The Contact Mechanics Workshop is a two day workshop held from May 3rd-4th, 2017 at Rice University. The workshop is organized around three technical sessions: material scale contact phenomena, tribology scale surface interactions, and macro scale contact mechanics. More information will be available soon. If interested in attending, please contact Matthew Brake (brake@rice.edu)
Tentative list of invited speakers:
- Melih Eriten, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Alan Bolwing, University of Texas at Arlington
- Yu-Lin Shen, University of New Mexico
- Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Greg Sawyer, University of Florida
- BJ Fregly, University of Florida
- Tim Rupert, University of California Irvine
- George Pharr, Texas A&M
- Andreas Polycarpo, Texas A&M
- Somuri Prasad, Sandia National Laboratories
- Rob Flicek, Sandia National Laboratories
- Jonatan Sierra-Suarez, Sandia National Laboratories
- Ned Thomas, Rice University
- Matthew Brake, Rice University
- Fred Higgs, Rice University
- Zack Cordero, Rice University
- Rob Jackson, Auburn University
- Dan Marghitu, Auburn University
Contact Mechanics Workshop, May 3-4, 2017