Organizers:
● Pedro Ponte Castañeda, University of Pennsylvania, ponte@seas.upenn.edu
● Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, y-huang@northwestern.edu
Description:
This symposium will honor the contributions of Professor Suquet in the area of solid mechanics. The symposium is by invitation only.
Organizers:
● Narayana R. Aluru, University of Texas at Austin, aluru@utexas.edu
Description:
This symposium will honor the contributions of Professor Karniadakis in the areas of fluid mechanics at all scales, uncertainty quantification, fractional calculus, and machine learning. If you are interested in participating in this symposium, please contact the symposium organizer.
Organizers:
● Arash Yavari, Georgia Institute of Technology, arash.yavari@ce.gatech.edu
● Yibin Fu, Keele University, y.fu@keele.ac.uk
● Yang Liu, University of Oxford, liuy3@maths.ox.ac.uk
Description:
This by-invitation-only symposium is in honor of the 2024 Engineering Science Medal recipient Professor Alain Goriely of the University of Oxford.
Organizers:
● Hanqing Jiang, Westlake University, hanqing.jiang@westlake.edu.cn
● Dixia Fan, Westlake University, fandixia@westlake.edu.cn
Description:
This symposium will honor the contributions of newly elected SES Fellows, Rice Medalist, and Young Investigator Medalist. The symposium is by invitation only.
Organizers:
● Sergio Andres Galindo-Torres, Westlake University, s.torres@westlake.edu.cn
● Ryan Hurley, John Hopkins University, rhurley6@jhu.edu
● Kimberly Hill, University of Minnesota, kmhill@umn.edu
● Jidong Zhao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, jzhao@ust.hk
● Chongpu Zhai, Xi’an Jiaotong University, zhaichongpu@xjtu.edu.cn
● Jose E. Andrade, California Institute of Technology, jandrade@caltech.edu
● Teng Man, Westlake University, manteng@westlake.edu.cn
● Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, kkamrin@mit.edu
● Lu Liu, Dalian University of Technology, liulu@dlut.edu.cn
● Limin Wang, Institute of Processed Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, lmwang@ipe.ac.cn
● David Henann, Brown University, David_Henann@brown.edu
● Herbert E. Huppert, University of Cambridge, heh1@cam.ac.uk
● Pei Zhang, Westlake University, zhangpei@westlake.edu.cn
●Lu Jing, Tsinghua University, lujing@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn
Description:
Granular materials, such as those arising in industry and geophysics, displays a variety of unique phenomena, such as evolving volume compaction/dilation, jamming transition, fluid solid interactions, localized shear-banding, grain breakages, flow and contaminant transport in pore spaces, shear thickening/thinning, and granular segregation. The varied behavior of granular materials at the macroscopic, continuum scale stems from the rich physics at the microstructural scale; however, understanding the underlying microscale mechanics and physics and the connections between the particle and continuum scales remain unresolved issues of current research. Recent decades witness significant progress having been made in promoting various advanced experimental techniques, generalizing the rheological behaviors of granular flows, understanding the jamming transition physics of granular systems, and proposing multiple numerical techniques to quantitatively represent the thermal, mechanical, and chemical behaviors of granular materials.
This mini-symposium aims to highlight current state-of-the-art research in the mechanics and physics of granular systems across different scales ranging from the particle level to the continuum level and with different physical phases. We encourage submissions of abstracts with experimental, theoretical, and computational focuses. Topics of interest include advanced experimental techniques (such as particle tracking velocimetry and photoelasticimetry), visco-elasto-plasticity of granular solids, rheology and segregation of granular mixtures, contaminant transport within granular-fluid systems, as well as modeling work related to discrete-particle modeling, statistical mechanics of granular media, homogenization approaches toward continuum modeling, classical and higher-order continuum theories, finite-element modeling, multi-scale approaches, parallel computing architecture, and machine learning methods.
Organizers:
● Hui Xiang, Scien42 Tech, xianghui@scien42.tech
● Xuhui Meng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, xuhui_meng@brown.edu
● Shengze Cai, Zhejiang University, shengze_cai@zju.edu.cn
● Tailin Wu, Westlake University, wutailin@westlake.edu.cn
● Jiaqing Kou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, koujiaqing93@163.com
● Dixia Fan, Westlake University, fandixia@westlake.edu.cn
Description:
Fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in many fields including aerospace, automotive, chemical, and environmental engineering. However, despite its importance, fluid dynamics remains a complex field that requires advanced mathematical tools to model and analyze. AI foundation models have shown great potential in solving complex problems across various domains. These models are trained on large datasets and can learn patterns and relationships within the data. By applying AI foundation models to fluid dynamics, we can potentially uncover new insights into the behavior of fluids and improve our ability to predict their behavior under different conditions. Therefore, we invite your contribution to explore how AI foundation models can be utilized in fluid dynamics. Topics include, but not limited to:
● AI and Surrogate Models for Scientific Computing:
Data-driven modelling
Physics-informed ML
New learning algorithms for modeling Fluid Dynamics
● AI Foundation Models for Scientific Knowledge Discovery:
In-Context learning
Inductive reasoning (models learned from data)
● AI-Based Design and Control of Complex System:
RLHF enhanced Control System
LLM-based Agent as Cerebrum
Organizers:
● Xing Zhang, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, zhangx@lnm.imech.ac.cn
● Linlin Kang, Westlake University, kanglinlin@westlake.edu.cn
● Chi Zhu, Peking University, chi.zhu@pku.edu.cn
● Yi Man, Peking University, yiman@pku.edu.cn
● Zaiyi Shen, Peking University, zaiyi.shen@pku.edu.cn
● Qiang Zhong, Iowa State University, qzhong1@iastate.edu
● Zerui Peng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, zeruipeng@hust.edu.cn
● Ankang Gao, University of Science and Technology of China, ankanggao@ustc.edu.cn
● Xingwen Zheng, Zhejiang University, xingwen.zheng@zju.edu.cn
Description:
Biology has long served as a wellspring of inspiration for scientific and technological advancements in fluid mechanics, as exemplified by Leonardo Da Vinci's visionary bird-inspired airplane designs in the 15th century. The synergy between biology and fluid mechanics continues to drive innovation. The exploration of biological flow has evolved into a dynamic, multidisciplinary field, encompassing diverse facets such as micro-swimmers mimicking bacteria, robots emulating animal motions, superhydrophobic surfaces inspired by plant leaves, and the study of blood flow in the human body. These studies illuminate nature's design secrets, offering profound insights into the realms of fluid dynamics and biology. Beyond enhancing our fundamental understanding, this synergy propels technological applications, providing avenues for groundbreaking advancements. The symposium invites contributions in bio-fluid and bio-inspired fluid mechanics, fostering collaboration between experimentalists and theoreticians across locomotion, fluid-organism interactions, and internal circulatory systems.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
● Biomimetic kinematics and dynamics in fluids
● Bio-inspired propulsion and locomotion
● Fluid flow in biological systems
● Fluid-structure/fluid-structure-sound interactions in biological contexts
● Biomimetic design/control in fluid dynamics
● Flow sensing and control inspired by nature
● Biomimetic design in fluid dynamics
● Novel research techniques/paradigms for bio-inspired fluid mechanics
● Numerical modeling/experimental technique
● Artificial intelligence/machine learning
● Integrated research on neural, muscular, and fluid coupling
● Circulatory fluid dynamics
● Blood flow patterns in arteries, veins, and capillaries
● Fluid dynamics in heart
● Mass transport in microcirculation
● Microswimmers and Microrobots
● Locomotion strategies of microorganisms in fluidic environment
● Collective behaviors of active matter
● Design principles of synthetic micro-swimmers for medical applications
Organizers:
● Corey S. O'Hern, Yale University, corey.ohern@yale.edu
● Dong Wang, Yale University, dong.wang@yale.edu
Description:
Granular materials exhibit unique structural, vibrational and mechanical properties compared to those displayed by traditional crystalline materials. Examples include quasi-localized vibrational modes, vibrational mode band gaps, pressure dependent elastic moduli, and irreversible particle rearrangement events that occur even at small applied strains. Granular metamaterials that exploit these properties have been designed to redirect and mitigate vibrations and impacts, harvest energy, and act as acoustic switches and rectifiers. In addition, granular metamaterials have been used for shape morphing, locomotion and actuation in soft robotic applications and implemented as novel computing devices. This mini-symposium seeks presentations from researchers working on experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of the structural and mechanical properties of granular metamaterials, as well as applications of granular metamaterials in soft robotics, computing, and acoustics.
Organizers:
● Xiaolei Yang, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, xyang@imech.ac.cn
● Zhaobin Li, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, zhaobin.li@imech.ac.cn
Description:
Wind power is expected to play an important role in future sustainable and decarbonized energy systems. The fluid mechanics involved in harvesting wind energy are characterized by turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers, covering a broad range of scales from the aerodynamics of individual wind turbine blades to entire wind farms and extending to the atmospheric boundary layer and beyond. Notable phenomena include the aeroelasticity of large flexible wind turbine blades, the interactions between turbines and farms via wake effects, and the inherent spatiotemporal variability of wind energy. To enhance the efficiency and stability of wind power systems, a thorough comprehension of the fluid dynamics at each of these scales and their interplay is essential. Nonetheless, the vast range of scales and the complexity of these flows make it extremely difficult, necessitating a collaborative effort that integrates theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches, together with data-driven methods. This symposium invites cutting-edge research dedicated to modeling and controlling these complex flows, aiming to advance strategies that improve the reliability and the economic performance of wind energy harvesting systems, including but not limited to
● Experiment of wind harvesting systems at model and utility scales
● CFD approaches for wind energy applications
● Advanced modeling of complex flow and fluid-structure interaction
● Flow control at wind turbine and wind farm levels
Organizers:
● Bin Chen, Zhejiang University, chenb6@zju.edu.cn
Description:
This symposium focuses on the mechanics of growth and remodeling of biological process and engineering materials at different scales. Multiscale studies of mechanics of growth and remodeling are crucial for gaining a better understanding of various biological processes. By delving into these mechanics, we can enhance our comprehension of how organisms develop and grow at different scales. We can also gain insights into the intricate mechanisms involved in tissue healing and repair, as well as comprehend the dynamics of bone strength and adaptation. The knowledge derived from studying growth and remodeling mechanics at multiple scales furtherly holds great potential in the field of engineering. By harnessing this knowledge, we can pave the way for the design and creation of advanced materials used in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, etc.
