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.
