Knauss 85th
Symposium on Contemporary Research in Mechanics of Materials and Structures in Celebration of the 85th Birthday of Wolfgang Knauss
December 21, 2018
Location: 133 Guggenheim, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
On the occasion of the 85th birthday of Wolfgang Knauss we had a celebratory event at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. There was a day-long scientific symposium and a gathering of his scientific trainees/visiting scientists/intellectual progeny. His family, colleagues and friends were also included.
Program
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 7:30-8:15 | Registration and Continental BreakfastGuggenheim Laboratory Foyer |
| 8:20-8:30 | Welcoming RemarksGuruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran, Caltech |
| Session I | Chair: Stelios KyriakidesUniversity of Texas at Austin |
| 8:35-9:00 | Ioannis Chasiotis, University of IllinoisEnergy Dissipation in Mammalian Collagen Nanofibrils |
| 9:00-9:25 | Igor Emri, University of Ljubljana, and Bernd von Bernstorff, University of Karlsruhe, GermanyA breakthrough in Vibration and Sound Isolation - How to Make a (Red) VW Bug the Most Silent Limousine in the World |
| 9:25-9:50 | K. Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at AustinCavitation, Fracture and Hhealing in Elastomers |
| 9:50-10:15 | Cate Brinson, Duke UniversityThe Nanocomposite Materials Genome |
| 10:15-10:40 | Coffee BreakGuggenheim Laboratory Lobby |
| 10:40-10:55 | Group PictureFirestone Laboratory |
| Session II | Chairs: Bernd von Bernstorff, University of Karlsruhe, GermanyBernd Wetzel, Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Kaiserslautern, German |
| 11:10-11:25 | Kenneth Liechti, University of Texas at AustinFull Circle: Determining Normal and Shear Interactions at Any Mode-Mix |
| 11:25-11:50 | Wei Tong, Southern Methodist UniversityOn Some Critical Issues Related to the Experimental Characterization and Constitutive Modeling of Sheet Metal Anisotropic Plasticity |
| 11:50-12:15 | John Lambros, University of IllinoisInternal Deformation Measurements Using Xray Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation |
| 12:30-1:45 | LunchThe Athenaeum |
| Session III | Chair: Alfons Noe, Fachhochschule South Westfalia (FH-SWF) |
| 2:00-2:25 | Philippe Geubelle, University of IllinoisA Faster, Greener Way to Make Composite Materials Using Frontal Polymerization |
| 2:25-2:50 | K.-S. Kim, Brown UniversityCritical Curvature Localization in Graphene: Flexoelectric Bifurcation |
| 2:50-3:15 | Hongbing Lu, University of Texas at DallasAligned Carbon Nanotube Sheet Wrapped Carbon Fiber Composites |
| 3:15-3:40 | Weinong Chen, Purdue UniversityHigh-speed X-ray Visualization of Dynamic Damage Evolution Inside Materials in Real Time |
| 3:40-4:00 | Coffee BreakGuggenheim Laboratory Lobby |
| Session IV | Chairs: Sandeep Sane, Intel CorporationAlan Zhong, Halliburton |
| 4:00-4:25 | Tony Waas, University of MichiganThe Role of Nanoparticles in Increasing the Toughness of Laminated Composite Structures |
| 4:25-4:50 | Narasimhan Ramarathinam, Indian Institute of ScienceTensile Deformation Response of Notched Metallic Glass Specimens |
| 4:50-5:15 | Richard Hall, Wright Patterson Air Force BaseA Model for Time-dependent Damage With Oxidation in Ceramic Matrix Composites |
| 5:15-5:30 | Wolfgang Knauss, CaltechConcluding Remarks |
| 6:00 | 85th Birthday Celebration for Professor Wolfgang KnaussGates-Thomas 235 |