Individual Goals for Winter Quarter 2008-2009

Aaron

• 4x4 inch patches
• new designs for bilayer suspension on Haas
• video of bilayer adhesion
• characterize roughness of surfaces
• submission of short good journal paper of bilayer
• analysis of bilayer hierarchy

Daniel

• submit single wedge paper (draft in two weeks)
• help with bilayer publication (submit this quarter)
• milk ginel's thesis for pubs
• analytical model paper?

Kim

• work on transfer from labview to xpc
• work on wet adhesion combining spines and wedges
• learn fabrication techniques for wedges and spines
• think about possible publications

Noe

• work with haneesh on van der waals simulation
• work with aaron on stiffness analysis of stuff
• brainstorm list of ideas for publication

Paul

• pass quals
• LANL system running (newport stage, paul electronics)
• publication based on selective particle adhesion
• learn fabrication techniques for wedges

Individual Goals for Autumn Quarter 2008-2009

Aaron

Daniel

• publication submission for single wedge measurement
• setup of camera and capture of stick slip data

Kim

• investigations of microwedge adhesives under wet conditions
• setup of new ways and stage setup and XPC

Noe

• microwedge in LS-DYNA with large deformation and adhesive limits
• working large deformation simulation
• working adhesive simulation
• integration of above two models
• XPC stage setup and development

Paul

• mathematical model for contact and adhesion between wedges and spherical particles
• building LANL adhesive test bed
• study for quals 3rd week Jan 09