Organizers:
● Farid Alisafaei, New Jersey Institute of Technology, farid.alisafaei@njit.edu
● Bin Chen, Zhejiang University, chenb6@zju.edu.cn
● Vikram Deshpande, Cambridge University, vsd@eng.cam.ac.uk
● Krishna Garikipati, University of Southern California, garikipa@usc.edu
● Guy Genin, Washington University in St. Louis, genin@wustl.edu
● Baohua Ji, Zhejiang University, bhji@zju.edu.cn
● Dechang Li, Zhejiang University, dcli@zju.edu.cn
● Shiva Rudraraju, University of Wisconsin-Madison, shiva.rudraraju@wisc.edu
● Feng Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, fengxu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
● Guangkui Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, guangkuixu@xjtu.edu.cn
Description:
Mechanobiology is now a widely accepted field of science at the interface of biology, medicine, engineering, and physics. It focuses on how the physical forces and changes in mechanical properties of living systems at multiple scales contribute to cell biology, tissue development, and disease. The mechanical response of biological cells and tissue is central to understanding their development, functioning, interactions, influence on physiology and related disease conditions. There is an increased awareness and appreciation of the mechanical and mechanobiological underpinnings of various biological phenomena like evolution of biomembranes, cytoskeletal dynamics, embryogenesis, cell division, collective cell motion, cell packing in tissues and tumors, wound healing, role in tissue formation and regeneration, to name a few. Given the invariable complexity (multi-scale, multi-physics, and multi-phase) of these phenomena, one often needs advanced theoretical, experimental and computational techniques for modeling the underlying movement, mechanics, mechano-chemistry, phase evolution and configurational change processes.
The proposed interdisciplinary mini-symposium will combine discussions of theoretical modeling and experimental investigations, aiming to further our understanding of mechanochemical coupling during biological processes on length scales from subcellular and cellular to tissue scales, with the emphasis on tying them into a coherent picture. The workshop will bring together the best scientists from different backgrounds (e.g., cell biology, biomechanics, biophysics, etc.) to exchange ideas and discuss the latest results and future directions. Clearly, there is much to be discovered in this exciting interface among physical modeling, mathematical computation, and cell biology. We will focus on the following topics:
● Multiscale mechano-chemical coupling mechanisms in cell and tissue.
● Interactions between cells and their microenvironment.
● Models and theories in biomechanics and mechanobiology.
● Simulation tools for biomechanics and mechanobiology.
● Experimental technology for biomechanics and mechanobiology.
● Mechanical aspects of biological processes at the tissue level, such as morphogenesis, tissue growth, wound healing, and cancer progression.
● Mechanomedicine, the mechanobiology- and biomechanics- based medicine: theories, technologies and devices that offer new ways of diagnosing and treating the diseases.
Organizers:
● Nima Rahbar, University of Miami, nrahbar@wpi.edu
Description:
Self-healing of materials and structures is the process of restoration of mechanical functionality utilizing various mechanisms ranging from active mineralization and polymerization to ordered or disordered self-assembly. It is now a highly topical issue in engineering mechanics of soft and hard matter because of its potential impact on safe and sustainable engineering design. While various disciplines and communities have addressed this challenging topic, the future of this emerging field will strongly depend on translational moves between disciplines, incl. chemistry, physics, materials sciences, engineering mechanics, structural engineering, geotechnics, and biomechanics. This symposium's focus is dedicated to the Mechanics of Self-Healing Materials and Structures, which seeks contributions, both theoretical and experimental in nature, that explicitly address the coupling between self-healing and mechanics of materials. Topics of particular interest include modeling open self-healing thermodynamic systems, surface vs. volume growth, innovative experimental methods to assess the mechanics of self-healing, and upscaling of atomic and/or microscopic phenomena to the structural engineering scale.
Examples include:
● Mechanical healing in biological materials and living systems
● Thermodynamics of open systems subject to healing
● Crystal growth leading to macroscopic mechanical healing
● Theoretical, numerical, experimental, and practical methods for understanding and predicting mechanical healing
● New developments related to optimized self-healing capabilities, repair techniques, and treatments to enhance the degradation resistance
● Applications to the design of structures that contain engineered and natural materials
Organizers:
● Yaning Li, Northeastern University, y.li@northeastern.edu
● Juha Song, Nanyang Technological University, songjuha@ntu.edu.sg
Description:
The symposium is dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of mechanics and material science in the fields of biology, bio-inspiration, and biomedical engineering. Its primary focus lies in exploring an array of subject areas within these fields, aiming to bring forth a comprehensive perspective on both established and emerging theories, methods, and technologies.
Key areas of interest for the symposium include:
● Mechanics of Biological Materials and Structures: This topic focuses on the study of the mechanical properties and behavior of biological materials and their structural compositions. It investigates how these materials respond to various forces and stresses, providing insights crucial for applications in bioengineering and medical sciences.
● Bio-Inspired Design, Mechanics, and Prototyping: This topic explores the mechanics of bio-inspired materials and the creation of new designs and prototypes, that are inspired by biological systems and organisms. It encompasses the process of translating natural mechanisms and structures into innovative, practical applications in various fields, particularly in design and engineering.
● Biological Material Characterization: This topic involves the comprehensive analysis of biological materials to understand their unique properties and behaviors. The focus is on identifying key characteristics that can be applied or mimicked in biomedical and biotechnological applications.
● Bio-Medical Materials and Applications: This topic covers the development and application of materials specifically designed for biomedical purposes. It includes the study of materials that are used in medical devices, implants, and therapeutic applications, emphasizing their compatibility, functionality, and effectiveness in clinical settings.
The symposium seeks submissions that address these topics, offering a platform for researchers and professionals to present their latest findings, engage in discussions, and foster collaborations in these exciting and rapidly evolving fields.
Organizers:
● Douglas Cook, Brigham Young University, d.cook@byu.edu
● Haruka Tomobe, Tokyo Institute of Technology, tomobe.h.aa@m.titech.ac.jp
Description:
A symposium dedicated to research on plants and fungi form and function. Research topics such as response to environmental factors, the measurement of mechanical tissue properties, fracture/failure of plant organs or tissues, fluid transport within plant tissues, crop biomechanics, the modeling of plant growth and development, biomimicry, predictive modeling of mechanical stresses, and multi-scale modeling of plants and fungi.
Organizers:
● Brian Cox, Arachne Consulting, brian1cox@outlook.com
● Xi-Qiao Feng, Tsinghua University, fengxq@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
● Md Taher A Saif, University of Illinois, saif@illinois.edu
● Franck Vernery, University of Colorado, franck.vernerey@colorado.edu
Description:
Soft active matter is typically made of a large number of active agents that under different conditions can either exhibit disorder or can self-organize into ordered patterns via their mutual interactions. Transitions between disorder (e.g., fluid-like Brownian motion) and ordered states can be found in biological tissues, biopolymers, bacterial colonies, birds, robotic swarms, etc. Regardless of its physical state and the nature of the agents, soft active matter is known for exhibiting a very complex and dynamic structure and functionality, embracing phenomena such as growth, adaptation, and morphogenesis. It is often postulated that this apparent complexity may be the consequence of an emergent and collective behavior of active agents governed by a limited set of interaction rules. With progress in experimental and numerical techniques and the rise of artificial intelligence, the challenges of identifying rules and attributing rules to underlying mechanisms have become rapidly growing research areas.
The objective of this symposium is to provide a platform to discuss emergent behaviors in a variety of active matter (biological or synthetic) especially where a primary or significant role is played by rules based on mechanics or motion. Systems of interest may span a wide variety of length and time scales, starting from self-organization at molecular scales (such as in the cytoskeleton), the cellular scale (such as in epithelial tissues or biofilms) or macroscopic scales (such as in groups of insects, birds and fish). The case of synthetic dynamic polymer networks and robotic swarms is also of great interest, where one can control local rules to explore emergent behavior. We encourage original contributions that may reveal rules governing emergent behavior and highlight similarities and differences in the rules governing different systems.
Organizers:
● Xilin Lü, Tongji University, xilinlu@tongji.edu.cn
● Giuseppe Buscarnera, Northwestern University, g-buscarnera@northwestern.edu
● Dawei Xue, Northwestern University, dawei.xue@northwestern.edu
Description:
Understanding and predicting natural disaster events, e.g., landslides and instability in formations containing energy resources, as well as optimizing solutions for human-natural interplay geo-systems, e.g., tunnel and borehole excavation, retaining walls, facility foundations, as well as bio-inspired geo-engineering, necessitates a profound comprehension of the catastrophic inelastic mechanics inherent in geomaterials. Within these materials, various micro-scale inelastic events —such as grain motion, rotation, debonding, crushing, and reshaping — can be triggered by changes in the surrounding multi-physics environment (loading/unloading, fluid, heat, and chemical reaction), resulting in varying degrees of macro-scale strength loss and elusive full-field deformation discontinuities, including those occurred under extremely high stress states, threatening artificial constructions and human lives. This symposium welcomes a diverse array of analytical, computational, data-driven, and experimental studies that aim to explain, simulate, and unveil connections between micro-scale inelastic events and macro-scale disaster mechanisms, including those sensitive to multi-physics effects. The objective is to bring together international researchers from various research communities to share insights and discuss state-of-the-art methods in the field of modeling multi-scale inelasticities and Multi-physics systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● laboratory characterization of geomaterials
● micromechanics of geomaterials
● instability and progressive failure of geomaterials
● advanced constitutive modeling
● multi-scale and/or multi-physics simulation techniques
● data-driven solutions
● multiscale and/or multi-physics properties in advanced, bioinspired, and/or engineered geo-systems.
Organizers:
● Huiling Duan, Peking University, hlduan@pku.edu.cn
● Fatemeh Ahmadpoor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, fatemeh.ahmadpoor@njit.edu
● Xin Yan, Beihang University, yan_xin@buaa.edu.cn
● Guijin Zou, Institute of High Performance Computing Singapore, zou_guijin@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg
Description:
Nanomaterials find extensive applications across diverse domains, including energy storage, electronics, optical devices, medical devices, and nanoelectromechanical systems. The mechanical characteristics of materials on macroscopic scale are intricately connected to their microstructures and inherent properties. Understanding the traits of nanomaterials/nanostructures and their microstructural evolution is pivotal for crafting advanced systems/devices and comprehending material evolution mechanisms. Effective and resilient computational and theoretical modeling methods play a crucial role in characterizing and designing novel nanomaterials/structures with exceptional and distinctive attributes. This symposium seeks research presentations that delineate inventive methodologies and address challenges in modeling nanomaterials/nanostructures. The focus lies in the highly interdisciplinary research intersecting mechanics, applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and high-performance computing.
