Program

Session 1, 8:30-10:00am; Chair: Xuanhe Zhao

Costantino Creton, ESPCI Paris (France)

Initiation of Fracture in Tough Elastomers: Coupled Localized Damage and Deformation

K. Ravi-Chandar, UT Austin

On the Nucleation and Growth of Cracks in Elastomers

Zhigang Suo, Harvard University

Fractocohesive Length

Session 2, 10:30am-12:00pm; Chair: Nicholas Bouklas

Meredith Silberstein, Cornell University

Understanding Large Deformation, Time-Dependent, Mechanics of Elastomers and Gels with Tailored Crosslinks

Franck Vernerey, University of Colorado Boulder

Out-of-equilibrium Fracture of Dynamic Networks

Kenneth Shull, Northwestern University

Deformation and Fracture of Glassy Epoxy Thermosets with Dynamic Bonds

Session 3, 1:30-3:00pm; Chair: Rui Huang

Nicholas Peppas, University of Texas at Austin

Strength and Toughness of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogels by Combination of Freezing/Thawing and Multiaxial Crystallization

Koichi Mayumi, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Tough Polymer Gels Reinforced by Strain-Induced Crystallization

Shaoting Lin, Michigan State University

Impact of Topological Defects on Strain-induced Crystallization and Solid-state Cooling in Elastocaloric Polymers

Session 4, 3:30-5:30pm; Chair: Oscar Lopez-Pamies

Vicky Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University

The Fracture Toughness of Weld Formed by Fused Filament Fabrication

Kevin Turner, University of Pennsylvania

Engineering Toughness Through Material Architecture

John Kolinski, EPFL (Switzerland)

3D Crack Tip Kinematics in Brittle Hydrogels: How Geometry Influences Toughness

Gregory J. Rodin, UT Austin

Analysis of Cracks in Thin Constrained Layers

Session 5, 8:30-10:00am; Chair: Kevin Turner

Michael Rubinstein, Duke University

Polymer Physics of Networks, Gels, and Melts Fracture

Xuanhe Zhao, MIT

Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymer Networks

Nicholas Bouklas, Cornell University

From Statistical Mechanics of Polymer Chains to Continuum Modeling of Damage and Fracture in Elastomeric Materials

Session 6, 10:30am – 12:00pm; Chair: Vicky Nguyen

Alan Zehnder, Cornell University

Delayed Fracture due to Time-Dependent Damage in PDMS

Prashant Purohit, University of Pennsylvania

Shear Driven (Mode II) Rupture of Blood Plasma Clots

Manuel Rausch, UT Austin

Fracture Mechanical Insight into a Rare Disease

Session 7, 1:30-3:00pm; Chair: Shengqiang Cai

Oscar Lopez-Pamies, UIUC

Griffith Fracture in Viscoelastic Elastomers Done Right, with Application to the Single Edge Notch Fracture Test

Rong Long, University of Colorado Boulder

Viscoelastic Fracture Mechanics: Steady State Crack Growth and Beyond

Shi-Qing Wang, University of Akron

The Advantages of Reconsidering (Linear Elastic) Fracture Mechanics from a Different Perspective

Session 8, 3:30-5:00pm; Chair: Ruobing Bai

Lihua Jin, UCLA

Fracture of Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania

Geometric Templating of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Graphene Oxide Soap Films with Superior Mechanical Properties

Kenneth Liechti, UT Austin

Photoswitchable Polymers for Scalable 2-step Dry-Transfer of 2D Materials 

Poster Session: 5:30-6:30pm

Dinner@Tejas: 7:00-8:30pm

Session 9, 8:30-10:00am; Chair: Junsoo Kim 

Takamasa Sakai, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Tetra Gel: Exploring Precision Gel Science

Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University

Ultratough Ionogels

Tristan Baumberger, Pierre and Marie Curie University (France)

Environmental Fracture of Protein Gels

Session 10, 10:30am - 12:00pm; Chair: Tian Tang 

Anand Jagota, Lehigh University

Slicing of a Soft Solid

Matteo Ciccotti, ESPCI Paris (France)

Morphogenesis in the Cutting of Soft Polymers

Shengqiang Cai, UCSD

Fracture in Biology

Session 11, 1:30-3:00pm; Chair: Kenneth Liechti

Manoj Chaudhury, Lehigh University

Adhesive Release via Elasto-Osmotic Stress Driven Surface Instability

Ruobing Bai, Northeastern University

Interfacial Fatigue and Switchable Adhesion of Soft Sticky Adhesives

Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, UT Austin

Intuitions on Soft Material Interfaces from Modeling Perspectives

Session 12, 3:30-5:00pm; Chair: Ahmed Elbanna

Qiming Wang, University of Southern California

Mechanics of Bacteria-Bridged Engineered Living Networks: Fracture and Healing

Jin Yang, UT Austin

Probing Material Fracture after Violently Collapsing Cavitation in Soft Viscoelastic Materials

Michael Marder, UT Austin

Cracks Break the Sound Barrier

Session 13, 8:30-10:00am; Chair: K. Ravi-Chandar 

Ahmed Elbanna, UIUC

Topology, Geometry, and Fracture in Networked Materials: A Tale of Scales

Bolei Deng, Georgia Tech

A Universal Scaling Law for Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Stretchable Networks

Junsoo Kim, Northwestern University

Entanglements Make Polymer Networks Stiff, but Not Brittle

Session 14, 10:30am-12:00pm; Chair: Rong Long 

Tian Tang, University of Alberta (Canada)

Modeling Biopolymer Gel with Extensible Junction Zones

Gabriel Sanoja, UT Austin

Role of Reversible Deactivation Radical Copolymerizations (RDRPs) on Gelation, Phase Separation, and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Networks

Rui Huang, UT Austin

Modeling Thermally Activated Chain Scission and Healing in Polymer Networks