ASME IMECE 2020 Mechanics of Soft Materials symposium

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.

•            Authors will still be required to register to present and to be included in the final program. Registration will be at a reduced rate (exact amount to be announced).

•            Papers will still be published in the proceedings; the one author per paper registration requirement will still hold.

•            DEADLINES EXTENSION: The deadline for abstract submission (presentation only and posters) is extended to July 31st. Registration and other deadlines will also be extended (new dates to come as soon as possible). Please consider submitting abstracts to any of the Mechanics of Soft Materials symposia (topics 12-1, 12-2 and 12-3). Abstracts can be submitted through the ASME IMECE website here.

•            Access to online papers and conference proceedings will be provided to all registered attendees.

Topic 12-1: Mechanics of Soft Materials

This topic covers the characterization, prediction, modeling, and application of mechanics in soft materials. This topic seeks abstracts for individual sessions in: 

§  Active Materials 

§  Functional Soft Composites 

§  Mechano-Chemistry 

§  Mechano-Biology 

§  Gels 

§  Mechanical Characterization 

§  Degradation, Fracture, and Fatigue 

§  Soft Structures, Machines, and Robots 

 The symposium brings researchers from a variety of backgrounds together in order to exchange and discuss ideas related to theory and experimentation of the mechanics of soft materials. When submitting your abstract please include a sentence indicating which session you would like to take part in. 

Topic 12-2: Functional Soft Composites – Design, Mechanics, and Manufacturing

Functional soft composite materials are recently becoming an emerging field in scientific research and engineering innovation. They are distinct from traditional materials and composites, due to their unprecedented potential of wide range property tuning, large shape changing, and self-adaptivity. By integrating soft matrix with functional ingredients such as stimuli-responsive particles and mechanophores, soft composites could enable multifunctional material and structural systems with for applications in soft actuators, soft robotics, flexible electronics, metamaterials, and biomedical engineering. The development of functional soft composites synergistically integrates design, mechanics, and manufacturing. This symposium will represent the emerging and recent advances in soft composite materials with a focus on the design concept, design method, modeling and simulation, and fabrication, as well as their novel engineering applications across a wide range of engineering fields. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

§  Design concept and methodology of soft composites with novel properties and functionalities 

§  Constitutive modeling of soft composite material behavior 

§  Advanced manufacturing of soft composites 

§  Multiphysics coupling of soft composites and their applications 

§  Stimuli-responsive soft composites and their applications 

Topic 12-3: 3D Printed Soft Materials

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, offers unique opportunities to explore novel properties and mechanics of soft materials. This topic calls papers from research efforts related to soft materials with novel properties realized or created using 3D printing techniques. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

§  Soft metamaterials 

§  with novel properties 

§  Printed active composites 

§  Novel printing technologies with new printable soft materials 

§  Design theory or methodology for soft materials that will be realized through 3D printing 

§  Mechanics of 3D printed materials 

§  Applications of printed soft materials 

ASME Technical Committee

Mechanics of Soft Materials

Applied Mechanics Division