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Symposium FF: Mechanical Behavior of Nanomaterials--Experiments and Modeling

* Invited paper
 

8:30 AM *FF1.1
In situ Nanomechanics of the Brittle to Ductile Transition. William W. Gerberich¹, Aaron R. Beaber¹, Julia Nowak², Lucas M. Hale¹, Yuye Tang³, Roberto Ballarini³, Fredrik Oestlund⁴ and Johann Michler⁴; ¹Chem. Engng. Mat. Sci., U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ²Hysitron, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; ³Civil Engng., U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ⁴Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials, Thun, Switzerland.

9:00 AM FF1.2
Brittle and Ductile Fracture of Gold nanowires: A Quantitative In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Study. Yang Lu¹, Jianyu Huang² and Jun Lou¹; ¹Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas; ²Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:15 AM FF1.3
Saccharine Effects on Mechanical Behavior of Electrodeposited Ni Thin Films. Sumit K. Soni^1,2, Sean J. Hearne² and Brian W. Sheldon¹; ¹Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; ²Center for Integrated Nano-Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:30 AM FF1.4
Water Diffusion and Fracture Behavior in Nano-porous low-k Dielectric Film Stacks. Han Li and Joost J. Vlassak; SEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

9:45 AM FF1.5
An In-situ Electron Microscopy Study of Crack Growth in Nanocrystalline Copper and Copper-Chromium Composite Thin Films. Seong-Woong Kim and Sharvan Kumar; Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *FF1.6
Interaction of Materials Defects with External Length Scales - from Simple to Complex Geometries. Ralph Spolenak, Department of Materials, Laboratory for Nanometallurgy, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

11:00 AM FF1.7
In-situ Thermal and Lattice-strain Evolution of the Nano-particle-strengthened Alloys Subjected to Low-cycle-fatigue Experiments. E-Wen Huang, Peter K. Liaw, Kyle Woods and John Strange; Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.

11:15 AM FF1.8
Fatigue Enhancement in Nanocrystalline Metals via Grain-Boundary Stabilization. Henry A. Padilla, Brad Boyce and Elizabeth Holm; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

11:30 AM FF1.9
Wear Properties and Surface Hardness Evolution in Nano-twinned Copper Subjected to Repeated Contact Sliding. Aparna Singh¹, Ming Dao¹, Lei Lu² and Subra Suresh¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China.

11:45 AM FF1.10
Detwinning and Crack Initiation in Fatigued Highly-Aligned Nano-twinned Copper. Carla Shute¹, Benjamin Myers¹, Sujing Xie¹, Andrea Hodge², Troy Barbee³ and Julia Weertman¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; ²Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; ³Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

 

1:30 PM *FF2.1
Multi-scale Modeling of Crack Growth in Ductile Metals. Alan Needleman¹, Mathias Wallin², William A. Curtin³ and Matti Ristinmaa²; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; ²Division of Solid Mechanics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; ³Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

2:00 PM FF2.2
Hydrogen Assisted Crack Propagation in Aluminum: An Atomistic Study. Donald K. Ward and K. N. Solanki; Center for Adavanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.

2:15 PM FF2.3
Multiscale Materials Modeling Using Coupled Density Functional Theory and Discrete Dislocation Mechanics. Arun K. Nair¹, Derek H. Warner¹ and Richard G. Henning²; ¹Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; ²Material Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

2:30 PM FF2.4
Dislocation Source Strengths and Internal Stress in Nanocrystalline Metals: Predictions from a Fitted Quantized Crystal Plasticity Model. Peter M. Anderson¹, Lin Li¹, Steven Van Petegem² and Helena Van Swygenhoven²; ¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; ²Materaisl Science and Simulation, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.

2:45 PM FF2.5
A Molecular Dynamics Study of Dislocation Propagation in Nanocrystalline Al containing Oxygen. Andreas Elsener¹, Olivier Politano², Peter M. Derlet³ and Helena Van Swygenhoven¹; ¹NUM/ASQ, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland; ²Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, CNRS-Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon Cedex, France; ³NUM/CMT, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM FF2.6
Mechanism for Material Transfer in Nanoscale Asperity Contact. Jun Song¹ and David Srolovitz²; ¹Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; ²Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, New York.

3:45 PM FF2.7
Responses of Twin and Grain Boundaries at Nanometer Scale to Mechanical Attacks - A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study. Lei Yue, Dongyang Li and Hao Zhang; Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

4:00 PM FF2.8
Twin Instability of Peierls Distortion in Trans-Polyacetylene, a Spontaneous Soliton Induced Actuation Mechanism. Minghai Li and Xi Lin; Mechanical Engineering dept, Boston University, Brookline, Massachusetts.

4:15 PM FF2.9
Silk Fiber Mechanics: Multi-scale Modeling of Spider Silk. Murat Cetinkaya^1,2, Senbo Xiao^1,3 and Frauke Graeter^1,2,3; ¹Protein mechanics and evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, BW, Germany; ²Bioquant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, BW, Germany; ³MPG-CAS Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai, China.

4:30 PM FF2.10
Hierarchical Nanomechanics of Alzheimer's Aβ(1-40) Amyloid Fibrils. Raffaella Paparcone and Markus j. Buehler; MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:45 PM FF2.11
Continuum Modeling of Boron Nitride Nanotubes. Jizhou Song¹, Jian Wu², Yonggang Huang² and Keh-Chih Huang³; ¹University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; ²Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; ³Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.


 

8:30 AM *FF3.1
Dislocations in Nanowires and the Eshelby Twist. William D. Nix and David M. Barnett; Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

9:00 AM FF3.2
Investigations of Deformation Mechanisms in Ultra High Strength Nanowhiskers. Daniel S. Gianola^1,2, Gunther Richter³, Andreas Sedlmayr¹, Reiner Moenig¹, Burkhard Roos⁴, Cynthia A. Volkert⁴ and Oliver Kraft¹; ¹Institute for Materials Research II, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ³Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany; ⁴Institue for Materials Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

9:15 AM FF3.3
In-Situ TEM Studies of Nanomechanics in One-Dimensional Materials. Reza Shahbazian Yassar¹, Anjana Ashtana¹, Hessam Ghasemi¹, Anahita Pakzad¹, Kasra Momeni¹ and Yoke K. Yap²; ¹Mechanical Engineering, Michigan Technology University, Houghton, Michigan; ²Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan.