Symposium topics encompass, but are not confined to, the following:
● Recent progress in atomistic/molecular modeling techniques; atomistic-based continuum mechanics modeling
● Multiscale modeling of nanomaterials; coarse-grained modeling of biomaterials; time-scaling atomistic simulations
● Advanced theoretical and computational modeling approaches for low-dimensional materials
Organizers:
● Haifei Zhan, Zhejiang University, zhan_haifei@zju.edu.cn
● Jianli Shao, Beijing Institute of Technology, shao_jianli@bit.edu.cn
Description:
Advanced metallic alloys find vast technological applications in engineering. To facilitate their manufacturing and engineering implementations, it is vital to understand their mechanical properties and the underlying mechanisms. Extensive experimental, theoretical, and computational efforts have been devoted at atomistic scale to understand their mechanical behaviours. With the intrinsic atomistic insights, atomistic simulations play a crucial role in understanding the microscopic mechanism in metallic materials, which also enable the on-demand design of advanced alloys. This mini-symposium intends to bring the recent progress on atomistic simulations for the mechanical properties or deformation mechanisms of various advanced alloys.
Organizers:
● Ke Liu, Peking University, liuke@pku.edu.cn
● Sheng Mao, Peking University, maosheng@pku.edu.cn
● Grace Gu, University of California Berkeley, ggu@berkeley.edu
● Miguel Bessa, Brown University, miguel_bessa@brown.edu
Description:
Architected materials (or metamaterials) are materials with engineered microstructures to create exotic and useful properties. Their development has been propelled by advances in manufacturing techniques (e.g., 3D printing) and in design tools with artificial intelligence (AI). This symposium focuses on the use and development of AI and machine learning methods to enhance our ability to design and analyze architected materials. Contributions on optimization of material properties, acceleration of materials discovery and simulation speed, and AI-driven manufacturing of architected materials are welcome. Simultaneously, experimental and methodological contributions that favor the use of machine learning in this context are also encouraged.
The aim of this symposium is then to bring together leading experts from materials science, mechanics, artificial intelligence, and other related fields to promote research in this emerging field and foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovation. Topics addressed in this symposium will include but are not limited to:
● Data-driven design of architected materials
● Topology optimization of architected materials
● Computational methods and information processing
● AI-assisted manufacturing of microstructures
● Predictive and explanatory models for architected materials
● Applications of architected materials
Organizers:
● Shan Tang, Dalian University of Technology, shantang@dlut.edu.cn
● Ying Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, yli2562@wisc.edu
● Yanping Lian, Beijing Institute of Technology, yanping.lian@bit.edu.cn
● Zhanli Liu, Tsinghua University, liuzhanli@tsinghua.edu.cn
Description:
The rapid development of computational technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has started to revolutionize many aspects of our lives, while also significantly changing the way computational modeling and simulation are performed. Indeed, ML and other intelligent statistics techniques extend the applicability of computational mechanics, molecular modeling, topology optimization, and structural design, for instance, by combining physics-based simulations and data-based inference. In this mini-symposium, we aim to provide a forum for the latest developments in applying AI-based technologies, such as ML in applied mechanics, materials, and engineering problems in general. We welcome all contributions, with particular interests in these areas:
● Applications of computational data science to design of materials at micro and meso scales.
● ML approaches to molecular dynamics and finite element methods.
● AI-based methods and approaches to additive manufacturing and 3D printing of complex materials.
● Data-driven methods for design, synthesis, and characterization of polymers and their composites.
● AI-based approaches to materials characterization and analysis.
● Hybrid methods in topology optimization.
Organizers:
● Xiaojia Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, zhangxs@illinois.edu
● Wei Chen, Northwestern University, weichen@northwestern.edu
● Xu Guo, Dalian University of Technology, guoxu@dlut.edu.cn
● Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University, yihuizhang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Description:
Recent developments and innovations in computational design methods drive the optimization of materials and structures toward unprecedented efficiency and sustainability. This mini-symposium aims to spotlight the transformative impact of computational design methods in material and structural optimization as well as bringing together researchers working on various aspects of computational design for optimizing materials and structures and exploring how these methods are revolutionizing the way materials and structures are conceived, analyzed, and created. By harnessing optimization algorithms, physics-based simulation, and data-driven approaches, these methods offer a pathway to not only enhance existing materials and structures but also pioneer novel solutions to many engineering challenges across disciplines. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
● Computational methods for optimal design of materials and structures for structural, acoustic, thermal, mechanical, biomechanical, or electromagnetic applications
● Recent advances in topology optimization for materials and structures
● Inverse design of materials and structures with engineered properties
● Machine learning and data-driven methods for designing materials and structures
● Design of lattices and architected materials
● Design of microstructural material systems
● Design of nonlinear materials
● Multiscale, multifunctional design of materials and structures
● Approaches to integrate manufacturing techniques into computational material design
● Hierarchical and simultaneous design of geometry and material components
● Reduced-order multiscale modeling for design optimization
● Concurrent material and structure optimization
● Design optimization under uncertainty
● Bioinspired design of composites
● Design of metamaterials
● Digital twin for optimal materials and structure optimization
Organizers:
● Frédéric Boyer, IMT-Atlantique, frederic.boyer@imt-atlantique.fr
● Federico Renda, Khalifa University, federico.renda@ku.ac.ae
● Kai Luo, Beijing Institute of Technology, kailuo@bit.edu.cn
Description:
Continuum and soft robots are a subfield of robotics that focuses on the development of robots with compliant and deformable bodies. These robots often draw inspiration from natural organisms with soft, flexible structures, such as octopuses or worms. Soft robotics aims to create machines capable of navigating unpredictable environments, interacting safely with humans, and performing tasks that may be challenging for traditional rigid robots. Soft robotics represents a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of mechanics, materials science, and robotics. With a particular emphasis on dynamics and control of continuum structures and soft robots, this symposium aims to provide a platform for researchers and engineers to discuss and advance the understanding of dynamic modeling, design, and control challenges inherent in soft robotic systems. Inspired by the unique capabilities of soft robots and continuum structures, this symposium seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical advances and applications in various engineering domains. Examples of topics in this symposium include (but are not limited to)
● Dynamic modeling approaches: geometrically exact elements tailored for continuum structures, discrete elastic rods, Cosserat rods, discrete differential geometry etc.; material models for soft robotic components; computational methods for representing and simulating soft robot dynamics.
● Model Order Reduction: modal synthesis, submanifold method, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), proper generalized decomposition (PGD), physics-informed neural networks (PINN) etc.
● Control Strategies: novel control methodologies for compliant and deformable structures, real-time control techniques for dynamic interaction in soft robot systems, adaptive and learning-based control approaches.
● Design Optimization: inverse problems related to the design of soft robots, optimization techniques for enhancing the performance and efficiency of continuum structures.
● Engineering Applications: exploration of soft robots in biomedical applications, soft robots in search and rescue operations and hazardous environments, continuum and soft robots in human-robot interaction and assistive technologies.
Organizers:
● Li Wen, Beihang University, liwen@buaa.edu.cn
● Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, perla.maiolino@eng.ox.ac.uk
● Yan Chen, Tianjin University, yan_chen@tju.edu.cn
Description:
Biological organisms can efficiently move, prey, mate, and grow in complex, unstructured natural environments. These remarkable behaviors are endowed not only by the computational intelligence in the biological brains but also by the physical intelligence encoded in their bodies. Physical intelligence can be defined as encoding sensing, actuation, control, memory, logic, computation, adaptative material and structure, self-learning, self-healing, and self-decision-making into the physical bodies of the biological or robotic agents. Through bioinspired design, intelligent soft materials, smart soft structures, and adaptable morphologies can be integrated into the soft robot’s body. Meanwhile, perceive (sense, interpret), control (decide, plan, predict, regulate), act (move, change, coordinate), and learn (adapt, evolve, acquire experience) can be encoded into the soft robot's brain. As a new paradigm, the research on physical intelligence for soft robots is still in the primary stage. The research on bio-inspired physical intelligence may promote the multi-disciplinary collaboration of biology, mechanics, materials science, automatic control, computer science, etc. The purpose of this seminar is to showcase recent advances and provide a perspective in this direction. Examples of the topics include (but are not limited to):
● Bioinspired locomotion for soft robots, e.g., flying, swimming, terrestrial, adhesion locomotion.
● Intelligent materials for soft robots, e.g., sensing, actuation, memory, computation, and communication smart materials.
● Smart structures for soft robots, e.g., mechanical metamaterials, origami/kirigami, bistable/multistable structures, tensegrity, etc.
● Sensing and actuation for soft robots, e.g., soft sensors, flexible electronics, soft actuators, integrated soft sensing-actuation.
● Modeling, control, and learning of soft robots, e.g., kinetic modeling, dynamic modeling, model-based control, model predictive control, and data-driven control for soft robots.
Organizers:
● Yuan Ma, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, y.ma@polyu.edu.hk
● Haimin Yao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Haimin.yao@polyu.edu.hk
● Xinge Yu, City University of Hong Kong, xingeyu@cityu.edu.hk
● Chwee Teck Lim, National University of Singapore, ctlim@nus.edu.sg
● Zhuang Zhang, Westlake University, zhangzhuang@westlake.edu.cn
Description:
Recent years have witnessed significant advancements in tactile sensing and feedback technologies, which signifies a fundamental transformation in human-machine interactions. Tactile sensing technologies have advanced to a point where we can imitate the sensitivity of human touch in robotics, enabling robots to handle objects with remarkable dexterity and gentleness. For tactile feedback, we can simulate complex vibration patterns, temperature changes, and texture variations, suggesting immersive applications in a variety of fields, including virtual reality, gaming, and medical training.
Despite these significant advancements, haptics still faces a number of challenges that call for more research efforts. These challenges include improving tactile sensing’s resolution, linearity, and response speed as well as tactile feedback’s higher power efficiency, lightweight designs, greater comfort, and increased effectiveness. Furthermore, incorporating tactile feedback into highly automated systems is yet relatively unexplored.
With a focus on connecting the fundamental knowledge of these technologies to successful large-scale engineering applications, this mini-symposium aims to give researchers a forum to discuss the most recent developments in tactile sensing and feedback for human-machine interactions. In order to map out the future of sophisticated human-machine interactions, we hope to bring together top experts from a variety of domains, including solid mechanics, robotics, sensors and actuators, materials science and engineering, interfacial science and physics, and tactile feedback technologies. This mini-seminar aims to extract important scientific problems, ignite new ideas and interests, draw new participants to the field, and foster collaborative opportunities that will drive the ongoing development of tactile sensing and feedback for human-machine interactions.
