There will be a mini-symposium titled “Modern Computational Methods in Soft Matter Mechanics " as part of 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 2025) in Chicago (July 20-24, 2025). This mini-symposium focuses on modern methods at the intersections of computational sciences and soft matter mechanics, construed broadly.
The Abstract submission deadline is January 15, 2024. To submit an abstract, please visit:
https://usnccm18.usacm.org/abstract-submission
Mini-Symposium Information:
401 - Modern Computational Methods in Soft Matter Mechanics:
Abstract: Soft materials are materials of choice in diverse modern technologies with applications including tissue adhesives, bioelectronics, and soft robots. In all these technologies, the mechanical and physical properties of soft materials play an important role, which are governed by phenomena spanning from the nanometer single chain level, the mesoscale network level, to the macro-scale bulk material level. Specifically, large deformations coupled with various multi-physical phenomena and instabilities at different length scales open an immensely rich research arena for computational mechanics approaches. Additive and multi-material manufacturing adds another layer of complexity for problems in soft materials. Moreover, soft materials represent essential components in biological tissues, a topic of extreme interest for biomedical applications. These problems, require the development of a unique suite of computational approaches that have to deviate from their traditional engineering counterparts due to the inherent nonlinearities in the response of these materials. This mini-symposium aims to bring together scientists and engineers working at the forefront of soft matter modeling (from first-principle calculations to continuum modeling, from constitutive modeling to data-driven and AI methods) to exchange and share their experiences and recent research results.
MS Organizers:
Nikolaos Bouklas (Cornell University)
(Amir) Hossein Salahshoor (Duke University)
Berkin Dortdivanlioglu (UT Austin)
Aditya Kumar (Georgia Tech)