9:30 AM FF3.4
Ultralow Harmonic Resonance in Zinc Oxide Nanowires. Nan Yao, David Cohen-Tanugi and Austin Akey; PRISM, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

9:45 AM FF3.5
Dynamic Behavior of Long-Range Ordered Carbon Nanotubes Chains. Luigi De Nardo¹ and Chiara Daraio²; ¹Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica "G. Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Milano, Italy; ²Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT) and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM FF3.6
Mechanistic Understanding of the Ductility of Thin Nanocrystalline Metal Films on Polymer Substrates. Teng Li^1,2, Zhao Zhang¹ and Benoit Michaux¹; ¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland; ²Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

10:45 AM FF3.7
The Effect of Film Thickness on the Strain-to-failure of Polymer-supported Metal Films. Nanshu Lu^1,2, Zhigang Suo¹ and Joost J. Vlassak¹; ¹SEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

11:00 AM FF3.8
Effects of Substrate Compliance and Yielding on Thin Film Delamination-Tests and Simulations. Neville Moody¹, E. David Reedy², Edmundo Corona², Marian Kennedy³, Megan Cordill⁴, David Adams² and David Bahr⁵; ¹Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California; ²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; ³Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; ⁴Erich Schmid Institute, Leoben, Austria; ⁵Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

11:15 AM FF3.9
Directly Accessing Plasticity and Hardening Energetics in nm-thick Copper Films on Silica by Atomic-level Partitioning of Interfacial Toughness. Ashutosh Jain¹, Saurabh Garg¹, Gopal G. Pethuraja¹, Narayanan Ravishankar¹, Michael Lane² and Ganapathiraman Ramanath¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; ²Chemistry Department, Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia.

11:30 AM FF3.10
Time- and Temperature-Dependent Behavior of Au-based Nanocomposite Thin Films. Kittisun Mongkolsuttirat, Mark J. McLean, Walter L. Brown and Richard P. Vinci; Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

11:45 AM FF3.11
Integration of Nano Scale Thin-film Samples with MEMS Actuators during Fabrication. Mehmet Yilmaz and Jeffrey W. Kysar; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York.

 

1:30 PM *FF4.1
Quantitative Size Effects in Deformation of Metallic Glasses Pillars. Jeff T. De Hosson, C. Q. Chen and Y. T. Pei; Applied Physics, Un. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

2:00 PM *FF4.2
The Nature of Deformation Twinning and a Model for its Size Dependence. Ju Li¹, Qian Yu², Zhi Wei Shan^3,2, Lin Xiao², Jun Sun², Xiao Xu Huang⁴ and Evan Ma^5,2; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ²State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, ShanXi, China; ³Hysitron Incorporated, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ⁴Riso National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Demark, Roskilde, Denmark; ⁵Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

2:30 PM FF4.3
Length Scale Dependence of Elastic Strain in Metallic Glasses by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Uday Vempati¹, Pavan K. Valavala¹, Michael L. Falk^1,2,3 and Todd Hufnagel¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; ²Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; ³Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

2:45 PM FF4.4
Size Matters: Nano-scale Plasticity in FIB-less Single Crystals and Nanocrystalline Metals. Julia R. Greer¹, Dongchan Jang¹, Michael J. Burek² and Ju-Young Kim¹; ¹Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; ²Nanotechnology Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM FF4.5
Modeling of Indentation and Pillar Compression in Nanolayered Al/SiC Composites. Guanlin Tang¹, Yu-Lin Shen¹, Danny Singh² and Nikhilesh Chawla²; ¹Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; ²School of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

3:45 PM FF4.6
Shock Response of Cu-Nb Nanolayer Composites. Timothy C. Germann, Richard G. Hoagland, Shengnian Luo, Nathan A. Mara, Amit Misra and Dennis L. Paisley; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

4:00 PM FF4.7
Effects of Chemistry and Microstructure on the Strengthening Behavior of Nanolayered Films. Aikaterini Bellou, Nicole R. Overman, Hussein M. Zbib and David F. Bahr; Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

4:15 PM FF4.8
Deformation Processes in Nano-scale Al-TiN Metal-ceramic Multilayers. Dhriti Bhattacharyya¹, Nathan A. Mara², Patricia Dickerson², Richard G. Hoagland³ and Amit Misra¹; ¹MPA-CINT, Los Alamos National Laboraotry, Los Alamos, New Mexico; ²MST-6, Los Alamos National Laboraotry, Los Alamos, New Mexico; ³MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboraotry, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

4:30 PM FF4.9
Uniform and Functionally Graded Oxide-Dispersion Strengthened Nanocomposite Thin Films. Stephen L. Farias¹, Patrick C. Breysse^2,1, Chia-Ling Chien^1,3 and Robert C. Cammarata^1,4; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; ²Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ³Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Lexington, Kentucky; ⁴Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

4:45 PM FF4.10
Analysis of the Mechanical Behavior and Dislocation Mechanisms in Trimetallic Nanolaminates. Firas Akasheh¹, Cory T. Overman², Hussein M. Zbib² and David F. Bahr²; ¹mechanical engineering, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama; ²School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

 

FF5.1
In-situ Strain/Stress Measurements during the Compression of GaAs Micropillars by High Resolution EBSD. Xavier Maeder, William M. Mook, Christoph Niederberger and Johann Michler; Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa, Thun, Switzerland.

