This symposium will encompass recent developments in analytical, experimental and numerical analysis of mechanics of thin film and multi-layer materials. Although significant effort has been devoted to nano- and micro-scale electrical, optical and mechanical 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. Both fundamental research and practical applications of thin film and multi-layer materials are welcome. Topics invited for this symposium include but are not limited to the following:

  • Interface and surface properties
  • Adhesion, friction, deformation and failure mechanisms at small scales
  • Mechanical properties and stability of thin films and multilayered structures
  • Strengthening mechanisms of nanostructured thin films and multilayered structures
  • Thin film patterning, in-situ experimental testing and numerical modeling at small scales

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Schedule

Adhesive interactions between graphene and substrates

Kenneth Liechti, University of Texas at Austin

Buckling of stiff thin film on a prestrained bilayer substrate

Huanyu Cheng, Northwestern University, United States
Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, United States

Coupled, multiple cracking systems in multilayered composite materials

Qingda Yang, University of Miami

Crack propagation in thermal barrier coating systems

Philipp Seiler, Purdue University
Martin Bäker, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Joachim Rösler, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Deformation and failure analysis of pinch-torsion based thermal runaway risk evaluation method of Li-ion cells

Yuzhi Xia, University of Tennessee, United States
Yanfei Gao, University of Tennessee, United States
Tianlei Li, Florida State University, United States
Fei Ren, Temple University, United States
Hsin Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

Dependence of polymer thin film adhesion energy on cohesive interactions between chains

Wenjie Xia, Northwestern University, United States
David Hsu, Northwestern University, United States
Sinan Keten, Northwestern University, United States

Effects of interface roughness on the cohesive strength of self-assembled monolayers

Chen Zhang, University of Illinois, United States
Amnaya Awasthi, University of Illinois, United States
Meg Grady, University of Illinois, United States
Nancy Sottos, University of Illinois, United States
Philippe Geubelle, University of Illinois, United States

Electronic eyes enabled by stretchable electronics: mechanics, materials, and optics

Jianliang Xiao, University of Colorado Boulder

Elucidating the kinetics of twin boundaries from thermal fluctuations

Dengke Chen, University of Houston, United States
Yashashree Kulkarni, University of Houston, United States

Experimental and numerical investigation of role of contamination on tensile and shear strength of adhesively bonded joints in carbon fiber reinforced composites

Denizhan Yavas, Iowa State University, United States
Xu Shang, Iowa State University, United States
Ashraf F. Bastawros, Iowa State University, United States

Hydrogenation-assisted graphene origami

Teng Li, University of Maryland, United States
Shuze Zhu, University of Maryland, United States

Influence of particle geometry on the elastic properties of layer-by-layer assembled composite thin films

John Kieffer, University of Michigan, United States
Lang Sui, University of Michigan, United States

Interfacial adhesion of graphene by multiscale models

Rui Huang, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Interfacial mechanics of graphene

Yong Zhu, North Carolina State University

Keynote: Mechanics analysis and design of fractal interconnects for stretchable batteries

Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University

Mechanical and fracture behaviors of cellulose-based multilayer laminate

Jeffrey Youngblood, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Jen-Chieh Liu, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Robert Moon, US Forest Service, United States

Mesoscale simulation of stress relaxation in thin polymer films and the connection to nanocomposites

Brendan Abberton, Northwestern University, United States
Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, United States
Sinan Keten, Northwestern University, United States

Microcantilever deflection induced to hybridization of monomolecular DNA films: lower immobilization densities lead to larger deflections?

Pranav Shrotriya, Iowa State University

Molecular tailoring of thin film/substrate interfaces using self-assembled monolayers

Philippe Geubelle, University of Illinois, United States
Chen Zhang, University of Illinois, United States
Amnaya Awasthi, University of Illinois, United States
Marta Grady, University of Illinois, United States
Nancy Sottos, University of Illinois, United States

Nonlinear analysis of multilayer composite pipes

Dinh Chi Pham, Institute of High Performance Computing

Nonlinear wave propagation in periodic multilayer of polymers

Pai Wang, Harvard University, United States
Filippo Casadei, Harvard University, United States
Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University, United States

Pile-up considerations during nanoindentation

MariAnne Sullivan, Auburn University, United States
Bart Prorok, Auburn University, United States

Residual stress and mechanical property measurements in amorphous Si photovoltaic thin films

Dimitrios Antartis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Role of length scale and temperature in indentation induced creep behavior of polycrystalline Al

Sudipta Biswas, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Jonathan Marsh, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Vikas Tomar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

Size effects in mechanical behavior of submicron and nanometer thick textured Pt films

Debashish Das, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
Ronald Polcawich, US Army Research Lab, United States

Size effects of mechanical response in thin film samples versus bulk-molecular dynamics simulation study

Hojin Kim, Purdue University, United States
Alejandro Strachan, Purdue University, United States

Strain controlled faceted bubbles in supported graphene

Kuan Zhang, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Marino Arroyo

Strain rate dependence of yield stress and early Bauschinger effect in nanoscale aluminum films with different textures

Ehsan Izadi, Arizona State University, United States
Jagannathan Rajagopalan, Arizona State University, United States

Strengthening mechanisms of highly textured Cu/Co and Ag/Al nanolayers with high density twins and stacking faults

Xinghang Zhang, Texas A&M University, United States
Yue Liu, Texas A&M University, United States
Youxing Chen, Texas A&M University, United States
Kaiyuan Yu, Texas A&M University, United States
Haiyan Wang, Texas A&M University, United States

Stress evolution of anodic alumina films prior to the pore formation

Ömer Özgür Çapraz, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Shinsuke Ide, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Pranav Shrotriya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Kurt R. Hebert, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States

Stress-function variational method for interfacial stress analysis of bonded and adhesively bonded joints subjected to mechanical and thermomechanical loads

Xiangfa Wu, North Dakota State University

Stretchability of freestanding and polymer-supported serpentine thin films

Shixuan Yang, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Surface cracking behavior and its influence on interfacial delamination of thermal barrier coating

Xueling Fan, Tokyo University of Science/Xi’an Jiaotong University
Rong Xu, Purdue University, United States
Weixu Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Tiejun Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Thermo-mechanical modeling of scanning Joule expansion microscopy imaging of single-walled carbon nanotube devices

Jizhou Song, Zhejiang University
Xu Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States