Topics to cover:
● Tactile sensing
● Tactile feedback
● Sensing-actuation fusion
● Interfacial mechanics and physics in haptics
● Advanced sensing technology for haptic interface
● Haptic tribology
Organizers:
● Jie Yin, NC State University, jyin8@ncsu.edu
● Yan Chen, Tianjin University, yan_chen@tju.edu.cn
● Glaucio Paulino, Princeton University, gpaulino@princeton.edu
● Ahmad Rafsanjani Abbasi, University of Southern Denmark, ahra@mmmi.sdu.dk
Description:
Recently, origami and kirigami, the ancient paper folding and/or cutting art, have played important roles in designing new robotic concepts and formats with great advantage in both fabrication, actuation, morphing as well as multiple functionalities of robots. This mini-symposium aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of origami/kirigami robotic systems to discuss and exchange the newest research outcomes and foresee the future developments.
Topics in this symposium include (but are not limited to):
● Design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, and control of origami/kirigami robots;
● Multi-scale 2D fabrication for 3D self-assembly of robotic systems;
● Kinematics/mechanics of origami/kirigami for robotic functions;
● Reconfiguration and multi-function of origami/kirigami robots;
● Origami/kirigami robots for space, land, aerial, and aqueous exploration, dexterous manipulation, medical devices, and rehabilitation etc.
Organizers:
● Yu Sun, Xi’an Jiaotong University, yu.sun@xjtu.edu.cn
● Yajing Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, eeyajing@ust.hk
● Laihao Yang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, yanglaihao@xjtu.edu.cn
Description:
Mini-invasive robotic manipulation is a revolutionary technique that enables in-situ inspection and maintenance, which refers to performing diagnosis, repair, modification, or enhancement on a target object without changing its position or state. This technique has enormous potential and significance for both healthcare and industrial sectors. In healthcare, mini-invasive robotic manipulation can be applied to various scenarios, such as drug delivery, precision surgery, and cancer therapy, with minimal damage to human bodies. In industry, mini-invasive robotic manipulation can be employed to inspect and maintain infrastructure, such as pipelines, bridges, and aircrafts, without disassembly or destruction. However, these operations are extremely challenging due to the deep cavities, physical constraints, and unstructured environments involved. To overcome these challenges, the research community has developed various types of manipulators and end effectors, ranging from micro and nanoscale to macro large scale, including micro-nanorobots, crawling robots, continuum robots, etc. These robots can adapt to different environments, such as long-narrow tunnels, large-curved surfaces, and other hard-to-reach areas, and perform complex in-situ manipulation tasks. This symposium aims to showcase the latest research on the theory and technology of mini-invasive robotic manipulation for in-situ inspection and maintenance, covering but not limited to the following topics:
● Micro-nanorobotics: The actuation, design, control, and coordination of micro and nanoscale robots for healthcare applications, such as drug delivery, cancer treatment, and tissue repair.
● Continuum robotics: The design, modeling, estimation, control, and planning of continuum robots that can mimic the motion of snakes and worms and perform in-situ manipulation tasks for both medical and industrial applications, such as endoscopic examination, vascular clearance, and machine detection and repair.
● Crawling robotics: The actuation, adhesion, control, and integration of crawling robots that can adhere to and detach from various surfaces and perform in-situ manipulation tasks for industrial applications, such as inspection and maintenance of pipelines, bridges, and aircrafts.
● Robotics tactile sensing: The principles, materials, structures, fabrications, and applications of flexible tactile sensors for robotic manipulation, as well as the enhancement of human-robot interaction and user experience.
● Innovative design: The novel design and modeling methods for manipulator mechanism and sensing structure, such as compliant mechanism, origami/kirigami, bistable/multistable structure, conformal design, programmable design, etc.
Organizers:
● Mingchao Liu, University of Birmingham, m.liu.2@bham.ac.uk
● Yifan Wang, Nanyang Technological University, yifan.wang@ntu.edu.sg
● Ke Liu, Peking University, liuke@pku.edu.cn
Description:
Structures are the foundation of functions. With the recent advances of intelligent structures, the field of robotics is undergoing a transformative shift towards unprecedented adaptivity and multifunctionality. Moving beyond the constraints of traditional structured materials with fixed post-manufacture properties, these intelligent systems are characterized by their ability to automatically respond to environmental stimuli, leading to nature-inspired capabilities such as shape-morphing, stiffness variation, and self-sensing. This adaptability is achieved through the intricate hierarchical design from micro- to macrostructures and the strategic selection of constituent materials. As such, robots are being endowed with enhanced capabilities to sense, react, and interact with their surroundings in an intrinsic and passive manner, closely mirroring the responsive nature of living organisms. The integration of such intelligent structures with advanced artificial intelligence algorithms promises the autonomy and functionality of robotic systems that can seamlessly integrate into human environments, augmenting capabilities, making them more robust, efficient, and suitable for a wide range of applications, including healthcare, manufacturing, and disaster response.
The aim of this symposium is to bring together leading experts from mechanics, robotics, physics, material science, and other related fields to promote research in this emerging field and foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovation. Topics addressed in this symposium will include but are not limited to:
● Shape-morphing and deployable structures
● Structures with tunable mechanical properties
● Computational design and optimization of intelligent structures
● Mechanical computation and information storage;
● Additive manufacturing of multi-functional or multi-material structures
● AI and Data-driven for intelligent structures
● Intelligent structures with robotic functions
Organizers:
● Lizhi Xu, The University of Hong Kong, xulizhi@hku.hk,
● Yuan Lin, The University of Hong Kong, ylin@hku.hk,
● Qin Xu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qinxu@ust.hk,
● Ji Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, liuj9@sustech.edu.cn.
Description:
Soft biological tissues provide many inspirations for the development of advanced materials with emerging technological applications. Their hierarchical and multiphasic interactions between microscopic components enable diverse combinations of excellent macroscopic properties. Inspired by biological tissues, a range of soft composites were recently developed, showing outstanding performances that are not achievable with traditional engineering techniques. They provide critical capabilities for advanced biomedical tools, energy devices, and many other functional systems. On the other hand, the complex and non-linear behaviors of soft composites require advanced theoretical models and characterization techniques for the understanding of structure-property relationships and for the engineering of materials performances.
This symposium aims to provide a platform for the discussion of recent advances in bioinspired soft composites. Topics will include but are not limited to:
● Biomimetic nanocomposites
● Fibrous materials
● Multi-phasic materials and porous solids
● Hydrogels and elastomers
● Functionalization of soft composites
● Living materials and devices
● Advanced manufacturing of soft composites
● Modeling and characterization techniques
● Soft actuators and robotics
● Active soft solids
Organizers:
● Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, yuhang.hu@me.gatech.edu
● Stephan Rudykh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, rudykh@wisc.edu
● Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, zhaox@mit.edu
Description:
Soft material is an increasingly active field of research driving science and technology into new exciting directions. Large deformations coupled with various multiphysics phenomena and instabilities at different length scales open an immensely rich research arena. The recently developed additive manufacturing (3D/4D printing) and machine learning techniques open up new avenues for developing multifunctional soft materials with novel properties and soft machines with life-like intelligence. Moreover, soft materials represent essential components in biological tissues, a topic of extreme interest for biomedical applications. This mini-symposium will address recent experimental, computational, theoretical, and manufacturing advances in the field of both synthetic and biological soft materials.
Organizers:
● Shaoting Lin, Michigan State University, linshaot@msu.edu
● Jie Zheng, University of Akron, zhengj@uakron.edu
● Zhao Qin, Syracuse University, zqin02@syr.edu
● Xiaoguang Dong, Vanderbilt University, xiaoguang.dong@vanderbilt.edu
● Xinyue Liu, Michigan State University, xyliu@msu.edu
● Walter Voit, UT Dallas, walter.voit@utdallas.edu
● Xue Feng, Tsinghua University, fengxue@tsinghua.edu.cn
● Tao Xie, Zhejiang University, taoxie@zju.edu.cn
Description:
Soft materials are materials of choice in diverse modern technologies such as tissue adhesives, bioelectronics, and soft robots. In all these technologies, the mechanical and physical properties of soft materials play an important role, which are governed by phenomena that span across different length scales, from nanoscale (polymer chains) to mesoscale (network topology), up to macroscale (bulk materials). Currently, a barrier between these different disciplines prevents a cross-scale understanding, thereby limiting the space for reaching extreme properties of soft materials. This symposium aims to bring researchers in various disciplines to exchange the latest advances in molecular design, mechanochemistry, advanced manufacturing techniques, atomic and coarse-grained simulations, and machine learning tools for understanding the structure-property relationship of soft materials and developing high-performing soft materials for actuators, sensor, robots, and biomedical devices. The mission of this symposium is to evoke the rational polymer network design for developing high-performing soft materials that possess extreme mechanical and physical properties. This symposium covers topics including but not limited to:
● Fracture, fatigue, and degradation of polymers
● Mechanochemical tools for polymers
● Multi-scale modeling for biological composites and bioinspired structural materials
● Advanced manufacturing of soft materials and polymer composites with heterogeneity
● Machine learning-assisted design for extreme properties of soft materials
● Soft materials with anisotropic and programmable domain properties together with their modeling, design, fabrication, and control
● Soft materials with stimuli-responsive and reconfigurable properties together with their applications in soft robotic actuators and flexible sensors
● Biocompatible and biodegradable soft materials in medical applications such as implantable devices, soft miniature medical robots, and continuum medical devices
Organizers:
● Emily Pentzer, Texas A&M University, emilypentzer@tamu.edu
● Pengfei Cao, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, caopf@buct.edu.cn
● Qiang Li, Huazhong Agricultural University, qiang-li@mail.hzau.edu.cn
● Peiran Wei, Texas A&M University, peiran@tamu.edu
Description:
Adaptable soft materials, known for their large shape changing, property customization, and tunable responsiveness, are at the forefront of interdisciplinary research. In the past decade, the advancement of these materials has spurred innovative design strategies, advanced manufacturing techniques, and revolutionary applications in diverse areas of polymer science and engineering.
This symposium seeks relevant contributions from academia and industry on this vibrant intersection of AM and functional soft materials, which includes but not limited to:
● Self-healing and recyclable polymer materials,
● Machine learning-assisted design for extreme properties of soft materials,
● Mechanics of conductive polymeric composites and liquid metals,
● Adaptable polymers for batteries and supercapacitors,
● Adaptable polymers for smart coatings, sensors, and soft robotics,
● Advanced manufacturing of stimuli-responsive materials,
● Biocompatible/biodegradable adaptable materials in agricultural, food, packaging, and biomedical applications, etc.