FF5.2
Length Scale of Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Mechanical Stabilities of Metallic Glass. Hiroki Ushida, Shigenobu Ogata and Hajime Kimizuka; Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

FF5.3
Twining and Slip Activity in Magnesium <11-20> Single Crystal. Gyu Seok Kim^1,2, Sangbong Yi¹, Yuanding Huang¹, Norbert Huber¹, Marc Fivel² and Erica Lilleodden¹; ¹Institute of Materials Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; ²Science et Ingénierie des Materiaux et Procédés, (SIMaP-GPM2), Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France.

FF5.4
An In Situ Scanning Electron Microscopy Study of Size Dependent Mechanical Behaviors of Metallic Nanowires. Cheng Peng, Yang Lu, Yogeeswaran Ganesan, Yongjie Zhan and Jun Lou; Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

FF5.5
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.6
Effect of Oxygen and Hydrogen Concentration on Nanoindentation-induced Phase Transformations in Amorphous Silicon. Simon Ruffell, Jyotsna Vedi, Jodie E. Bradby and Jim S. Williams; Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

FF5.7
Mechanomutable Carbon Nanotube Arrays. Steven W. Cranford and Markus J. Buehler; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeirng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FF5.8
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.9
Dislocation Dynamics Simulations of Metal Nano- and Micro-Imprinting. Yunhe Zhang¹, Erik Van der Giessen² and Lucia Nicola¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; ²Department of Applied Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

FF5.10
Stain Rate and Creep Response of Nanocrystalline FCC Thin Films at Room Temperature. Nikhil Karanjgaokar² and Ioannis Chasiotis¹; ¹Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ²Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

FF5.11
Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured hard coating of ZrO2. Renat Sabirianov^1,2, Fereydoon Namavar^3,2, Wai-Ning Mei^1,2 and Xiao Cheng Zeng^4,2; ¹Physics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska; ²Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; ³Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation,, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; ⁴Department of Chemistry University of Nebraska, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.

FF5.12
The Mechanical Properties and Structure of Silica Nanowires via Simulations. Lilian P. Davila¹, Valerie J. Leppert¹ and Eduardo M. Bringa²; ¹School of Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California; ²Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.

FF5.13
Stiffness of Frictional Contact of Dissimilar Solids. Jinhaeng Lee¹, Yanfei Gao^1,2, Allan F. Bower³ and George M. Pharr^1,4; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; ²Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ³Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; ⁴Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

FF5.14
Transition Pathway Analysis of Homogeneous Dislocation Nucleation in a Perfect Silicon Crystal. Hasan A. Saeed, Satoshi Izumi, Shotaro Hara and Shinsuke Sakai; Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

FF5.15
Delamination Mechanics of a Rectangular Film in the Presence of Long-range Intersurface Forces. Guangxu Li and Kai-tak Wan; Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

FF5.16
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.17
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.18
In-situ X-ray Diffraction during Synthesis of Nanoporous Gold. Steven Van Petegem¹, Stefan Brandstetter¹, Robert Maass¹, Andrea M. Hodge^2,3, Juergen Biener³ and Helena Van Swygenhoven¹; ¹NUM/ASQ, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland; ²Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; ³Nanoscale Synthesis and Characterization Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

FF5.19
Nano-indentation Study of Three-dimensional Periodic Nanoframes. Jae-Hwang Lee^1,2, Steven Kooi² and Edwin L. Thomas^1,2; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FF5.20
Transferred to FF2.11

FF5.21
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.22
Reduction of Residual Stress in Density Modulated Thin Films. Arif S. Alagoz¹, Toh-Ming Lu² and Tansel Karabacak¹; ¹Department of Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; ²Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

FF5.23
Size Dependence of the Mechanical Properties of Au Nanoparticles. Leila Costelle, Vladimir Tuboltsev and Jyrki Raisanen; Department of Physics, Division of Materials Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

FF5.24
Nanoindentation-induced Phase Transformations in Silicon at Elevated Temperatures. Simon Ruffell¹, David Munoz-Paniagua², Jim S. Williams¹, Jodie E. Bradby¹ and Peter R. Norton³; ¹Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; ²National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ³Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

FF5.25
Nonlinear Large Deformation of Diamond Crystals during Indentation by DFT-Based FEM. Naohiro Toda², Hajime Kimizuka¹, Shigenobu Ogata¹, Yuan Zhong³ and Ting Zhu³; ¹Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan; ²Super Hard Materials Development Department, Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Itami, Hyogo, Japan; ³Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

FF5.26
Atomistic Mechanisms in Fracture of Graphene Sheets under Peeling Loading. Dipanjan Sen¹ and Markus J. Buehler²; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FF5.27
Formation of Nanostructures in Face Centered Cubic Metal Powder Particles Impacted at High Velocities. Yu Zou¹, Eric Irissou², Jean-Gabriel Legoux², Stephen Yue¹ and Jerzy A. Szpunar¹; ¹Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ²Industrial Materials Institute (IMI), National Research Council Canada (NRC), Boucherville, Quebec, Canada.

FF5.28
Mechanical Characterization of the Cement Line in Bovine Bone through Nanoindentation. Timothy Montalbano and Gang Feng; Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania.

FF5.29
Abstract Withdrawn
FF5.30
Rougness of Fracture Surfaces in a Model Nanosilicate Gel Determined from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Henrik Hemmen¹, Eduardo N. de Azevedo², Christian A. Nielsen¹, Knut Magnus¹, Ricardo E. de Souza³, Mario Engelsberg³ and Jon Otto Fossum¹; ¹Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ²Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência de Materiais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; ³Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

FF5.31
Effect of Alloying Elements on the Elastic Properties of γ-Ni and γ'-Ni3Al from First-principles Calculations. Yunjiang Wang¹ and Chongyu Wang^1,2; ¹Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; ²The International Center for Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shengyang, China.

FF5.32
Application of Strip Bending Test to Mechanical Characterization of Transfer-printed Metallic Film with Nano-scale Thickness. Jae-Hyun Kim, Hyun-Joo Choi, Sun-Ah Song, Hak-Joo Lee and Byung-Ik Choi; Nano-Mechanics, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Daejeon, Korea, South.

