Session M4a

MECHANICS OF MACROMOLECULAR SOLIDS AT HIGH STRAIN RATES

Thursday 10:20 - 11:40, ECCR 151

Session Chair:  Mary Boyce

10:20 M. Roland and P. Mott, “Extrapolating the deformation behavior of rubber to high rates and high pressures”

10:40  D. Porter and P. Gould, “A predictive model for high rate equations of state for polymers

11:00  A.D. Mulliken, and M.C. Boyce, “Thermomechanical constitutive behavior of amorphous polymers at high strain rates”

11:20 A.V. Amirkhizi and S. Nemat-Nasser, “High Strain-rate Response of Polyurea”

Session M4b

MECHANICS OF MACROMOLECULAR SOLIDS AT HIGH STRAIN RATES

Thursday 1:00 - 2:40, ECCR 151

Session Chair:  Mary Boyce

1:00 M.C. Boyce and J. Yi, “Experiments and constitutive modeling of the high rate behavior of polyurethanes and polyurea”

1:20 S. Sarva, A.D. Mulliken, and M.C. Boyce, “Dynamic tensile behavior of glassy polym”

1:40  A. Kaushik, R. Khattar, N.A. Kotov, and E.M. Arruda, “The response of the polymer pdda and of pdda/clay nanocomposites (artificial nacre) at low and high strain rates”

2:00 B. Song, W. Chen, Z. Liu, and S.Z. Erhan, “Dynamic compressive behavior of epoxidized soybean oil/clay nanocomposites”

2:20 T. Weerasooriya, P. Moy, and W. Chen, “Effect of strain-rate on the deformation behavior of gelatins and soft tissue”