Failure of Small-Scale Structures

NSF的资金将被拖欠，用于支付研究生、博士后研究人员、年轻教师和特邀演讲者的注册和旅行费用。这次研讨会的主要目标是通过为科学家、工程师、学术界和工业界之间的杰出技术知识交流提供一个论坛来促进科学，从而在工作场所和社会中找到解决方案。与会者代表了工业界、学术界和政府，他们的技术兴趣各不相同。研讨会重点讨论了小规模结构(柔性和半导体电子系统、致动器、共振悬臂、生物系统、燃料电池、MEMS器件等)中的故障，并考虑了可能的故障机制的组合。主题包括：小型生物系统的断裂和变形、纳米线/纳米管、薄膜和薄膜结构、微电子学、MEMS和微柱。

NSF funds will be used in arrears to help defray the costs of registration and travel of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, young faculty and invited speakers. The primary goal of this symposium is the promotion of science by providing a forum for the outstanding exchange of technical knowledge among scientists, engineers, academia and industry leading to solutions in the workplace and in society. Attendees represented industry, academia and government, with a variety of technical interests. The symposium focused on failures in small scale structures (flexible and semiconductor electronic systems, actuators, resonating cantilever, biological systems, fuel cells, MEMS devices, etc) and considered combinations of possible failure mechanisms. Topics included: fracture and deformation of small-scale biological systems, nano-wires/nano-tubes, thin films and film structures, microelectronics, MEMS and micro-pillars.