FF5.33
Abstract Withdrawn
FF5.34
Strength of Nanotubes, Filaments and Nanowires from Sonication Induced Scission. Yan Yan Huang, Tuomas Knowles and Eugene Terentjev; Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

FF5.35
Simulation of Plastic Deformation in Nanoparticles. Yoshiaki Kogure, Masao Doyama and Tadatoshi Nozaki; Teikyo University of Science and Technology, Uenohara, Yamanashi, Japan.

FF5.36
On Effective Indenters Used in Nanoindentation Data Analysis. Guanghui Fu¹, Tiesheng Cao² and Ling Cao¹; ¹LC Dental, Fremont, California; ²Ultrasonographic Diagnostics, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.

FF5.37
Modeling Adhesion Contact between a Compliant Cylinder and a Rigid Substrate. Jiayi Shi, Sinan Mueftue and Kai-tak Wan; Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

FF5.38
The Effects of Alloying Components on the Adhesion Strength of the Oxides on Carbon Steels. Chaewon Song¹, Seungmok Cho², Yoonhee Kang³, Jongsub Lee³ and Jinwoo Park¹; ¹Dep. of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei university, Seoul, Korea, South; ²Materials Science and Technology Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, South; ³Joining Research Group, Technical Research Laboratory, POSCO, Pohang, Korea, South.

FF5.39
Mechanical Properties of Colloidal Silica Particles after MeV Ion-Induced Shape Tailoring. Juan-Carlos Cheang-Wong and Ulises Morales; Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

FF5.40
Micromechanical Testing of Nanostructured NbTiNi Hydrogen Permeation Membranes. Tetsuya Kusuno¹, Yusuke Shimada¹, Mitsuhiro Matuda¹, Masaaki Otsu¹, Kazuki Takashima¹, Minoru Nishida², Kazuhiro Ishikawa³ and Kiyoshi Aoki³; ¹Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan; ²Kyushu University, FUKUOKA, Japan; ³Kitami Institute of Technology, HOKKAIDO, Japan.

FF5.41
Size Effects and Deformation Mechanisms in Multi-layer Metallic Composites with Coherent and Incoherent Interfaces. Ioannis N. Mastorakos and Hussein M. Zbib; School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

FF5.42
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.43
Abstract Withdrawn 

FF5.44
Abstract Withdrawn

FF5.45
Mechanical Properties of the Nanocrystalline High Pressure Phases of Silicon Si-III and Si-XII. Bianca Haberl, Jodie E. Bradby, Simon Ruffell, Naoki Fujisawa and Jim S. Williams; Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

 

8:30 AM *FF6.1/DD6.1
Measuring and Mapping Mechanical Properties with Nano-Scale Resolution. Robert F. Cook, Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

9:00 AM FF6.2/DD6.2
Imperfection and Size Dependent Ductility of Thin Freestanding Metallic Films. Thomas Pardoen¹, Charles Brugger¹, Michael Coulombier¹, Alexandre Boe¹, Marie-Stephane Colla¹, Joris Proost¹, Thierry J. Massart² and Jean-Pierre Raskin¹; ¹Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; ²Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

9:15 AM FF6.3/DD6.3
Improved In-situ On-chip Microelectromechanical Uniaxial Tensile Tester. Siddharth S. Hazra¹, Jack L. Beuth¹ and Maarten P. de Boer²; ¹Mechanical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; ²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:30 AM FF6.4/DD6.4
LIGA Nickel Composites for High Temperature MEMS Applications. Suresha Siriyara¹, Manel Haj-Taieb², Klaus Bade³, Jarir Aktaa² and Kevin Hemker¹; ¹Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; ²Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Materialforschung II, Karlsruhe, Germany; ³Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik, Karlsruhe, Germany.

9:45 AM FF6.5/DD6.5
Size-dependent Mechanical Properties of Polymer-nanowires Fabricated by Two-photon Lithography. Satoru Shoji¹, Sana Nakanishi¹, Tomoki Hamano¹ and Satoshi Kawata^1,2; ¹Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; ²Nanophotonics Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *FF6.6/DD6.6
Nano- and Micron-Scale Fracture and Fatigue: From MEMS to OLED Structures. Winston O. Soboyejo, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

11:00 AM FF6.7/DD6.7
Performance and Reliability of Ru-coated Microrelays. Maarten P. de Boer¹, David A. Czaplewski^1,3, Michael S. Baker¹, Steven L. Wolfley¹, Gary A. Patrizi¹, David R. Tallant² and James A. Ohlhausen²; ¹Microsystems Science, Technology and Components, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico; ²Materials Science and Engineering, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico; ³Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.

11:15 AM FF6.8/DD6.8
Investigating the Dynamics of Adhesion and Separation of Microscale Silicon Contacts. David S. Grierson¹, John C. Nguyen² and Kevin T. Turner¹; ¹UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; ²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

11:30 AM FF6.9/DD6.9
Mapping Nanoscale Wear Field by Combined Atomic Force Microscopy and Digital Image Correlation Techniques. Zhi-Hui Xu, Michael A. Sutton and Xiaodong Li; Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

11:45 AM FF6.10/DD6.10
Abstract Withdrawn

 

1:30 PM *FF7.1
Deformation Mechanisms of Nanostructured Metals Studied by In-situ Electron Microscopy. Gerhard Dehm, Materials Physics, Montanuniv. Leoben, Leoben, Austria; Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben, Austria.

2:00 PM FF7.2
In situ Characterization of the Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Oxide Nanowires using STM-STEM. Hye Jung Chang¹, A. Y. Borisevich¹, S. V. Kalinin², E. Strelcov³, A. Kolmakov³, B. Mirman⁴ and S. J. Pennycook¹; ¹Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ²Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ³Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois; ⁴Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.