Organizers:
● Cunjiang Yu, Pennsylvania State University, cmy5358@psu.edu
● Yong Zhu, North Carolina State University, yzhu7@ncsu.edu
● Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University, yihuizhang@tsinghua.edu.cn
● Jizhou Song, Zhejiang University, jzsong@zju.edu.cn
Description:
This symposium aims to offer a forum to foster knowledge exchange and discussions on the latest advances in the fast-growing broad field of soft, flexible and stretchable electronics, sensors, and integrated systems for a wide range of applications, including but not limited to biomedicine, robotics, space, human-machine interaction, and agriculture. Examples of soft electronics include organic and inorganic flexible and stretchable electronics, flexible electronics based on low dimensional materials, bio-integrated electronics, bio-mimetic electronics, reconfigurable electronics, soft actuator/robots, and origami and kirigami-designed electronics. The objective is to forge interactions among active researchers from both academia and industries working in applied mechanics, materials science and engineering, electrical engineering, advanced manufacturing, and biomedical engineering. Both fundamental research in mechanics, materials, manufacture, device innovations, as well as practical applications of flexible and stretchable electronics are welcome.
A number of sessions will be organized to cover the following topics:
● Flexible, stretchable electronics
● Mechanics of soft electronics
● Materials and manufacturing of soft electronics
● Inorganic and organic and flexible electronics, sensors, circuits, and systems
● Soft, wearable and implantable electronics, bioelectronics
● Robotic interfaces, soft electronics implemented machines
Organizers:
● Renee Zhao, Stanford University, rrzhao@stanford.edu
● H. Jerry Qi, Georgia Institute of Technology, qih@me.gatech.edu
Description:
Functional soft composite materials are recently becoming an emerging field in scientific research and engineering innovation. They are distinct from traditional materials and composites, due to their unprecedented potential of wide range property tuning, large shape changing, and self-adaptivity. By integrating soft matrix with functional ingredients such as stimuli-responsive particles and mechanophores, soft composites could enable multifunctional material and structural systems for applications in biomimetic soft actuators, soft robotics, flexible electronics, metamaterials, and biomedical engineering. The development of functional soft composites synergistically integrates design, mechanics, and manufacturing. This symposium will represent the emerging and recent advances in soft composite materials with a focus on the design concept, design method, modeling and simulation, and fabrication, as well as their novel engineering applications across a wide range of engineering fields.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Novel concept and design methodology of soft composites with novel properties and functionalities
● Stimuli-responsive soft composites and their applications
● Soft composites for soft robotics
● Soft composites for biomimetic and biomedical applications
● Advanced manufacturing of soft composites
● Multiphysics coupling of soft composites and their applications
● Constitutive modeling of soft composite material behavior
Organizers:
● Yao Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, yzhang328@hust.edu.cn
● Shengjie Ling, Shanghai Tech University, lingshj@shanghaitech.edu.cn
● Zhaoxu Meng, Clemson University, zmeng@clemson.edu
● Wenjie Xia, Iowa State University, wxia@iastate.edu
● Anna Tarakanova, University of Connecticut, anna.tarakanova@uconn.edu
● Luis Ruiz Pestana, University of Miami, luisruizpestana@miami.edu
Description:
Understanding and predicting the advanced functionality of soft matter and hierarchical materials holds the key to solving some of today’s most pressing societal challenges, from sustainable energy storage to understanding biology and disease. Explaining the emergent behavior of hierarchical materials, which arises from the complex interplay between structural morphology, architecture, interfaces, and chemical composition across time and length scales, calls for a multiscale and multiphysics approach. To that end, a diverse set of computational modeling and theoretical tools have been developed at the interface of physics, chemistry, mechanics, and material science. In recent years, artificial intelligence-based data-driven approaches have been added to an arsenal of tools to tackle complex challenges related to the mechanics of such materials. This symposium calls for interdisciplinary research on soft matter and hierarchical materials ranging from engineered to natural and living systems that display nano, micro, and macro-scale features. We are interested in a variety of material systems, including but not limited to structural/infrastructural (e.g., cementitious, bituminous, clay), polymeric (e.g., nanocomposites, thin films, supramolecular networks), and biological and bioinspired (e.g., bone, wood, soft tissue) materials. We are also interested in a wide range of approaches, including theoretical and computational modeling, data-driven solutions, as well as innovative tools for characterizing and designing multifunctional hierarchical materials. This symposium will bring together international researchers from a broad range of disciplines, including material science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and computing, to share insights and discuss the state-of-the-art methods and applications in the emerging field of multiscale materials modeling.
Organizers:
● Wei Chen, Northwestern University, weichen@northwestern.edu
● Renee Zhao, Stanford University, rrzhao@stanford.edu
● Yayue Pan, University of Illinois at Chicago, yayuepan@uic.edu
Description:
Programmable material systems (PMS) are made of smart materials that are responsive to external stimuli (e.g., mechanical load, thermal load, chemical signals, light, and magnetic fields) and can be “programmed” to transform between multiple functional states. It is an emerging material system with far-reaching impacts on multifunctional applications in industry and defense, such as flexible electronics, soft robots, mechanical computing, wave manipulation, and biomedical devices. The research in PMS is multidisciplinary in nature, integrating efforts from mechanics, mathematics, robotics, chemical & material science, biology, computing, data science, engineering design, and manufacturing. This symposium seeks to bring together researchers working on various aspects of PMS, from mechanistic modeling and simulation to automated design methods, fabrication as well as emerging engineering applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Mechanistic modeling and simulation methods of PMS;
● Underlying mechanisms, design rules, and knowledge discovery of PMS;
● Advanced manufacturing methods and process design for PMS;
● Data collection for stimuli-responsive materials and PMS design concepts;
● Machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques for PMS;
● Topology optimization and other design optimization methods;
● Stimuli-responsive materials and structures;
● Metamaterials with programmable behaviors;
● Emerging PMS applications with novel properties and functionalities.
Organizers:
● Ruobing Bai, Northeastern University, ru.bai@northeastern.edu
● Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, University of Texas at Austin, berkin@utexas.edu
● Qihan Liu, University of Pittsburgh, qihan.liu@pitt.edu
● Canhui Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, yangch@sustech.edu.cn
Description:
The overarching theme of this mini-symposium is to understand the mechanical behavior, transport, and adhesive failure at the interface between a soft material and another material that is soft, rigid, or fluid. These interfaces typically only take a small portion of an entire material system, but play critical roles in determining the bulk property and behaviors. The mini-symposium covers all aspects of soft interfaces including energetic and dissipative behaviors, low-dimensional coupled field mechanics, mass and thermal transport across the interface, and size-dependent behaviors of soft active solids at various length scales. The mini-symposium aims to bring researchers from diverse backgrounds and promote the exchange of new knowledge and development in computational, theoretical, and experimental methods. For an increased impact, the methods can range from molecular to macro scales or link both. Classical and new experimental techniques capturing the interface/surface effects and adhesive behaviors, and validating the theory and simulation of soft interfaces are encouraged. High-level applications leveraging soft interfaces are further welcome.
The topics include, but are not limited to:
● theoretical modeling
● computational methods
● experimental characterizations
● adhesion, friction, and contact mechanics
● size-effects in soft materials
● surface instabilities such as wrinkling, creasing, and other modes
● phase transformations
● 2D crystalline and biological membranes
● elastocapillary
● stimuli-response of soft interfaces
● novel engineering/fabrication techniques, functional devices, and applications
Organizers:
● Tian Chen, University of Houston, tianchen@uh.edu,
● Xiaoyan Li, Tsinghua University, xiaoyanlithu@tsinghua.edu.cn
● Carlos Portela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, cportela@mit.edu
● Vanessa Sanchez, Rice University, v.s@rice.edu
● Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, zhangxs@illinois.edu
Description:
Architected materials combine topology and mesoscale morphological features to reach tailored mechanical, acoustic, and thermal properties unattainable by traditional monolithic solids. Material systems such as cellular solids, micro- and nano-lattices, and multi-phase composites, provide a pathway for harnessing new designs of structural materials with tunable and programmable mechanical properties for a variety of engineering applications. Recent realizations of architected materials, aided by new characterization, fabrication, design, and computational methods, have shed light on exciting and previously unexplored realms of their mechanical response.
This symposium will discuss the latest advances in the mechanics of architected materials, providing a forum for theoretical, computational, and experimental contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● design algorithms including data-driven and optimization techniques;
● architected materials and structures for structural, acoustic, thermal, mechanical, biomechanical, electromagnetic, and other applications;
● hierarchical and bio-inspired architected materials and structures;
● textiles: knitted, woven, braided, or spun architected materials;
● nonlinear mechanics and failure of architected materials;
● adaptive, reconfigurable, or stimuli-responsive architected materials;
● chemically tailored or responsive architected materials;
● connection of geometric mechanics with physics and chemistry;
● and architected materials under extreme conditions (e.g., high-velocity impact, shock, high/low temperatures, high humidity).
Organizers:
● Yin Zhang, Peking University, yinzhang@pku.edu.cn
● Xuan Zhang, Peking University, xuan.zhang@pku.edu.cn
● Xiaoding Wei, Peking University, xdwei@pku.edu.cn
● Xiaoyan Li, Tsinghua University, xiaoyanlithu@tsinghua.edu.cn
● Yujie Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, yujie_wei@lnm.imech.ac.cn
Description:
Hierarchical materials are typically composed of structures spanning from the nano to the macro level, often inspired by biological systems and boosted by cutting-edge nano-to-macro scale manufacturing. This multi-level structuring has led to their unusual physical and mechanical properties as well as a wide variety of novel applications, which range from medical implants and structural material enhancements to energy storage and catalysis. The trend in this area seems to create more sophisticated structures, integrate with additional functionalities, and advance towards intelligent materials. In this Mini-Symposium, we aim to provide a forum for exchanging the latest advances on this topic, including but not limited to, fundamental understanding, multiscale modeling, development of additive manufacturing techniques, and novel applications of hierarchical materials and architecture.
Organizers:
● Jiayao Ma, Tianjin University, jiayao.ma@tju.edu.cn
● Mark Schenk, University of Bristol, m.schenk@bristol.ac.uk
● Evgueni T. Filipov, University of Michigan, filipov@umich.edu
Description:
Origami, a traditional art form of paper folding, has been drawing increasing interest from researchers in the development of advanced Meta-structures and metamaterials. More recently, kirigami, in which cuts are systematically introduced alongside folds, is also gaining popularity. In comparison with conventional design approaches, the origami/kirigami technique offers several advantages, including a vast pool of patterns with diverse design parameters, the developable surface to facilitate efficient and cost-effective manufacturing out of flat sheet of base materials, and the availability of analytical modeling tools for pattern geometry analysis and mechanical properties characterization. This symposium is devoted to promoting scientific research and technological development of origami/kirigami-inspired meta-structures and metamaterials, including but not limited to the following topics:
● Novel structural designs
● Advances in mathematical modelling methods
● Mechanics of origami/kirigami structures and metamaterials
● Machine learning based design and property prediction
● New fabrication approaches such as 3D/4D printing
● Applications in aerospace, robotics, automobile, civil, and other relevant fields.
