Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2012

Volume 57, Number 1

Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012; Boston, Massachusetts

Session Index

Session Q52: Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Shells & Snapping	Show Abstracts
Sponsoring Units: GSNP DFD Chair: Dominic Vella, Oxford University Room: 153C

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:15AM - 11:27AM		Q52.00001: Mechanics and Dynamics of a Snapping Arch Douglas Holmes, Matthieu Roch\'e, Tarun Sinha, Howard Stone Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:27AM - 11:39AM		Q52.00002: Elastocapillary-driven snap-through instability Aurelie Fargette, Arnaud Antkowiak, Sebastien Neukirch Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:39AM - 11:51AM		Q52.00003: Fast Motion of Plants through mechanical instability: Mechanics without Muscles Qiaohang Guo, Zi Chen, Huang Zheng, Wenzhe Chen Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:51AM - 12:03PM		Q52.00004: Strange instabilities of simple elastic structures Davide Bigoni, Diego Misseroni, Giovanni Noselli, Daniele Zaccaria Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:03PM - 12:15PM		Q52.00005: Materials with Tunable Behavior due to Constrained Instabilities: Performance and Stability Analysis Dennis Kochmann, Walter J. Drugan Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:15PM - 12:27PM		Q52.00006: Snap-Through of Graphene: An Elasto-Capillary Perspective Till Wagner, Dominic Vella Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:27PM - 12:39PM		Q52.00007: Electromechanical phase transition in dielectric elastomers under uniaxial tension and electrical voltage Rui Huang, Zhigang Suo Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:39PM - 12:51PM		Q52.00008: Soft Dielectrics: Heterogeneity and Instabilities Stephan Rudykh, Gal deBotton, Kaushik Bhattacharya Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:51PM - 1:03PM		Q52.00009: Modeling of dielectric elastomeric materials: theory, finite element simulation, and applications David Henann, Katia Bertoldi Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:03PM - 1:15PM		Q52.00010: Giant linear voltage-induced deformation of a dielectric elastomer actuator Jian Zhu, Matthias Kollosche, Guggi Kofod, Zhigang Suo Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:15PM - 1:27PM		Q52.00011: Geometry-induced rigidity in pressurized elastic shells Pedro Reis, Bastiaan Florijn, Arnaud Lazarus Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:27PM - 1:39PM		Q52.00012: S-cones in thin shells under indentation Alice Nasto, Amin Ajdari, Arnaud Lazarus, Ashkan Vaziri, Pedro Reis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:39PM - 1:51PM		Q52.00013: Folding and buckling pathways in spherical shells with soft spots Jayson Paulose, David Nelson Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:51PM - 2:03PM		Q52.00014: Buckliballs: Buckling-Induced Pattern Transformation of Structured Elastic Shells katia bertoldi, Jongmin Shim, Claude J. Perdigou, Elizabeth R. Chen, Pedro M. Reis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:03PM - 2:15PM		Q52.00015: Wrinkling of a collapsing viscous bubble James Bird, Howard Stone, John Bush Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2012

Volume 57, Number 1

Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012; Boston, Massachusetts

Session Index

Session Q52: Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Shells & Snapping

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