2:15 PM FF7.3
In situ Nanoindentation Studies of Deformation Mechanisms in Nanoscale Al/Nb Multilayers. Nan Li¹, Jian Wang², Jianyu Huang³, Amit Misra², Haiyan Wang¹ and Xinghang Zhang¹; ¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; ²Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; ³Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2:30 PM FF7.4
Strain Gradients and Interface Strengths in NiAl-Mo Composites from 3D Spatially Resolved X-ray Microdiffraction. R. I. Barabash^1,2, H. Bei¹, Y. F. Gao^2,3, G. E. Ice¹ and E. P. George^1,2; ¹Materials Science and Technology Div., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, Tennessee; ²2. Materials Science and Engineering Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; ³3. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

2:45 PM FF7.5
Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements of High Resonance Frequency of Isolated Nanostructures. Tom Parker, Gwo-Ching Wang and Toh-Ming Lu; Physics Department and Center for Integrated Electronics, RPI, Troy, New York.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *FF7.6
Critical Issues in Making Small-Depth Mechanical Property Measurements by Nanoindentation with Dynamic Stiffness Measurement. George M. Pharr^1,2, Jeremy H. Strader¹ and Warren C. Oliver³; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; ²Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ³Agilent Technologies, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

4:00 PM FF7.7
An Analytical Solution for the Stress Field around an Elastoplastic Spherical Indentation/Contact. Gang Feng and Timothy Montalbano; Mechnical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania.

4:15 PM FF7.8
Lattice Misorientation Patterns and Strain Gradient Effects in Single Crystals under Spherical Indentation. Yanfei Gao^1,2, Bennett C. Larson³ and George M. Pharr^1,3; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; ²Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ³Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

4:30 PM FF7.9
Microcompression as a Quantitative Technique: A Case Study on Fused Silica. Erica Lilleodden and Alfred Cornec; Institute of Materials Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany.

4:45 PM FF7.10
Measuring the Elastic Modulus of Anisotropic Materials using Micro-compression Testings. Gan Yixiang¹, Daniel Kaufmann^1,2, Ruth Schwaiger² and In-suk Choi¹; ¹IMF II, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; ²IZBS, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

 

8:30 AM FF8.1
Microstructure, Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Mechanisms of Nanocrystalline Ni-50wt%Fe. Steven Van Petegem¹, Julien Zimmermann¹, Stefan Brandstetter^2,1, Xavier Sauvage³, Marc Legros², Bernd Schmitt⁴ and Helena Van Swygenhoven¹; ¹NUM/ASQ, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland; ²CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France; ³Faculte des Sciences, University of Rouen, Saint-Etienne du Rouvray, France; ⁴Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.

8:45 AM FF8.2
Grain Boundary Shear-migration Coupling: From Experiments to Modelling. Frederic Mompiou, Marc Legros and Daniel Caillard; cemes/cnrs, toulouse, France.

9:00 AM *FF8.3
Interface Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline Nanolaminates. Alan F. Jankowski and H.S. Tanvir Ahmed; Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

9:30 AM FF8.4
Deformation Crossover: From Nano to Meso Scales. Xun-Li Wang¹, Sheng Cheng², Alexandru D. Stoica¹, Joe A. Horton³, Chain T. Liu^3,4, Yang Ren⁵, Jon Almer⁵, Donald W. Brown⁶, Bjorn Clausen⁶, Peter K. Liaw² and Liang Zuo⁷; ¹Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; ³Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ⁴Mechanical Engineering Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; ⁵X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; ⁶Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, New Mexico; ⁷Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials, Northeast University, Shenyang, China.

9:45 AM FF8.5
De-twinning Mechanisms of Growth Twins in Face Centered Cubic Metals. Jian Wang¹, Nan Li², Osman Anderoglu², Xinghang Zhang², Amit Misra¹ and John Hirth¹; ¹LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico; ²Texas A&M, College Station, Texas.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM FF8.6
New Mechanisms for Ultrahigh Strength and Ductility in Nano-Twinned Metals. Zhaoxuan Wu¹, Yong-Wei Zhang^2,3 and David J. Srolovitz^3,4; ¹NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; ²Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; ³Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore, Singapore; ⁴Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, New York.

10:45 AM FF8.7
Nanotwins and Partial Dislocations in Ultrafine-grained Gold Wires. Effie. Y. H. Chew^1,5, Hui Kim Hui², C. Ferraris³, Yong Hao Zhao⁴, E. Lavernia⁴, Johnny Yeung⁵ and Chee Cheong Wong¹; ¹5School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; ²Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore; ³Laboratoire de Minéralogie, Paris, France; ⁴University of California Davis, California, California; ⁵Heraeus Materials Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore.

11:00 AM FF8.8
Yielding and Plasticity of Periodically-Twinned Nanowires in FCC Metals from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Chuang Deng and Frederic Sansoz; School of Engineering and Materials Science Program, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

11:15 AM FF8.9
Maximum Strength of Copper with Nano-scale Twins. Lei Lu, SYNL, Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang, China.

11:30 AM FF8.10
Temperature-Induced Amorphization in Periodically-Twinned III-V Zinc Blende Nanowires During Tensile Loading. Rassin Grantab and Vivek B. Shenoy; Mechanics of Solids, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

11:45 AM FF8.11
On the Role of Nanoscale Twins in the Deformation of fcc Metals: A Competition of Hardening or Softening Mechanisms. Karsten Albe¹, Alexander Stukowski¹ and Diana Farkas²; ¹Materials Modeling Division, Institute of Materials Science, Darmstadt, Germany; ²Materials Science and Engineering, VirigniaTech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

 

1:30 PM *FF9.1
Mechanical Behaviors of Bulk Nanostructured Metals Synthesized by Means of Dynamic Plastic Peformation (DPD). Ke Lu and Nairong Tao; SYNL, Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.

