Hutchens Research Lab

Category: Talks

  • Cut Surfaces Presented at 2023 SES Annual Conference

    Cut Surfaces Presented at 2023 SES Annual Conference

    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.
  • Prof. Hutchens gives departmental seminar at the University of Iowa

    Prof. Hutchens gives departmental seminar at the University of Iowa

    As part of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department’s departmental seminar series, Prof. Hutchens gave a talk on injection-initiated fracture, also known as the cavitation rheology technique. She presented on how to obtain fracture energy for ultrasoft materials, having < kPa moduli, as detailed in her recent Soft Matter article with postdoc advisor Al Crosby. She then showed recent results on quantifying and predicting crack morphologies obtained by undergraduate researcher Steven Yang.

    U-Iowa Departmental Seminar Series