Organizers:
● Ramathasan Thevamaran, University of Wisconsin-Madison, thevamaran@wisc.edu
● Charles Dorn, ETH Zurich, dornch@ethz.ch
● Kathryn Matlack, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, kmatlack@illinois.edu
● Serife Tol, University of Michigan, stol@umich.edu
Description:
The focus of this symposium, in its 6th year at SES, is on the control of mechanical waves and vibrations using phononic crystals and metamaterials—advanced synthetic materials that are deliberately designed with specific geometry and constituent materials to provide a desired bulk functionality. The topics covered will include acoustic and ultrasonic bandgap materials, wave guides and filters, nonlinear dynamic metamaterials and structures, instability-induced switching behavior, non-reciprocal and directional wave transport, non-Hermitian and Parity-Time symmetric metamaterials, and topological metamaterials. Submissions focusing on the control of mechanical waves using multi-physics couplings such as electro- and magneto-mechanical couplings and chemically induced transformations are also encouraged. The symposium will bring together experimental, theoretical, and computational research in this emerging area to articulate new ideas and collaborations. We aim to provide a platform that enables the participants to advance current understanding of the control of mechanical waves and vibrations by manipulating the underlying structural features and their organization into a metamaterial in a well-informed and predictable manner.
Organizers:
● Yan-Feng Wang, Tianjin University, wangyanfeng@tju.edu.cn
● Tian-Xue Ma, Beijing Jiaotong University, matx@bjtu.edu.cn
Description:
Underwater acoustic metamaterials provide an unprecedented avenue for the manipulation of waterborne acoustic waves, and play an increasingly important role in the scientific and engineering communities. The papers related to fundamental research and/or applications of underwater metamaterials are welcome. This mini-symposium receives talks including but not limited to the following topics:
● Modeling and Inverse Design of Underwater Metamaterials
● Novel Phenomena and Quantum-like Effects in Underwater Metamaterials
● Manufacturing Methodologies of Underwater Metamaterials
● Tunable and Active Underwater Metamaterials
● Nonlinear Underwater Metamaterials
● Application Scenarios about Underwater Metamaterials
Organizers:
● Yanfeng Wang, Tianjin University, wangyanfeng@tju.edu.cn
● Lingling Wu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, lingling.wu@xjtu.edu.cn
● Yingli Li, Central South University; liyingli@csu.edu.cn
● Kun Wu, Tianjin University, kunwu@tju.edu.cn
Description:
Quasi-zero stiffness mechanism provides a crucial route for passive vibration isolation, which could balance the trade-off between load capacity and low/ultra-low frequency mechanical vibration isolation performance. This mini-symposium receives talks including but not limited to the following topics:
● Innovative designs about mechanical metamaterials with quasi-/absolute zero stiffness.
● Machine learning-based computational modeling and simulation to achieve quasi-/absolute zero stiffness.
● Materials and manufacturing methodologies to achieve the integrated fabrication of quasi-/absolute zero stiffness vibration isolators.
● Impressive applications scenarios about vibration isolators with quasi-/absolute zero stiffness vibration isolators.
● Challenges and future perspectives about vibration isolators with quasi-/absolute zero stiffness.
Organizers:
● Luoyu Roy Xu, Ningbo University, l.roy.xu@alumni.caltech.edu
● Fenghua Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, lfh@nimte.ac.cn
Description:
Because 3D printed materials are increasingly used in structural components, their mechanical behavior research becomes critical. Unlike traditional materials, these novel materials have special features due to their unique additive manufacture processes, such as numerous interfaces, defects related to the building directions. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to experimental, numerical and theoretical investigations on the deformation and failure of 3D printing polymers, metals, composites etc. using different additive manufacture techniques.
Organizers:
● Jinhui Yan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yjh@illinois.edu
● Wentao Yan, National University of Singapore, mpeyanw@nus.edu.sg
Description:
Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are revolutionizing industries. However, the wide industrial adoption is hindered by lacking understanding of the complex manufacturing process, structure, properties, and performance. This mini-symposium (MS) aims to provide a platform to discuss the mechanics and physics of AM processes, structure, property and performance to advance the fundamental understanding and further facilitate the link of process-structure-property-performance relationships. Integrated computational and experimental approaches are particularly welcome. Specific topics of the MS include (but are not limited to)
● Multi-scale and multi-physics AM processes modeling and experiments
● Microstructure evolution, phase transformation and defect formation
● Data-driven modeling techniques for model integration and material design
● In-situ monitoring and characterization
● Model calibration and validation
● Topology optimization for additive manufacturability
● Uncertainty quantification in AM process and materials properties prediction
Organizers:
● Yuan Gao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, yuan_gao@hust.edu.cn
● Baoxing Xu, University of Virginia, bx4c@virginia.edu
● Narayana R Aluru, University of Texas at Austin, aluru@utexas.edu
● Hangbo Zhao, University of Southern California, hangbozh@usc.edu
● Xiao Yan, Chongqing University, yanx23@cqu.edu.cn
● Weiyi Lu, Michigan State University, wylu@msu.edu
Description:
Interaction of solid with liquid is ubiquitous in nature, and its underpinned physical and chemical characteristics have been leveraged to benefit almost every aspect of our daily life and industry over decades. The concept of solid-liquid interaction is recently reemerging with the ever-fasting demands of calling for innovative design principles and approaches in both design and manufacturing of advanced materials, structures and devices, where seamless integrations and assemblies of different material/phase components are required across multiple scales. Distinct from the solid-solid interaction, the solid-liquid interaction provides a unique and tactful platform for future manufacturing. Due to the intrinsic deformation-free and fluidity of the liquid phase, the solid-liquid interface remains intact, and thus, releases residual stress or/and avoids deformation mismatch with surrounding solid constraints during growth, self-assembly and manufacturing of the resulted materials and structures. Understanding the underlying complex and multiplex coupled mechanics mechanisms of solid-liquid interaction is not only crucial to optimize existing strategies to material and structural design and approaches to manufacturing, but also fosters new design and manufacturing solutions with unique capability, cost efficiency, and high precision.
This symposium aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing mechanics of materials at solid-liquid interfaces that enable design and manufacturing approaches of materials, structures and devices down to nanoscale. Topics are included but not limited to:
● Theory, modeling, and experiment of manufacturing and material assembly in liquid environments
● Solid-liquid interactions in unusual physical or/and geometric environments
● Smart design and manufacturing by solid-liquid interactions
● Unusual manufacturing and integration technology by solid-liquid interactions
● Data-science driven manufacturing in liquid environments
Organizers:
● Rainer Groh, University of Bristol, rainer.groh@bristol.ac.uk
● Alberto Pirrera, University of Bristol, alberto.pirrera@bristol.ac.uk
● Jiajia Shen, University of Exeter, j.shen3@exeter.ac.uk
● Jingzhong Tong, Zhejiang University, tongjz@zju.edu.cn
Description:
Over the last decade there has been a fascinating revival of research on elastic instabilities, both in the traditional sense of viewing instabilities as a source of failure and through the contemporary perspective as a source of novel functionality. This mini-symposium provides a forum for recent advances in the study of instabilities in solids and structures, occurring either naturally or by tailored means and in applications where instabilities either lead to the ultimate failure of structural components, systems and materials, or where the instability can be embraced to enhance performance. Apart from the fundamental study of instabilities and their application we also invite submission dealing with novel methodologies, such as reduced-order modelling, numerical continuation/path-following, bifurcation landscape exploration, uncertainty quantification, and optimization methods tailored to nonlinear problems. Overall, the mini-symposium has a broad remit and welcomes analytical, computational, and/or experimental studies; applications in technology and/or industry; and the role of multi-physics environments such mechanobiology, electro- and magnetomechanics, active matter, pattern formation, and fluid-structure interactions.
Organizers:
● Guimin Chen, Xi’an Jiaotong University, guimin.chen@xjtu.edu.cn
● Larry Howell, Brigham Young University, lhowell@byu.edu
● Yan Chen, Tianjin University, yan_chen@tju.edu.cn
Description:
Multistable designs are capable of maintaining at several distinct states without power consumption. When switching between their stable states, they exhibit several distinguished features such as dramatic strain energy release, negative stiffness, bifurcations and chaos. These features make them very useful in many scenarios or even to achieve unprecedented functionalities. This symposium aims to provide a forum for discussing and disseminating novel research on the mechanics of multistable designs and their applications in mechanical metamaterials, engineering structures and intelligent robots. Topics in this symposium include (but are not limited to):
● Analytical, numerical, and experimental studies of multistable behaviors in compliant mechanisms, origami, kirigami, and tensegrity structures
● Applications of multistable designs in mechanical metamaterials and engineering structures for tunable properties
● Applications of multistable designs for energy harvesting, energy absorbing, shape morphing and other interesting functional properties
● Applications in robots for actuation, sensing and reconfiguration
● Multistability in mechanical computing and mechanical intelligence
Organizers:
● Bin Liu, Tsinghua University, liubin@tsinghua.edu.cn
● Filippo Berto, University of Rome La Sapienza, filippo.berto@uniroma1.it
Description:
When emerging materials are used in engineering applications, their failure behaviors must be concerned. Understanding and predicting the failure and optimizing the design are always important research topics. More and more influence factors coming into play in new materials make this study more challenging, and also provide us more space to tune the toughness. This symposium aims to provide a forum for discussing and disseminating novel research findings on this subject. Examples of topics in this symposium include (but are not limited to)
● Microstructure induced complex failure behaviors
● Multiple fields coupling failure behaviors
● Phase transformation or chemical interaction coupled failure
● Fracture mechanics of elastic–plastic materials
● Failure mechanics of Metamaterials
Organizers:
● Christian C. Roth, ETH Zurich, ccroth@ethz.ch
● Yanshan Lou, Xi'an Jiaotong University, ys.lou@xjtu.edu.cn
Description:
Ductile failure is a pivotal aspect in the performance of metals, leading to the initiation and propagation of cracks in engineering structures during forming, crash or impact scenarios. Even though research on ductile fracture has been ongoing for more than fifty years, there remain open questions related to experimental characterization at the macro-scale as well as computational modeling of this phenomenon in engineering applications.
We thus seek for contributions of experiments, theoretical modeling and application of ductile fracture criteria. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) novel experimental characterization techniques (with proportional and non-proportional loading histories), coupled and uncoupled ductile fracture models and their required (porous and non-porous) plasticity frameworks, as well as effects of strain rate and temperature.