2:00 PM FF9.2
High-strain Rate Behavior of Nanocrystalline Tantalum Processed by High Pressure Torsion. Zhiliang Pan¹, Xiaolei Wu², Brian E. Schuster³, Laszlo J. Kecskes³ and Qiuming Wei¹; ¹Mechanical Engineering, University of North Carolinat at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina; ²Institute of Mechanics, CAS, Beijing, China; ³US Army Research Lab, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

2:15 PM FF9.3
Effect of Annealing on the Residual Stress in Electrodeposited Nanocrystalline Ni-W Alloys. Tiffany D. Ziebell and Christopher A. Schuh; Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:30 PM FF9.4
Atomic Scale Studies of Micro-Mechanisms related to Dynamic Failure in Ultra-Fine Grain Sized Nanocrystalline Cu. Avinash M. Dongare^1,2, Arunachalam M. Rajendran³, Bruce LaMattina⁴, Mohammed A. Zikry² and Donald W. Brenner¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; ²Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; ³Mechanical Engineering, University of Mississippi, Uinversity, Mississippi; ⁴U. S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

2:45 PM FF9.5
Abstract Withdrawn

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *FF9.6
The Mechanical Behavior on Nanoporous Au: Tailoring Properties by Changing Length Scale. Eike Epler, Burkhard Roos and Cynthia Volkert; Institite of Material Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

4:00 PM FF9.7
The Micromechanisms of Deformation in Nanoporous Gold. Rui Dou and Brian Derby; School of Materials, University of Manchester, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom.

4:15 PM FF9.8
Mechanical Behavior of Gold Nanofoams using Atomistic Simulations. Kedarnath Kolluri and Michael J. Demkowicz; Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:30 PM FF9.9
Anelastic Behavior of Nanocrystalline Nickel and Nanoporous Metals. Nicolas Briot¹, Jochen Lohmiller^1,2, Christoph Eberl², Oliver Kraft^2,3 and T. John Balk¹; ¹Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; ²Institut für Zuverlässigkeit von Bauteilen und Systemen, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ³Institut für Materialforschung II, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

4:45 PM FF9.10
Porosity Dependence of Elastic Constants of Nanoporous Silicon. Gazi N. Aliev, Bernhard Goller and Paul A. Snow; Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.

 

FF10.1
Transferred to FF12.11 

FF10.2
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.3
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.4
Micromechanical Modeling of Layer-by-Layer Coated Electrospun Nanofiber Mats for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells. Meredith Silberstein¹, Mary C. Boyce¹, J. N. Ashcraft² and Chia-Ling Pai²; ¹Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FF10.5
Nanomechanical Characterization of Raspberry-like Core-shell Nanocomposite. Xinnan Wang¹, Li Tao², Xiaodong Li² and Qian Wang²; ¹North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota; ²University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

FF10.6
Influences of Crystallization Behavior of Poly(L-Lactide) and Morphologies of Hydroxyapatite Particles on the Mechanical Properties of Co-Electrospun Scaffolds. Fei Peng¹, Montgomery T. Shaw^1,2, James R. Olson³ and Mei Wei¹; ¹Department of Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; ²Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; ³Teleflex Medical, Coventry, Connecticut.

FF10.7
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.8
Deformation of Nanocrystalline Mg by Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Dong-Hyun Kim¹, M. V. Manuel¹, F. Ebrahimi¹, J. S. Tulenko² and S. R. Phillpot¹; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; ²Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

FF10.9
Atomistic Simulations of the Mechanical Response of Copper/Polybutadiene Joints under Stress. Fidel O. Valega Mackenzie and Barend J. Thijsse; Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

FF10.10
Mechanical Behaviors of Nanoporous Carbon. Mi Xi and Yunfeng Shi; Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

FF10.11
Localized Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Nanocomposites using Novel Micromechanical Devices. Yogeeswaran Ganesan¹, Yang Lu¹, Cheng Peng¹, Hao Lu¹, Roberto Ballarini², Boris Yakobson¹ and Jun Lou¹; ¹Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas; ²Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

FF10.12
Size Effects in Nanomechanical Behavior of Protein Materials. Sinan Keten and Markus Buehler; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FF10.13
Abstract Withdrawn 

FF10.14
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.15
Computational Simulations of Blast Response of Biological Cell. Guoxin Cao and Namas Chandra; university of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

FF10.16
Correlating Nanoparticle Dispersion to Surface Mechanical Properties of TiO2/Polymer Composites. Yongyan Pang, Stephanie S. Watson, Aaron M. Foster, Chang Kwon Moon and Li-Piin Sung; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

FF10.17
Temperature Variation in Energy Absorption System Functionalized by Nanomaterials. Aijie Han¹, Yu Qiao², Weiyi Lu², Venkata K. Punyamurtula² and Zhongyuan Sun¹; ¹Chemistry, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas; ²Structural Engineering, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California.

FF10.18
Mechanics of Silica-PDMS Nanocomposites. Adrian Camenzind¹, Thomas Schweizer², Michael Sztucki³ and Sotiris E. Pratsinis¹; ¹Particle Technology Laboratory, Mechanical & Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Institute of Polymers, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ³European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France.

FF10.19
Multiscale Computer Simulation of Tensile and Compressive Strain in Polymer-Coated Silica Aerogels. Brian S. Good, Materials Division, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

FF10.20
Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of High Nanoparticle Loading Fraction Polymer Nano-Composites. Theodore Kramer¹, Jeffrey Kysar² and Irving P. Herman¹; ¹Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York.

FF10.21
Novel Nanostructured Metals by High Rate Severe Plastic Deformation. Shashank Shekhar, Jiazhao Cai and Ravi Shankar; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

FF10.22
High-Throughput Optimization of Adhesion in Multilayers by Superlayer Gradient. Sergey Grachev, Coraly Cuminatto, Alexander Mehlich, Jan-Dirk Kamminga, Elin Sondergard and Etienne Barthel; Saint-Gobain Recherche, Aubervilliers, France.

FF10.23
Electrospun Polymer/MWCNTs Nanofiber Reinforced Composites. Elif Ozden, Yusuf Menceloglu and Melih Papila; Material Science and Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.

