Thin Films and Small Scale Mechanical Behavior

a minisymposium at the

8th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics

July 24-28, 2005, Austin, Texas.

Organizers:

        Rui Huang
        Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department
        University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712
        Email: ruihuang@mail.utexas.edu

        Zhen Chen
        Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
        University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211
        Email: ChenZh@missouri.edu

Tentative Technical Program:

1. Film Growth and Self-Assembly (Chairs: Jerry Quek and Rui Huang)
    9:45am - 11:45am, Monday, July 25, 2005

        David Srolovitz, Princeton University
        Growth of Faceted GaN Islands: a level set approach (Keynote)

        Rui Huang, University of Texas at Austin
        Self-assembly of quantum dots and the effect of non-uniform strain fields

        Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston
        Characterizations of Complex Patterns in Surface Growth

        Honghui Yu, City College of New York
        Some aspects on the instability of thin film and fiber

2. Multiscale Modeling (Chairs: Zhen Chen and Sylvie Aubry)
    2:00pm - 4:00pm, Monday, July 25, 2005

        Orlando Auciello, Argonne National Lab
         Mechanical Properties of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) Thin Films Relevant to UNCD-MEMS (Keynote)

        Peter W. Chung, Army Research Lab
        Computational Prediction of Mechanically Activated Type-2 Phase Transformations in Single Sheets of Graphene

        Shaowen Xu and Xiaomin Deng, University of South Carolina
        Atomistic modeling of nano-multilayered composites

        Sergey Medyanik, Northwestern University
         Atomistic simulations and theoretical studies of stick-slip friction in atomic force microscopy

3. Dislocation and Plasticity (Chairs: Honghui Yu and Peter W. Chung)
    4:30pm - 6:30pm, Monday, July 25, 2005

        Alan Needleman, Brown University
        Size Effects in Discrete Dislocation Plasticity (Keynote)

        Y.-L. Shen, University of New Mexico
         Parametric Atomistic Analysis of Dislocation-Interface Interactions in Thin Metallic Films

        Jerry Quek, Institute of High Performance Computing of Singapore
        Level-set simulation of dislocation dynamics in thin films

        Sylvie Aubry, Sandia National Lab
        Narrow stacking fault widths in FCC metals

4. Adhesion and Delamination (Chairs: Gemunu Gunaratne and Y.-L. Shen)
    9:45am - 11:45am, Tuesday, July 26, 2005

        Kenneth Liechti, University of Texas at Austin
        Molecular and Continuum Analyses of IFM Experiments on a Self-Assembled Monolayer (Keynote)

        Zhen Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia
        Recent Advances in Multiscale Simulation of Thin Film Response and Delamination

        Alberto Cuitino, Rutgers University
        Numerical Study of Compressed Thin Film Blisters

        Philippe Geubelle, University of Illinois
        Laser-Induced Delamination Patterned Thin Films: Experiments and Spectral Analysis

5. Polymers and Biomaterials (Chairs: Alberto Cuitino and Yu Qiao)
    2:00pm - 4:00pm, Tuesday, July 26, 2005

        Kumar Vemaganti, University of Cincinnati
        An Atomic Force Microscopy Indentation Study of Biomaterial Properties

        Andy Z. Bao, Northwestern University
         Computer simulation of remodeling of actin filaments due to actomyosin interaction

        J.A.W. van Dommelen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
        Mechanical modeling of materials with a semicrystalline microstructure

        Thao Nguyen, Sandia National Lab
        Steady-State Crack Growth in Thin Viscoelastic Strips

        Se Hyuk Im, University of Texas at Austin
        Evolution of wrinkles in compressed elastic-viscoelastic bilayer thin films

6. New Mechanisms (Chairs: Horacio Espinosa and Philippe Geubelle)
    4:30pm - 6:30pm, Tuesday, July 26, 2005

        Hanchen Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
        Twinning Mechanisms in Nanograins

        Yu Qiao, University of Akron
        Size Effect in Cleavage Cracking of Polycrystalline Thin Films

        Ashkan Vaziri, Harvard University
        Dynamic Transition Between Developable States of Elastic Sheets

        Weixing Zhou, University of Illinois
        Stamp collapse in microcontact printing

        Dewei Xu, University of Texas at Austin
        A Critical Analysis of the Peninsula Blister Test for Thin Film