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Thursday Morning (4/28) - 8-11 am MDT

Characterization of Time-dependent Mechanical Behaviors

1. Gabriel Sanoja (University of Texas at Austin)
   • Why is Fatigue different from Toughness in Elastomers? The Role of Network Chain Scission
2. Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
   • The Nonlinear Viscoelastic Response of Suspensions of Rigid Inclusions and Vacuous Bubbles in Rubber
3. Jerry Qi (Georgia Tech)
   • Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing and 4D Printing
4. Shawn Chester (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
   • Viscoelastic behavior of gels
5. Michelle Oyen (Washington University in St. Louis)
   • Indentation characterization of time-dependent mechanical behavior of hydrogels
6. ​Chockalingam Senthilnathan and Jian Li (Cohen's Mechanics Group, MIT)
   • Novel Cavity Induced Characterization Techniques for Soft Rate-dependent Material Properties

Thursday Afternoon (4/28) - 3-6 pm MDT

Energy Dissipation of Micro-architectured Materials

1. Carson Bruns (ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø)
   • Tuning the unusual stress dissipation and actuation properties of biodegradable slide-ring networks
2. Shengqiang Cai (University of California San Diego)
   • Fracture of vitrimers, liquid crystal elastomers, and hydrogels​
3. Franck Vernerey (ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø)
   • Statistical mechanics of cross-linked nematic networks
4. Ying Li (University of Connecticut)
   • Ultra-high Modulus of Resilience in Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites
5. Kai Yu (University of Colorado Denver)
   • Increasing the absorption characteristics of polymer foams

Friday Morning (4/29) - 8-11 am MDT

Fracture and Adhesive Mechanics

1. Nikolaos Bouklas (Cornell University)
   • A statistical mechanics framework for chain scission, based on the concepts of distorted bond potential and asymptotic matching​
2. Luca Cipelletti (Université de Montpellier)
   • Probing simultaneously the mechanical properties and microscopic dynamics of soft networks
3. Xuanhe Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
   • An Extreme Toughening Mechanism for Soft Materials
4. Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
   • Topology, Geometry, and Fracture in Networked Materials: A tale of Scales
5. Ruobing Bai (Northeastern)
   • Fatigue of Hydrogels and What We Have Learned So Far

Friday Afternoon (4/29) - 3-6 pm MDT

Dynamically Bonded Polymer Networks

1. Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania)
   • Emergence of viscosity and dissipation via stochastic bonds
2. Fay Salmon (3M)
   • Industry Perspective: Pressure Sensitive Adhesives and Biomaterials
3. Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin)
   • Thermally activated chain scission
4. Meredith Silberstein (Cornell University)
   • Elastomers with reversible and irreversible crosslinks
5. Rong Long (ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø)
   • Fracture of viscoelastic solids: steady state crack growth and beyond