Instabilites in Soft Mechanics II

Presentations

• Tunable Aerodynamics via Snap-Through and Buckling in Origami and Kirigami

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: Nain R., Marzin T., & Ramananarivo S. (2024). Tunable drag drop via flow-induced snap-through in origami. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1000 (A8).
  Marzin T., Le Hay K., de Langre E., Ramananarivo S. (2022). Flow-induced deformation of kirigami sheets. Physical Review Fluids, 7 (2), 023906.

  Presenters

  • Sophie Ramananarivo

    • LadHyX

  Authors

  • Sophie Ramananarivo

    • LadHyX

  • Tom Marzin

    • Cornell University

  • Rishabh Nain

    • Ecole Polytechnique

  • Agathe Schmider

    • LadHyX

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• How spiders anchor their webs to water.

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Ravi Schwartz

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Ravi Schwartz

    • Rutgers University

  • Hunter King

    • Rutgers University - Camden

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• Reprogrammable auxeticity in chiral multistable metamaterials

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Shujia Chen

    • McGill University

  Authors

  • Shujia Chen

    • McGill University

  • Damiano Pasini

    • McGill University

  • Lei Wu

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• Buckling and Beating of Motile Microtubules in Soft Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Isabel Ruffin

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Isabel Ruffin

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Experimental Analysis of Pressurized Hollow Cylinders Under Self-weight

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Nikolaj Olsen

    • Aarhus University

  Authors

  • Nikolaj Olsen

    • Aarhus University

  • Morten Andersen

    • Aarhus University

  • Holger Kristensen

  • Matteo Pezzulla

    • Aarhus University

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• Peel-to-Roll Transition in Sticky Blisters: Toward Hetereneous Adhesion from Homogeneous Interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Anupam Pandey

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Anupam Pandey

    • Syracuse University

  • Sunghwan Jung

    • Cornell University

  • Teng Zhang

    • Syracuse University

  • Amit Pandey

  • Pei Ren

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• Programmable Bistability of Wall-Anchored Elastic Fibers in Microfluidics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Abhineet Rajput

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Abhineet Rajput

    • Yale University

  • Amir Pahlavan

    • Yale University

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• Crack propagation in swelling gels

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Rishabh Rishabh

    • Boston University

  Authors

  • Rishabh Rishabh

    • Boston University

  • Abigail Plummer

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• Inflation of plastic tubes: Yielding and strain hardening affect the mode and growth of the bulge instability

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Fatemeh Rouhani

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Fatemeh Rouhani

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Jack Wurster Pazin

  • Abinava Ganesh

  • Qihan Liu

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Sachin Velankar

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Diffusive buckling fronts in cubic lattices

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jochem Meijer

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Jochem Meijer

    • University of Chicago

  • Faadil Shaik

  • Heinrich Jaeger

    • University of Chicago

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• Multiple Actuation Modes in LCE Films

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • James Waters

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • James Waters

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Anna Balazs

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Mechanical instability of fluid membranes as a route to uniform soft capsules

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Seungwoo Shin

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Seungwoo Shin

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Federico Cao

    • Brown University

  • Robert Pelcovits

    • Brown University

  • Thomas Powers

    • Brown University

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• On echelon crack formation in soft solids

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Olivia Ward

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Olivia Ward

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Aditya Kumar

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