Session S3a

Instabilities in Solids, Structures and Materials

Tuesday, 10:20 - 12:00, ECCR 245

Session Chairs: Nicholas Triantafyllidis and Anthony Waas

10:20 S.D. Guest, “Zero stiffness structures”

10:40 S. Song and A.M. Waas, “Multi-scale modeling of braided textile composites under compressive loads”

11:00 Y-C. Wang,  J.G. Swadener and R.S. Lakes, “Stability of mechanical systems with negative stiffness components”

11:20 N. Triantafyllidis and S. Kankanala, “Stability of a rectangular magentoelastic block under a transverse magnetic field”

11:40 N. Triantafyllidis and J.D. Thomas, “Ductility calculations in the electromagnetic forming of freely expanding aluminum sheet - a forming limit diagram approach”

Session S3b

Instabilities in Solids, Structures and Materials

Tuesday, 1:00 - 2:40, ECCR 245

Session Chairs: Richard Becker and Anna Vainchtein

1:00 C.D. Coman, “Stress concentration and local instabilities in solids: some applications of WKB techniques”

1:20 R. Becker, “The role of heterogeneities on strain localization and fracture in large-scale dynamic simulations”

1:40 D. Bigoni, A. Piccolroaz and J.R. Willis, “Flutter instability in granular media”

2:00 J.J. Sanchez and H.L Schreyer, “Loss-of-ellipticity analysis for a crack-based continuum damage constitutive equation”

2:20 A. Vainchtein, “Dynamics of steps along a phase boundary”


Session S3c

Instabilities in Solids, Structures and Materials

Tuesday, 3:20-5:20, ECCR 245

Session Chairs:   P. Ponte-Castañda and Ryan Elliott

3:20 S. Daly, A. Miller, G. Ravichandran and K. Bhattacharya, “On the characterization of thin sheets of nickel-titanium using digital image correlation”

3:40 R.S. Elliott, J.A. Shaw and N. Triantafyllidis, “Stress-induced martensitic transformations in perfect bi-atomic crystals”

4:00 J. Niemczura and K. Ravi-Chandar, “Dynamics of propagating phase boundaries in NiTi”

4:20 O. Lopez-Pamies and P. Ponte-Castañda, “Effective behavior, microstructure evolution and macroscopic instabilities in reinforced elastomers”

4:40 S. Mohanraj, S. Vedentam and V.B.C Tan, “Phase transitions in discrete one-dimensional chains”

5:00 A. Goriely and M. Ben Amar,  “The stability of growing elastic bodies”

Session S3d

Instabilities in Solids, Structures and Materials

Wednesday, 8:00-9:40, ECCR 245

Session Chairs: Hans Obrecht and  Johann Arbocz

8:00 J. Arbocz and J. de Vries, “On a new scientific approach to shell design”

8:20 M. Sun and M.W. Hyer, “Buckling, post-buckling and material failure behavior of noncircular composite cylinders”

8:40 H. Obrecht, “Influence of wall construction on the load-carrying behavior of lightweight structures”

9:00 M.E. Pagitz and S. Pellegrino, “Critical pressure of a lobed balloon”

9:20 Y. Xu and S. Pellegrino, “Buckling and post-buckling of pumpkin balloons”

Session S3e

Instabilities in Solids, Structures and Materials

Wednesday, 10:20-12:00, ECCR 245

Session Chairs: Stelios Kyriakides and Herzl Chai

10:20 A. Limam and C. Mathon, “Buckling of thin pressurized cylinders under a bending load”

10:40 H. Chai, “On the crush worthiness of laterally confined structures under axial compression”

11:00 C.D. Christensen and E. Byskov, “Advanced postbuckling of the plastic Shanley-Hutchinson column”

11:20 E. Corona, L-H Lee, and S. Kyriakides, “Effect of yield anisotropy on buckling of tubes under bending”

11:40 H. Zhang and K. Ravi-Chandar, “High-Strain-Rate expanding ring test”