David Henann, Brown University

Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University

Amorphous, particulate systems – such as granular materials, slurries, pastes, dense suspensions, emulsions, foams, colloids, and glasses – appear frequently in engineering as well as in everyday life. When deformed, these materials can display phenomena that challenge the formulation of constitutive models – e.g., shear banding and localization, size-effects and nonlocality, history effects and hysteresis, rate-dependence, and pore-fluid effects. This symposium will bring together researchers working towards more predictive constitutive models for these material systems. Topics of interest include plasticity theories, rheology, internal state variable based modeling, homogenization approaches, as well as discrete modeling and experiments that inform constitutive models.

Keywords: infrastructure, solids and structure