A few updates about the ASME IMECE 2020 Mechanics of Soft Materials symposium:
• IMECE 2020 will be fully online with the technical meetings held during the week of November 15. IMECE remains the same otherwise. The online format will leverage the extra capabilities that come from a virtual setting.
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to cordially invite you to submit an abstract to our symposium titled “Smart Hydrogels and Living Materials” as part of the 2018 Spring MRS conference that will be held in April 2-6, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona.
The deadline for abstract submission is Oct. 31st, 2017.
Details can be found below and through the website: http://www.mrs.org/spring-2018-call-for-papers/call-for-papers-detail/?…
The departments of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineeing at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign will be cohosting the first Midwest Mechanics of Materials and Structures workshop at UIUC this Summer (Aug. 26th, 2015).
Symposium Title: “Mechanics & Physics of Soft Materials”
Organizers: Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Xuanhe Zhao, Yuhang Hu & Stephan Rudykh
Sessions: 4
Symposium Title: “Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials”
Organizers: Shengqiang Cai (shqcai [at] ucsd.edu) & Yuhang Hu (yuhanghu [at] illinois.edu)
Sessions: 2
Abstract:
Mechanical characterization of soft hydrated materials
By Yuhang Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Importance
We develop a method of poroelastic relaxation indentation (PRI) to characterize thin layers of gels. The solution to the time-dependent boundary-value problem is obtained in a remarkably simple form, so that the force-relaxation curve obtained by indenting a gel readily determines all the poroelastic constants of the gel—the shear modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and the effective diffusivity. The method is demonstrated with a layer of polydimethylsiloxane immersed in heptane.