Mechanics - Elasticity and Deformation**
March Meeting of the American Physical Society
Dallas, TX , March 21-25, 2011
Sorting Category: 12.7.4
Sponsored by: GSNP (Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics)
12.7.4 Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects
Over
the past few years, the scientific community has taken the fields of
elasticity and solid mechanics into a new exciting direction. In
particular, the elasticity of soft materials and structures can be rich
and highly nontrivial. During the deformation process of a soft object,
large displacements can give rise to non-negligible geometric
nonlinearities. There is also a great potential for coupling the
elasticity of highly deformable objects with other phenomena such as
fluid flow, surface tension, fracture and adhesion, to name but a few.
Moreover, elasticity offers the unique and exciting possibility to
design multifunctional materials with novel properties through the
appropriate design of the structural layout.
the past few years, the scientific community has taken the fields of
elasticity and solid mechanics into a new exciting direction. In
particular, the elasticity of soft materials and structures can be rich
and highly nontrivial. During the deformation process of a soft object,
large displacements can give rise to non-negligible geometric
nonlinearities. There is also a great potential for coupling the
elasticity of highly deformable objects with other phenomena such as
fluid flow, surface tension, fracture and adhesion, to name but a few.
Moreover, elasticity offers the unique and exciting possibility to
design multifunctional materials with novel properties through the
appropriate design of the structural layout.