Organizers:
● Guozheng Kang, Southwest Jiaotong University, guozhengkang@126.com
● Xiangyu Li, Southwest Jiaotong University, zjuparis6@hotmail.com
● Qianhua Kan, Southwest Jiaotong University, qianhuakan@foxmail.com
Description:
Fatigue and fracture mechanics are the key basic problems in the field of solid mechanics, and also the technical core to ensure the safety of major engineering equipment. Fatigue and fracture mechanics under the multi-physical fields will face new challenges, which are also multi-disciplinary frontier scientific issues. There is a highly coupled process between multiple physical fields, such as temperature field, stress field, chemical field and electromagnetic field, and remarkable nonlinear, multi-scale and strongly coupled characteristics are involved. In this mini symposium, we will jointly explore the theoretical methods, numerical solution techniques, experimental techniques and mechanism-driven machine learning methods as well as their couplings concerned in the multi-field coupled fatigue and fracture mechanics.
Organizers:
● Hongyi Xiao, University of Michigan, hongyix@umich.edu
● Liuchi Li, Johns Hopkins University, lli128@jhu.edu
● Ge Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, gzhang37@cityu.edu.hk
● Yiqiu Zhao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, yiqiuzhao@ust.hk
Description:
Materials like metallic glasses, granular materials, foams, and colloids feature a disordered packing structure of their constituent elements. These materials can develop rigidity through glass transition and jamming when stress is applied, or temperature is decreased. Understanding and modeling the deformation of disordered solids are often challenging because descriptions at the continuum-scale can fail to capture important physics at the length scale of a few particles, e.g., force chains and quasi-localized plastic particle rearrangement, especially for materials lacking a separation of length scales. To address this challenge, the role of the disordered packing structure in deformation needs to be uncovered. Key questions include:
● how elastic-like response arises from the heterogeneous contact network of constituent particles
● how the disordered structure evolves during yielding and plasticity at large deformation and/or under periodic driving
● what role structural heterogeneity plays in the initiation and development of fracture in a disordered medium
This symposium aims to bring together experimental, computational, and theoretical research on a variety of disordered materials, with a focus on examining structural signatures in their mechanical response, which will provide insight for better mechanical models and design strategies for this family of materials.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: laboratory characterization of structural evolution upon deformation, meso-scale elastoplastic modeling, non-local rheology, data-driven methods for structural analysis, fracture mechanics testing and modeling for disordered solids, strategies for actively manipulating material property via structure design.
Organizers:
● Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, elbanna2@illinois.edu
● David Kammer, ETH, dkammer@ethz.ch
● John Kolinski, EPFL, john.kolinski@epfl.ch
● K. Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at Austin, ravi@utexas.edu
Description:
Fracture is a fascinating, nonlinear and often dynamic, phenomenon occurring on many scales. In many systems, small-scale perturbations may lead to large scale system fragilities and catastrophic failure. Understanding the underpinnings of material response at the microscale, including origins of friction and adhesion, and their implications for fracture at macro scale is thus of vital importance to many engineering, biological, and geophysical applications. This minisymposium solicits contributions in all fields related to multiscale physics, computational modeling and experimental investigations relevant to fracture and fragmentation processes in quasi-brittle solids and along weak interfaces. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
● constitutive modeling appropriate for modeling friction and adhesion at the microscale
● theoretical analysis of crack nucleation and initiation
● experimental observation of crack nucleation and propagation at different length scales (investigations on dynamic fracture is particularly welcome)
● computational modeling of fracture in heterogeneous systems.
Organizers:
● Christian C. Roth, ETH Zurich, ccroth@ethz.ch
● Jose A. Rodriguez-Martinez, University Carlos III of Madrid, jarmarti@ing.uc3m.es
● Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, The University of Texas at Austin, ravi@utexas.edu
Description:
The governing mechanisms leading to ductile fracture at the micro-scale, e.g. nucleation and growth of voids or microcracks, can be observed in-situ by advanced tomographic and SEM/FIB techniques. At the same time, computational modeling capabilities are constantly improving, thereby reaching levels at which a highly detailed description of the micro-mechanics of porous polycrystalline materials can now be realized. Hence, we would like to delve into this phenomenon, elucidating the underlying mechanisms.
In this mini symposium we seek contributions that advance the understanding of the mechanisms leading to ductile failure. This comprises (but is not limited to) results from (in-situ) computed tomography experiments and numerical simulations of (shear) localization (e.g. the role of porous microstructure or other heterogeneities) at various strain rates and temperatures.
Organizers:
● Jizhou Song, Zhejiang University, jzsong@zju.edu.cn
● Jianliang Xiao, University of Colorado Boulder, Jianliang.Xiao@colorado.edu
● Yuhang Li, Beihang University, liyuhang@buaa.edu.cn
Description:
Thin films and multilayered structures are critical building blocks for novel nano- and micro-scale electrical, optical and mechanical systems. Although significant effort has been devoted to these systems, the material- and size-dependent mechanical properties such as strength, adhesion, friction, deformation and failure mechanisms of this class of materials are still of great interest to the community. The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry and national labs to present, discuss and exchange the latest development in the field. Topics invited for this symposium include but are not limited to the following:
● Mechanical properties of thin films and multilayered structures
● Strengthening mechanisms of nanostructured thin films and multilayers
● In-situ experimental testing and numerical modeling at small scales
● Interface and surface properties
● Instability of films or film/substrate systems
● Adhesion, friction, deformation and failure mechanisms
Organizers:
● Liping Liu, Rutgers University, liu.liping@rutgers.edu
● Pradeep Sharma, University of Houston, psharma@central.uh.edu
● Sherry Xian Chen, Hongkong University of Science and Technology, xianchen@ust.hk
● Tal Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talco@mit.edu
● Fan Feng, Peking University, fanfeng@pku.edu.cn
Description:
Rigorous mathematical modeling plays a vital role in the study of micromechanics, biomechanics and mechanics of functional materials. Continuum mechanics offers the theoretical paradigm for modeling innovative materials and structures with unprecedented functionalities. However, a continuum theory alone may be inadequate for complex phenomena and a multiscale ab initio approach may be inevitable. The objective of this mini-symposium is to bring together mechanicians, mathematicians, and physicists from diverse backgrounds. By initiating interdisciplinary communication and sharing recent research results, the mini-symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange of research results and systematic exploration of mathematical models for complex systems. This mini-symposium welcomes all relevant presentations including but are not limited to:
● Rational treatment of deformable bodies coupled with growth, biochemistry, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, and general continuum frameworks pertaining to dissipative/diffusive and deformable bodies coupled with electromagnetic fields;
● Multiscale analysis including scaling laws, homogenization of heterogeneous materials, etc.;
● Modeling of domains/microstructures, phase boundaries/microstructural evolutions and their interactions with inhomogeneities, plasticity, fracture, and other phenomena;
● Advances in numerical techniques relevant to the modeling of multifunctional materials;
● Wave propagation & vibration involving these new multifunctional materials, and their coupling with electromagnetic waves;
● Quasistatic or dynamic characterization and responses of these multifunctional and structural materials.
Organizers:
● Jun Ding, Xi’an Jiaotong University, dingsn@xjtu.edu.cn
● Yun-Jiang Wang, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, yjwang@imech.ac.cn
● Qi An, Iowa State University, qan@iastate.edu
● Lin Li, Arizona State University, lin.li.10@asu.edu
● Penghui Cao, University of California, Irvine, caoph@uci.edu
● Yue Fan, University of Michigan, fanyue@umich.edu
● Yang Yang, The Pennsylvania State University, yang@psu.edu
Description:
High-entropy alloys and metallic glasses are two categories of complex materials, characterized by chemical disorder and structural disorder, respectively. They have attracted considerable interest over the past decades due to their exceptional properties in mechanical behavior, irradiation tolerance, and other functionalities such as catalysis, magnetism, and electronics. It remains crucial but challenging to predict their inherent local structures and establish structure-property relationships, which is important for their applications.
This symposium focuses on the local structures and intriguing properties in high entropy alloys and metallic glasses, via experimental and computational efforts. The development of new concepts and methodologies for illustrating how the local structures (e.g., local chemical order, nanoscale heterogeneity, short-to-medium range order, etc.) influence properties (e.g., deformation mechanisms, thermodynamics and kinetics, aging/rejuvenation phenomena, and irradiation tolerance, etc.), will be of particular focus.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Characterization and modeling of short-to-medium-range orders in topology and chemistry, nanoscale heterogeneity in high-entropy alloys and metallic glasses.
● Mechanical behaviors and deformation mechanisms, including deformation twinning, stacking fault, viscoplasticity, elasticity, shear banding, fracture, strain hardening, shear softening, etc.
● Non-equilibrium dynamics under complex or extreme driving conditions, such as irradiation and extreme temperatures, as well as underlying atomistic mechanisms of point-defects diffusion, annihilation and evolution of irradiation damages, etc.
● Artificial intelligence and multiscale modeling algorithms, including machine learning, thermodynamics calculations, mesoscale modeling, atomistic simulation, first-principles methods, energy landscape sampling, etc.
● Advanced manufacturing of high-entropy alloys and metallic glasses to explore the synergy of strength and ductility, and development of cellular structure, dual-phase materials or novel composites, etc.
Organizers:
● Shuozhi Xu, University of Oklahoma, shuozhixu@ou.edu
● Dengke Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, dengke.chen@sjtu.edu.cn
● Yanqing Su, Utah State University, yanqing.su@usu.edu
● Xiang Zhang, University of Wyoming, xiang.zhang@uwyo.edu
Description:
Developing materials for extreme environments is critical for engineering advanced devices capable of withstanding harsh conditions. As global energy demands rise, the development of new energy technologies increasingly relies on materials that can endure extreme pressures, temperatures, and fluxes of energetic particles and photons, as well as aggressive chemical reactions. Under the duress of extreme conditions, the mechanical properties of materials can change significantly. Metals may experience embrittlement or creep when exposed to high-temperature environments in jet engines or power plants, leading to potential failure even at low stress levels. Ceramics could undergo thermal shock or become more susceptible to fracture when subjected to sudden temperature changes, as seen in spacecraft thermal protection systems during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Polymers might degrade or lose their structural integrity due to prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation in outdoor applications or the vacuum of space, compromising their mechanical performance over time. Investigating the mechanics of materials in extreme environments aids in the design and manufacturing of materials that are not only more resilient but also more efficient for use. This symposium provides a platform for scientists and engineers to present their latest research in addressing the mechanics of materials in extreme environments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Materials in extreme thermal environments, e.g., elevated temperatures and cryogenic conditions;
● Materials subjected to shock loading or high hydrostatic pressures;
● Materials exposed to high fluxes of energetic particles (e.g., neutrons, protons, and helium nuclei) and photons;
● Hydrogen embrittlement in materials;
● Materials in chemically reactive environments, such as those involving corrosion, oxidation, or acidic conditions.
