One-day workshop - Nanomechanics of defects, metastructures and composites 

The evolution of modern technologies strongly relies on the discovery and development of new materials.  For both structural and functional materials, the mechanical properties, deformation mechanisms and structural stability are the foundation in the practical application.  By tailoring the macro/micro/nano/atomic structures, researchers developed materials on the brink. 

As more and more novel materials are discovered and reported, people start noticing that the theories of mechanics play a profound role during the supreme property exploration. The structure – property relationships are theorized for the crystals and metamaterials development. Through state-of-the art structural characterization, researchers obtained rationalized understanding of heterophase boundaries, 1D/2D crystal defects crossing length scales. Meanwhile, researchers developed continuum models and MD simulations for crystal plasticity, deformation twinning and dislocation motions.  

This one-day workshop will gather Hong Kong researchers working on experimental and theoretical areas of mechanics and material science. We exchange our ideas and share our recent works, so that the HK theoretical and applied mechanics and material science community can foster crossing-institute collaboration in future.   

Organizers: 
Xian Chen (MAE), Yanguang Zhou (MAE), Qing Chen (MAE), Zhigang Li (MAE) \

Rundown: 

Time: 9:30 - 10am   

Speaker: Mingxin HUANG  (University of Hong Kong)

Revisit TWIP and TRIP effects on strain hardening of high-strength steels

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am   

Speaker: Peng HUA (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Crystalline-amorphous NiTi nanocomposites with ultrahigh fatigue resistance

Time: 11:00 - 11:30 am   

Speaker: Yuan MA   (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Modeling and experimental study of advanced human-machine mechanical interface

Time: 11:30 - 12:00 nn  

Speaker: Haiming YAO (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Biomimetic Mechanics and Materials
 

Time: 2:00 - 2:30 pm 

Speaker: Yong YANG (City University of Hong Kong)

Design of multifunctional metals through lattice distortion

Time: 2:30 - 3:00 pm

Speaker: Jinglei YANG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Microcapsule Mechanics

Time: 3:00 - 3:30 pm

Speaker: Yang LU  (City University of Hong Kong)         

Diamond nanomechanics and elastic strain engineering

Time: 4:30 - 5:00 pm

Speaker: Yangyang CHEN (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discrete transformation elasticity: An analytical approach for inverse design of lattice metamaterials

Time: 5:00 - 5:30 pm

Speaker: Haihui RUAN (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Topics in glass and Mechano-electrochemical systems