FF10.24
Improving the Crack Resistance of Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) Films on Polymeric Substrates using Ductile Metal Interlayers. Eunhye Kim, Chan-woo Yang, Kyeong-hwi Min and Jin-woo Park; Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, South.

FF10.25
Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of the Polymer Materials with High Spatial Resolution. Maxim P. Nikiforov¹, S. Gah², L. T. Germinario³, Stephen Jesse¹, R. J. Composto² and Sergei V. Kalinin¹; ¹CNMS, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ³Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

FF10.26
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.27
Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites by Nanoindentation and Influence of Nanoparticulate Filler on the Viscolastic Response. Jiri Nohava² and Nicholas Randall¹; ¹CSM Instruments, Needham, Massachusetts; ²CSM Instruments, Peseux, Switzerland.

FF10.28
Training Effect in Artificial Muscle using Polyaniline. Hikaru Hashimoto¹, Kazuo Tominaga¹, Wataru Takashima² and Keiichi Kaneto¹; ¹Biological Functions and Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Wakamatsu-ku Hibikino 2-4, Japan; ²Research Center for Advanced Eco-fitting Technology, Kyushu Institute of technology, Kitakyushu, Japan.

FF10.29
Transferred to FF9.4

FF10.30
A Comprehensive Study of Cuticle Organisation at Different Hierarchical Levels in Functionally Differentiated Parts of the Exoskeleton of the Edible Crab Cancer pagurus . Keerthika Balasundaram, Helge Fabritius and Dierk Raabe; MPIE, Düsseldorf, Germany.

FF10.31
A Mechanically Actuated Plasmonic Nanoparticle Fluid. Rama R. Bhattacharjee², Ruipeng Li^1,2, Emmanuel P. Giannelis² and Aram Amassian¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; ²Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

FF10.32
Deformation Behavior of Nanocrystalline Co-Cu Alloys. Motohiro Yuasa¹, Hiromi Nakano², Kota Kajikawa¹, Takumi Nakazawa¹ and Mamoru Mabuchi¹; ¹Department of Energy Science and Technology, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ²Cooperative Reserach Facility Center, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan.

FF10.33
Adhesion Influence of Diamond Coatings on WC-Co Turning Inserts for High Performance Machining Applications. Humberto Gomez^1,4, Feng Qin², Ashok Kumar¹, Kevin Chou² and Bob Johnson³; ¹Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; ²Mechanical Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; ³Seki Technotron USA, Santa Clara, California; ⁴Ingenieria Mecanica, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.

FF10.34
Effect of Nitrogen Doping on the Mechanical Properties of Sol-gel Prepared TiO2 Thin Films: A Nanoindentation Study. Murat Kurtoglu^1,2, Travis S. Longenbach^1,2 and Yury Gogotsi^1,2; ¹Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ²Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

FF10.35
Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Boron Carbide Ceramics by Methanol Washed Powder. Kyoung Hun Kim¹, Jong Pil Ahn^1,2, Joo Seok Park¹, Jae Hong Chae¹, Hyung Sun Kim² and Sung Min So^1,2; ¹KICET, Seoul, Korea, South; ²Inha university, Incheon, Korea, South.

FF10.36
Dispersion Rheology of Carbon Nanotubes in a Polymer Matrix. Yan Yan Huang, Samit Ahir and Eugene Terentjev; Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

FF10.37
Variable Elastic-Plastic Properties of the Grain Boundaries and Their Effect on the Macroscopic Flow Stress of Nano-Crystalline Metals. Malgorzata Lewandowska, Romuald Dobosz and Krzysztof J. Kurzydlowski; Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

FF10.38
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.39
The Measurement of Mechanical Properties on Chars with Nanoclays Using Nanoindentation. Seongchan Park and Miriam Rafailovich; Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.

FF10.40
A Comparison of Dry Sliding Wear of Conventional and Nanocrystalline Eutectic Al-Si. Ian Baker¹, Michael T. Gwaze¹, Ye Sun¹, Adam T. Dohner¹, Annika Grosse¹, Francis E. Kennedy¹ and Paul R. Munroe²; ¹Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; ²Electron Microscope Unit, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

FF10.41
Independent Characterization of Second Phase Particle in a Dual Phase Material using Nanoindentation. Akbar Aftabi Gilvan, Vis Madhavan and Mahdi Saket Kashani; Industrial and Manufacturing, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

FF10.42
Structural Carbon Aerogels for High Temperature Thermal Insulation. Wendell Rhine, Shannon White, Nicholas A. Zafiropoulos, Redouane Begag, Wenting Dong and Irene Melnikova; Aspen Aerogels, Northborough, Massachusetts.

FF10.43
Theoretical Modeling of Isostructural Decomposition in Cubic M(1-x)AlxN (M=Ti, Cr, Sc, Hf). Igor A. Abrikosov and Bjoern Alling; Department of Physics and Measurement Technology (IFM), Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.

FF10.44
Abstract Withdrawn

FF10.45
Thermomechanical Behavior of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Composites with Ideal Morphology. Hulya Cebeci, Roberto Guzman de Villoria and Brian L. Wardle; MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FF10.46
Finite Element Modeling of Nanoindentation of Nanowires on a Deformable Flat Substrate. Davood Askari and Gang Feng; Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, Wayne, Pennsylvania.

8:30 AM *FF11.1
Electrical, Mechanical, and Thermal Damage Modes during High Current Stressing of Damascene Copper Interconnects. Robert R. Keller, David T. Read and Roy H. Geiss; Materials Reliability Division, NIST, Boulder, Colorado.