Organizers:
● Jingda Tang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, tangjd@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
● Mingchao Liu, University of Birmingham, m.liu.2@bham.ac.uk
● Zheng Jia, Zhejiang University, zheng.jia@zju.edu.cn
Description:
Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) is an international journal on solid mechanics. EML enables rapid communication of research that highlights the role of mechanics in multi-disciplinary areas across materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and engineering. EML was founded by Elsevier in 2014, with three Editors-in-Chief: Jimmy Hsia, John. A. Rogers, and Zhigang Suo. 2024 is the 10th Anniversary for EML. The 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting will be held in Hangzhou during Aug 20-23, 2024. We, on behalf of the editorial office of EML, apply for a mini-symposium for this event. We can invite Editors, Editorial Board Members, Young Investigator Awardees and other distinguished professors to attend this symposium. This symposium will be interested to broad audiences among the SES members. Based on this by-invitation-only symposium, a special issue for 10th Anniversary will be published on EML. It is hoped that all these events can help enhance the impact of the SES conference.
Organizers:
● Xudong Liang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, liangxudong@hit.edu.cn
● Wei Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, weiwangsz@hit.edu.cn
● Zhen Yin, Tongji University, zhenyin@tongji.edu.cn
● Shilei Xue, Westlake University, xueshilei@westlake.edu.cn
Description:
Collective machines are engineering systems constructed by a collective of basic structural/machine units. For many engineering applications, they have attractive characteristics such as robustness, scalability, noise/damage tolerance, self-repair and self-organization. The complex behaviors of collective machines are emergent from the local interactions between the units they are made of. The interactions are often simple compared to the collective behaviors and can be established through force fields, data transfer, and multi-mode sense (vision, hearing, …). The nature of the interaction can be tuned in biological and engineering systems, leading to the emergence of complex, largescale behaviors. They are common in our physical world at all length scales. For example, self-assembly of colloids, animal flocks, tumor metastasis, and ants forming dynamic rafts.
Research on collective machines is highly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Each discipline may have its perspective and focus. Dense architected materials, voxelated materials, granular matter, colloid, active matter, cells and tissues, swarm robotics, micro-robotics, multi-agent systems, and many other research entities can all be considered as collective machines. In addition to being a physical entity, the concept of collectives can also be considered a way to perceive our nature. The study of collective machines enjoys a symbiotic relationship with mechanics, physics, materials science, and chemistry, with new states of matter providing fresh arenas for emerging opportunities for students and early career researchers.
Organizers:
● Yikai Jia, Northwestern Polytechnical University, yjia3@nwpu.edu.cn
● Binghe Liu, Chongqing University, liubinghe@cqu.edu.cn
● Chunhao Yuan, Southeast University, chunhaoyuan@seu.edu.cn
● Jun Xu, University of Delaware, junxu@udel.edu
Description:
In the ever-evolving landscape of sustainable and renewable energy, the urgency of ensuring the sustainability and safety of energy storage devices, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, cannot be overstated. As the world pivots towards a more eco-conscious future, it becomes paramount to comprehensively study the intricate multiphysics and multiscale coupling behaviors inherent to energy storage materials. At the forefront of this multidisciplinary endeavor lies the fascinating realm of electrochemo-mechanical behavior, a field that amalgamates principles from materials science, chemistry, physics, and engineering. It's a pivotal focal point that delves into the very core of how these materials function and interact, bearing significant implications for the future of sustainable energy solutions. In light of these challenges and opportunities, we are delighted to present a mini-symposium that aims to convene brilliant minds from diverse academic and research disciplines. Our goal is to foster an environment where researchers can collectively explore recent breakthroughs in the dynamic and interconnected domains of sustainability and safety in energy storage materials.
The symposium is designed to cover an array of critical topics, including:
● Characterization of electrochemical and mechanical behavior
● Modeling and simulation of electrochemical and mechanical behavior
● Design and optimization methodologies for improving performance of energy materials
● Novel experimental techniques for studying electrochemo-mechanical behavior
We invite researchers, scientists, engineers, and enthusiasts to join us in this mini-symposium, where we will embark on a collaborative journey to illuminate the path forward in the realm of sustainable and safe energy storage. Together, we can drive innovation, share knowledge, and contribute to a more sustainable and eco-conscious world. Your insights and contributions are essential in shaping the future of energy storage and, by extension, the future of our planet.
Organizers:
● Hao-Sen Chen, Beijing Institute of Technology, chenhs@bit.edu.cn
● Chunguang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chenchunguang@imech.ac.cn
● Le Yang, Beijing Institute of Technology, yangl2010@126.com
● Jici Wen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, wenjici@lnm.imech.ac.cn
● Yujie Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, yujie_wei@lnm.imech.ac.cn
Description:
Understanding and unraveling the mechanical complexities of batteries in service is crucial for enhancing their cyclic performance. However, the degradation process of batteries originates from atomic- and particle-scale defects and develops to electrode film- and cell-level failures, involving electrochemical side reactions, material and structural damage, and intricate thermal runaway processes—all intertwined in a symphony of complexities. By delving into these multi-dimensional perspectives through theoretical modeling, experimental characterization, multi-scale and multi-physical simulation, and other methodologies, the aim is to gain a comprehensive understanding of batteries’ failure mechanisms. This symposium serves as a nexus for experts and enthusiasts alike, fostering the collaboration and accelerating the development of sustainable, high-performance energy storage technologies.
Typically, this symposium will discuss the recent advancements in mechanics of batteries, providing a forum for theoretical, computational, and experimental contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Failure characterizations of batteries with multi physical process, encompassing electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical behaviors;
● Multi-scale and multi-physical theory models and calculation methods, extending beyond materials to batteries;
● Advanced structural design of electrodes and batteries to exploring advanced structural concepts that is promising to revolutionize the filed.
Organizers:
● Hongtao Wang, Zhejiang University, htw@zju.edu.cn
● Anmin Nie, Yanshan University, anmin@ysu.edu.cn
● Peng Wang, Shanghai University, wangp@shu.edu.cn
● Yu Duan, Suzhou Laboratory, duany@szlab.ac.cn
● Yeqiang Bu, Zhejiang University, yeqiangbu@zju.edu.cn
Description:
Mechanics and materials science are intricately intertwined disciplines. Mechanics focuses on the study of matter's movement and deformation, whereas materials represent the fundamental components of matter. Research in mechanics enriches our comprehension of material behavior, steering the design and formulation of materials. This exploration transcends the conventional limits of human understanding of materials, thereby significantly propelling the advancement of materials science. This symposium serves as a platform to honor the contributions of Prof. Wei Yang (Zhejiang University) in the above topics. Presentations are only by invitations, and topics will be in accord with Prof. Wei Yang’s research on fracture mechanics, micro-nano mechanics and material mechanics.
Organizers:
● Wei Lu, University of Michigan, weilu@umich.edu
● Jonghyun Park, Missouri University of Science and Technology, parkjonghy@mst.edu
Description:
Energy storage devices and systems, from batteries, supercapacitors to fuel cells, have broad applications from electric vehicles, grids to consumer electronics. These systems are inherently multiphysics and multiscale. Technology advancement demands energy storage solutions with higher capacity, longer life, higher reliability and smarter management strategy. Designing such systems involves a trade-off among a large set of parameters. The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Materials and structures for batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and other systems.
● Mutiphysics simulations of electrochemical systems.
● Prediction of performance such as capacity and degradation.
● Failure mechanisms such as fracture and damage in energy storage materials and devices.
● Design and optimization of energy storage materials, devices and systems.
● Numerical simulation techniques including machine learning approaches for energy related applications.
Organizers: (sorted alphabetically):
● Charles Dorn, ETH Zurich, dornch@ethz.ch
● Bo Li, Tsinghua University, libome@tsinghua.edu.cn
● Mingchao Liu, University of Birmingham, m.liu.2@bham.ac.uk
● Yang Li, Wuhan University, yang.li@whu.edu.cn
● Yong Ni, University of Science and Technology of China, yni@ustc.edu.cn
● Shan Tang, Dalian University of Technology, shantang@dlut.edu.cn
● Baoxing Xu, University of Virginia, bx4c@Virginia.edu
● Fan Xu, Fudan University, fanxu@fudan.edu.cn
● Lining Yao, University of California, Berkeley, liningy@berkeley.edu
● Teng Zhang, Syracuse University, tzhang48@syr.edu
● Xiang Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, xiangzhou@sjtu.edu.cn
● Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, yunlan.zhang@austin.utexas.edu
● Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University, yihuizhang@tsinghua.edu.cn
Description:
Morphing matter includes biological and engineering materials and structures with dynamic and tunable properties such as shape, color, stiffness, texture, and density. Examples include pinecones that open when dried and close when wet, an octopus that camouflages by changing body shapes, textures, and colors, food that changes shapes during cooking, and smart windows that dynamically tune color and surface roughness. When computationally designed and fabricated with well-defined objectives, they can have great potential in addressing a range of societal challenges in sustainability, accessibility, inclusive design, and embodied haptics for augmented humans through flexible electronics, smart structures, and soft robotics. In particular, morphing matter that dynamically changes its shape and function in response to natural and ambient energy sources, such as light, heat, or humidity, holds the potential to revolutionize the field of biodegradable and electricity-free materials and devices, allowing for the creation of adaptive, responsive, and intelligent machines and robots. The design and fabrication of morphing matter are highly crossdisciplinary and often involve multiphase materials as well as multiphysics interaction, in which mechanics plays a crucial role. To foster collaboration and exploration in this dynamic field, we are excited to announce the topic "Morphing matters: inspiration, mechanics, computation, design, fabrication, and applications" in SES 2024. This topic will serve as a platform for experts, active researchers, engineers, experts, and newcomers in the field to present their latest innovations, exchange ideas, and discuss future directions.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
● Mechanical principles of morphing matters: understanding the mechanical principles among force, geometry, and energy in multifunctional morphing matter
● Morphogenesis of active matter: understanding shape/pattern formation in living matter to inspire biomimetic design
● Kirigami and origami systems
● Analytical and computational modeling and design approaches, including geometrical, mechanistic, and AI-enabled methods
● Shape-morphing mechanical metamaterials: exploring the ability of extraordinary deformations driven by the design of architected structures
● Shape-morphing metamaterials with prescribed and actively tunable mechanical, acoustic, and other properties
● Easy-to-actuate multi-stable structures and materials
● Advancements in fabrication, actuation, and experiment techniques and platforms
● Applications of morphing matter in flexible electronics, soft robotics, deployable structures, sustainability, healthcare, and other related fields