Call for Abstracts - Topic 12-12 Mechanical Metamaterials @ 2022 IMECE

Topic 12-12: Mechanical Metamaterials

Organized by

Jordan Raney, University of Pennsylvania, USA, raney@seas.upenn.edu

Jaehyung Ju, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, jaehyung.ju@sjtu.edu.cn

Yaning Li, Northeastern University, USA, y.li@northeastern.edu

Sung Hoon Kang, Johns Hopkins University, USA, shkang@jhu.edu

Jongmin Shim, University at Buffalo, USA, jshim@buffalo.edu

Mechanical metamaterials are intelligently designed material systems with exotic properties rarely found in nature. The exciting features of mechanical metamaterials are usually defined by their geometric architecture and internal structure rather than composition. These mechanical properties can be designed to have unusual or even opposite values compared to those found in natural materials. 

This symposium invites fundamental studies on the mechanics and design of mechanical metamaterials and their engineering applications across various scales. This symposium aims to provide a forum for investigators to discuss and disseminate novel research findings in mechanical metamaterials and architected structures. Examples of topics in this symposium include (but are not limited to) 

• Metamaterials with negative Poisson’s ratio, negative thermal expansion, negative stiffness, negative compressibility, reverse Saint-Venant’s effect, and other unusual mechanical properties
• Analytical, numerical, and experimental studies on the behaviors of architected structures, lattice materials, foams, granular structures, origami, kirigami, tessellations, tensegrities, and minimal surfaces
• Design and application of reconfigurability, tunability, multi-stability, symmetry breaking, and other interesting functional properties of mechanical metamaterials
• Responses to impact loads, strain energy transformation, super damping performance, and in situ control of the metamaterial functionality, such as reconfiguration upon command
• Advanced technologies such as 3D/4D printing to manufacture mechanical metamaterials.  

Potential authors are encouraged to submit a 400-word abstract on the topic. Authors can register for technical presentations only with the following submission deadlines: 

Submission of Presentation Only Abstracts: June 29, 2022 

For more information, you may visit the conference website: https://event.asme.org/IMECE