Organizers:
- Nima Rahbar, WPI
Description:
Self-healing of materials and structures is the process of restoration of mechanical functionality utilizing various mechanisms ranging from active mineralization and polymerization to ordered or disordered self-assembly. It is now a highly topical issue in engineering mechanics of soft and hard matter because of its potential impact on safe and sustainable engineering design. While various disciplines and communities have addressed this challenging topic, the future of this emerging field will strongly depend on translational moves between disciplines, incl. chemistry, physics, materials sciences, engineering mechanics, structural engineering, geotechnics, and biomechanics. This symposium’s focus is dedicated to the Mechanics of Self-Healing Materials and Structures, which seeks contributions, both theoretical and experimental in nature, that explicitly address the coupling between self-healing and mechanics of materials. Topics of particular interest include modeling open self-healing thermodynamic systems, surface vs. volume growth, innovative experimental methods to assess the mechanics of self-healing, and upscaling of atomic and/or microscopic phenomena to the structural engineering scale.
Topics of interest:
- Physics and Chemistry of Materials,
- Statistical Mechanics