Areas of Research
Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics.
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Projects of current special interest include:
- Battery modeling
- Time dependent phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers
Research Group
- Timothy Carlson : Multiphysics battery modeling
- Dr. Paras Kumar : Liquid crystal elastomer modeling, phase field fracture
Former Members
- Prof. Aurélie Azoug : Low temperature elastomer modeling
- Dr. Ahmed Bakhaty : Multiscale modeling of heart valves
- Prof. David Bindel : Modeling of MEMS resonators anchor loss
- Prof. Elizabeth Dresselhaus : Theory and experimental investigations of the physics of knitted materials
- Dr. Gerd Brandstetter : Modeling of electrostatic chucking (MS Thesis Report)
- Dr. Ali El Hajj Chehade : Liquid crystal elastomer modeling
- Dr. Paul Drazin : Theory of hybrid testing methods (MS Thesis Report)
- Dr. Wael Elhaddad : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Regional damage assessment workflows
- Prof. Michael Gardner : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Stochastic hazards modeling
- Dr. Stevan Gavrilovic : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Regional hazards modeling
- Christian Gebauer : Shape Memory Alloy Modeling
- Prof. Garrett Hall : Shape Memory Alloy Modeling
- Lecturer (Asst.Prof.) Ajay Bagalore Harish : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Hydrodynamic modeling of storm surge and tsunami loading
- Dr. Wei He : MEMS resonator optimization
- Dr. Rainer Heinen : Upper bounds computations in shape memory alloy modeling
- Dr. Wayne Falk : Modeling of reinforcement buckling
- Dr. Arnd Flatten : Energy Release Rates in Viscoelastic Media
- Prof. Eric Kasper : Shape Memory Alloy Modeling
- Prof. Sven Klinkel : Structural modeling with 3-D constitutive relations; Simulation of Single Crystal Silicon Structures
- Prof. Tsuyoshi Koyama : Modeling of MEMS resonators large scale computing
- Prof. Laura Lowes : Finite Element Modeling of Damage in Reinforced Concrete
- Prof. Kranthi Mandadapu : Soft glassy rheology
- Dr. Linus Mettler : Finite deformation anisotropic plasticity
- Dr. Paul Mihalic : Inverse Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity
- Dr. Sunny Mistry : Modeling and experimentation of strain crystallizing polymers
- Dr. Toby Mitchell : Isogeometric modeling
- Dr. Giuseppe Montella : Modeling of recycled rubber materials
- Dr. Anton Muehlemann : Crystallographic theory of martensite in low Carbon steels
- Javi Gual Navarro : Probabilistic learning on manifolds
- Prof. Thao (Vicky) Nguyen : Viscoelastic VIB modeling of fast fracture; Material Force Methods
- Tobias Noesekabel : Time dependent ABC modeling
- Prof. Stefanie Reese : Nonlinear Viscoelasticity
- Dr. Koki Sagiyama : ABC modeling in elastodynamics
- Dr. Stephen Smeulders : Micromechanical Damage Mechanics in Elastomers
- Dr. Aakash Bangalore Satish : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Probabilistic modeling in natural hazards
- Dr. Prashanth Vijalapura : Diffusion in Solids; Time stepping in highly non-linear coupled problems
- Prof. Chaofeng (Charles) Wang : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Nonlinear soil modeling and AI methods in model generation
- Prof. Sang-Ri Yi : Natural hazards engineering (SimCenter): Probabilistic modeling in natural hazards engineering
- Prof. Matt Zahr : Simulation of a nanoresonator ensemble
- Dr. Miklos Zoller : Battery modeling, previously Relaxed microsphere models with inelastic effects
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