Complexity in mechanics: Intermittency and collective phenomena in disordered solids
Coordinators: Corey O’Hern and Laurent Ponson
Scientific Advisors: Robert Behringer, J.P. Bouchaud, Karin Dahmen, Pierre Le Doussal, Craig Maloney, Kay Wiese, Stefano Zapperi
Glasses, polycrystalline metals, porous media and jammed granular
materials – their statics and dynamical behaviors span a wide range of length
and time scales and have challenged theorists and experimentalists alike. This conference will bring together
mechanical engineers, materials scientists, and physicists to better understand
the complex mechanical behavior of such disordered solids. We will
investigate the extent to which similar concepts can be used to describe the
connection between the micro- and macroscale features in these materials and
capture their nonlinear and intermittent response to external driving. Particular themes of the conference will
include acoustics of granular materials, mechanical response of glass-forming
materials, glass-formability in bulk metallic glasses, failure of brittle
materials, damage spreading and localization in micro-cracked solids,
plasticity, and dislocation dynamics in metals. The conference will also focus
on the application of new concepts emerging from the study of collective and
nonlinear behavior of amorphous solids to the design of engineered microstructures
and metamaterials.
Major conference themes:
- Deformation of amorphous and glassy materials
- Mechanical properties of jammed granular media: soft modes, rigidity, and acoustics
- Multi-scale modeling of fracture in disordered materials: intermittency, roughening, and effective toughness
- Damage spreading and localization in micro-cracked materials
- Crystal plasticity at the microscale: fluctuations, size effects, and polycrystalline plasticity
- Martensites: hysteretic behavior, microstructure organization, and shape memory alloys
Poster Session: There will be a poster session during the conference reception at 5:45pm on Tuesday, October 21st. Everyone is invited to bring a poster. If you are interested in displaying a poster please submit an abstract using the web form. The deadline for abstract submissions is September 22nd.