The collaborative team including PI Shelby Hutchens and CoPI Alison Dunn as well as graduate students Sri Sridhar, Shaobo Zhan, Nabila Ali, and NSF-funded undergraduate intern Grace Federici attended the SES Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. There they presented on recent efforts in advancing the Y-shaped cutting technique (a how to!) and quantification of surfaces produced during cutting. The long term goal is to try to link the damage produced at the surface with the conditions during the cutting and eventually try to learn how this might affect the cut surfaces’ frictional responses.

Take a look at some of our instagram videos demonstrating research techniques used in this project.

Matt Milner and Prof. Hutchens speak at APS March Meeting

Matt gave a talk entitled “Void Collapse as a Platform for Observing the Effects of Strain Stiffening on Creasing,” sharing his recent results on the surface tension-driven collapse of cavities within silicon elastomers. Prof. Hutchens gave a talk entitled “Injection initiated fracture in soft solids,” presenting some of Steven Yang’s recent cavitation rheology work in… Continue reading Matt Milner and Prof. Hutchens speak at APS March Meeting

DYFP 2015

Prof. Hutchens gives a talk entitled “Considerations for Cavitation Rheology” discussing some of our recent understanding of the cavitation rheology soft materials characterization technique (e.g., blowing bubbles with needles!).