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Session X14: Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation IV

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Sponsoring Units: GSNP
Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Room: D227


Thursday, March 24, 2011
2:30PM - 3:06PM

 X14.00001: Harnessing Instabilities in Polymers under Electric Fields
Invited Speaker: Xuanhe Zhao

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 X14.00002: Ultrasoft Electronics for Hyperelastic Strain, Pressure, and Direct Curvature Sensing
Carmel Majidi , Rebecca Kramer , Robert Wood

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 X14.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, March 24, 2011
3:30PM - 3:42PM

 X14.00004: Tensile shock waves in rubber
Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar , Johnathan Niemczura

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
3:42PM - 3:54PM

 X14.00005: Kinetic features of pattern transformation and recovery in periodic hydrogel membranes
Xuelian Zhu , Rong Dong , Ji Feng , Chi-Mon Chen , Shu Yang

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
3:54PM - 4:06PM

 X14.00006: Cavitation in elastomeric solids: A defect-growth theory
Oscar Lopez-Pamies , Martin Idiart , Toshio Nakamura

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
4:06PM - 4:18PM

 X14.00007: The aerodynamics of jumping rope
Jeffrey Aristoff , Howard Stone

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
4:18PM - 4:30PM

 X14.00008: Helical Root Buckling: A Transient Mechanism for Stiff Interface Penetration
Jesse Silverberg , Roslyn Noar , Michael Packer , Maria Harrison , Itai Cohen , Chris Henley , Sharon Gerbode

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
4:30PM - 4:42PM

 X14.00009: Increasing Digging Efficiency Using Two Biologically-Inspired Techniques
Dawn Wendell , Peko Hosoi

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
4:42PM - 4:54PM

 X14.00010: Pattern switches in granular crystals
Katia Bertoldi , JongMin Shim , Fatih Goncu , Stephen Willshaw , Tom Mullin , Stefan Luding

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
4:54PM - 5:06PM

 X14.00011: Evidence for a mechanical instability, via folding, of the vein network in leaves
Pilnam Kim , Manouk Abkarian , Howard A. Stone

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
5:06PM - 5:18PM

 X14.00012: Minimal resonances in annular non-Euclidean strips
Bryan Chen , Christian Santangelo

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
5:18PM - 5:30PM

 X14.00013: Deflation of elastic surfaces
Catherine Quilliet

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