9:00 AM FF11.2
Computational Studies of Effect of Electron Doping on the Hardness of Aluminum Magnesium Boride. Scott P. Beckman, Material Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

9:15 AM FF11.3
Modeling the Sliding Wear of Single Asperity Copper/Aluminum Contacts Under Electromagnetic Stress with Atomistic+Continuum Multi-Scale Simulations. John W. Crill, Douglas L. Irving and Don W. Brenner; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

9:30 AM FF11.4
Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Nano Scale Al Thin Films using a Resonance System. Seungmin Hyun¹, Jungmin Park¹, Hak-Joo Lee¹, Byung-Ik Choi¹ and Walter L. Brown²; ¹Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, Daejeon, Korea, South; ²Lehigh Unviersity, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

9:45 AM FF11.5
Thermal Stability and Stress Relaxation of Nanostructured Cu-Nb-based Wires. Jean-Baptiste Dubois¹, Ludovic Thilly¹, Pierre-Olivier Renault¹, Florence Lecouturier² and Marco Di Michiel³; ¹PHYMAT, University of Poitiers, Futuroscope, France; ²LNCMI, Toulouse, France; ³ESRF, Grenoble, France.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM FF11.6
Tuning the Mechanical Properties of a Nanoporous Gold. Hai-Jun Jin¹, Lilia Kurmanaeva¹ and Joerg Weissmueller^1,2; ¹Institute of nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²Technische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

10:45 AM FF11.7
Hydridation and De-hydridation Behavior of Nanoporous Palladium-Nickel Ultra-thin Films. Wen-Chung Li and T. John Balk; Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

11:00 AM FF11.8
Multi-scale Simulation on H embrittlement and H-Pd interactions. Hieu H. Pham¹ and Tahir Cagin^1,2; ¹Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; ²Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas.

11:15 AM FF11.9
Nanocomposites with Stimuli-Responsive Mechanical Behavior. Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan¹, Jeffrey R. Capadona^2,3, Dustin J. Tyler^2,3, Stuart J. Rowan^1,2,4 and Christoph Weder^1,5; ¹Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; ²Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; ³Rehabilitation Research and Development, Louis Stokes Cleveland DVA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; ⁴Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; ⁵Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Route de l'Ancienne Papeterie, Marly, Switzerland.

11:30 AM FF11.10
Anisotropic Strain and Training of Conducting Polymer Artificial Muscles under High Tensile Stresses. Keiichi Kaneto, Hikaru Hashimoto, Kazuo Tominaga, Tomokazu Sendai and Wataru Takashima; Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology,, Kitakyushu, Japan.

11:45 AM FF11.11
Electrochemically-Controlled Mechanical Properties of a Polymer Nanocomposite. Daniel J. Schmidt¹, Fevzi C. Cebeci^1,2, Ilke Kalcioglu², Samantha G. Wyman¹, Christine Ortiz², Krystyn J. Van Vliet^2,3 and Paula T. Hammond¹; ¹Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ³Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

1:30 PM *FF12.1
Multiscale Modeling of Nanoceramic Composites. William Curtin¹, E. Byrne², M. A. McCarthy², F. Pavia¹ and Z. H. Xia³; ¹Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; ²University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; ³University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

2:00 PM FF12.2
Mechanical and Interfacial Properties of Individual Carbon Nanofibers in Epoxy Matrices. Tanil Ozkan¹, Qi Chen² and Ioannis Chasiotis²; ¹Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ²Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

2:15 PM FF12.3
Carbon Nanotube Pullout from a Diamond Matrix. Fabio Pavia and William Curtin; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

2:30 PM FF12.4
Direct Measurement of the Matrix-Filler Interactions in A Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposite and Their Relationship to the Composite's Macroscopic Mechanical Performance. Minzhen Cai¹, Sarah K. Cotts², David E. Kranbuehl² and Hannes C. Schniepp¹; ¹Department of Applied Science, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; ²Department of Chemistry, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

2:45 PM FF12.5
Design of Co-Continuous Composite Materials for Stiffness, Strength and Energy Dissipation. Lifeng Wang and Mary C. Boyce; Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM FF12.6
The Mechanical Response of Ag-Based Metallic Nanoinks. Andrew J. Birnbaum¹, Ray Auyeung¹, Ji Wen Wang¹, Kathy Wahl², Maxim Zalalutdinov³ and Alberto Pique¹; ¹Materials Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Lab, Washington, District of Columbia; ²Chemistry Division, Naval Research Lab, Washington, District of Columbia; ³Acoustics Division, Naval Research Lab, Washington, District of Columbia.

3:45 PM FF12.7
Heterogeneity in Epoxy Nanocomposites Initiates Crazing: Significant Improvements in Fatigue Resistance and Toughening. Iti Srivastava¹, Yue-Feng Zhu², Catalin R. Picu¹ and Nikhil A. Koratkar¹; ¹Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

4:00 PM FF12.8
Electrochemically-Induced Percolative Mechanical Properties of Polyaniline Nanofiber-Polymer Composites. Fevzi C. Cebeci¹, Daniel J. Schmidt¹, Christine Ortiz² and Paula T. Hammond¹; ¹Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:15 PM FF12.9
The Mechanical Properties of Brush-Coated Nanoparticles in Homopolymer Matrix. Sascha A. Pihan¹, Sebastian G. Emmerling^1,2, Ruediger Berger¹ and Jochen S. Gutmann^1,2; ¹Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany; ²Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

4:30 PM FF12.10
Disclosing Mechanical Properties of Composite Magnetic Nanoparticles, Antonio Rinaldi^1,2, Veronica Salgueirino³, Miguel Correa-Duarte³, Silvia Licoccia¹, Enrico Traversa^1,4, Ana Davila-Ibanez³, Pedro Peralta² and Karl Sieradzki²; ¹NAST center and Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Univ Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; ²MAE, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; ³Departamentos de Física Aplicada e Química-Física, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; ⁴4International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan.

4:45 PM FF12.11
Modeling of Interfacial Friction in Amorphous Carbon/Nanotube Nanocomposites. Lili Li^1,3, Zhenhai Xia¹, W. A. Curtin² and Yanqing Yang³; ¹The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; ²Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; ³School of Materials, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China.