People
Faculty
Philippe H. Geubelle
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Email geubelle@nospam6574b294c10d2.illinois.edu
Title Bliss Professor and Head
Department Department of Aerospace Engineering
Office 306F Talbot Lab
Phone (217) 244-7648
Current Grad Students
Angel Agrawal
Title MS student in AE
Department Mesoscale analysis of transverse cracking in composite laminates
David Brandyberry
Title PhD student in AE
Department Multiscale analysis and design of electrets
Elyas Goli
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Title PhD student in CEE
Department Multiphysics modeling of composite processing based on rapid polymerization
Isaiah Kim
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Email hdkim1@nospam6574b294c2f84.illinois.edu
Title PhD student in AE
Department Impact response of granular media
Anthony Klepacki
Title MS student in ME
Department Mesoscale IGFEM analysis of composite failure
Chen Zhang
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Title PhD student in AE
Department Molecular tailoring of delamination properties of thin films using self-assembled monolayers: Multiscale modeling
Kedi Zhang
Title PhD student in ECE
Department Computational analysis and design of electro-magnetic composites
Alumni
Alumni Ph.D.
Alejandro M. Aragón
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Title PhD, CEE, 2010
Department Computational design of microvascular materials for active cooling
M. Scot Breitenfeld
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Title PhD, AE, 2014
Department Quasi-static non-ordinary state-based peridynamics for the modeling of 3D fracture
Elena Caraba
Title PhD, CS, 2014
Department Computational modeling and simulation of composite materials based on tomographic images
Helen M. Inglis
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Title PhD, ME, 2008
Department Multiscale modeling of the effect of debonding on the constitutive response of heterogeneous materials
Rajeev Jaiman
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Title PhD, AE, 2007
Department Accuracy and stability of transient multiphysics simulations
Soma Kandula
Title PhD, AE, 2008
Department Delamination of thin film patterns using laser-induced stress waves
Dhirendra Kubair
Title PhD, AE, 2001
Department Cohesive modeling of dynamic fracture: rate dependence and intersonic crack motion
Mohan Kulkarni
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Title PhD, AE, 2009
Department Multiscale cohesive modeling of heterogeneous adhesives
Spandan Maiti
Title PhD, AE, 2002
Department Grain-level simulation of dynamic failure in ceramic materials
Mohith Manjunath
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Title PhD, AE, 2014
Department Wave tailoring granular materials: effect of randomness and plane wave propagation
Ahmad R. Najafi
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Title PhD, TAM, 2016
Department Multiscale design of nonlinear materials using a shape optimization scheme based on an interface-enriched GFEM
Christopher M. Ostoich
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Title PhD, AE 2013
Department Multi-physics modeling of thermal/fluid/solid coupling in hypersonic vehicles
Raj Kumar Pal
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Title PhD, TAM, 2014
Department Wave tailoring in elastic and elasto-plastic granular systems
Zhu Qi
Title PhD, AE, 2000
Department Dimensional accuracy of thermoset polymer composites: Process simulation and optimization
Soheil Soghrati
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Title PhD, CEE, 2013
Department An interface-enriched generalized finite element method for the design of actively-cooled microvascular composites
Karthik Srinivasan
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Title PhD, AE, 2008
Department Thermomechanical meso-scale modeling of combustion of heterogeneous solid propellants
Fernando V. Stump
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Title PhD, TAM, 2013
Department Multiscale modeling of rate dependence and size effects on nanocrystalline metallic thin films
Mahesh M. Sucheendran
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Title PhD, AE, 2013
Department Structural/acoustic coupled analysis of thin-walled aerospace structures
Marcus H. Y. Tan
Title PhD, TAM, 2017
Department IGFEM-based modeling and design of microvascular composites with complex embedded networks
Phuong Tran
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Title PhD, TAM, 2010
Department Laser-induced delamination test protocol for thin films: modeling and experiments
Alumni M.S.
Jeff Baylor
Title MS, AE, 1997
Department A numerical simulation of impact-induced damage of composites
M. Scot Breitenfeld
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Title MS, AE, 1997
Department Simulations of dynamic failure of interfaces using a spectral method
Qi Dang
Title MS, AE, 2017
Department NURBS-based enriched finite element mesh generation for complex materials
Varma Dantuluri
Title MS, AE, 2004
Department Cohesive modeling of delamination in Z-pin reinforced composites
Michael Danyluk
Title MS, AE, 1996
Department Visco-elastodynamic fracture using a spectral method
Heath Dewey
Title MS, AE, 2006
Department Large-scale three-dimensional simulations of aeroelastic phenomena
Arjan Hegeman
Title MS, AE, 1997
Department Self-repairing polymers: repair mechanisms and micro-mechanical modeling
Soma Kandula
Title MS, AE, 2004
Department Cohesive modeling of fracture in functionally graded materials
Natarajan Kumar
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Title MS, AE, 2006
Department Genetic algorithm based reconstruction of periodic unit cells of random particulate composites
Sandhya Mangala
Title MS, AE, 2006
Department Dynamic fracture simulations with adaptive mesh modification in parallel framework
Parag Nittur
Title MS, AE, 2006
Department Mesoscale analysis of fragmentation of ceramics under dynamic multiaxial compression
Lale Ozhkaya
Title MS, AE, 2004
Department Flutter analysis of a single flap system under supersonic flow
Jay Patel
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Title MS, AE, 2009
Department Deterministic and stochastic analysis for debonding of fibrous composites using micromechanics modeling
Sri Krishna Potukuchi
Title MS, AE, 2015
Department Fracture analysis of carbon fiber/epoxy matrix interface through microbond and cruciform tests
Brad Roe
Title MS, AE, 2006
Department Coupled thermal simulations of fluid-structure problems
Premsainath C. Selvarasu
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Title MS, AE, 2011
Department Role of residual stresses and inelasticity on dynamic delamination of thin films
Kyle J. Smith
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Title MS, AE, 2009
Department Wave propagation in granular media
Jay Thomas
Title MS, AE, 2002
Department Multi-scale spectral/molecular dynamics simulation of dynamic fracture in brittle materials
Brett Wood
Title MS, AE, 1999
Department Aeroelastic simulations of a novel bleeding system for supersonic inlets
Scott Zacek
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Title MS, AE, 2017
Department Impact of microstructural statistics on the failure of unidirectional composites
Mario Zaczek
Title MS, AE, 2001
Department Adaptive cohesive volumetric finite element method for dynamic fracture simulations
Alumni Postdocs
Alejandro Aragón
Department Multi scale modeling of heterogeneous adhesives
Amnaya P. Awasthi
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Department Wave-tailoring granular media and molecular tailoring of interfaces
René Carpaij
Title Visiting scholar, EPFL, Switzerland
Department Transient intersonic motion of mode I cracks
Julien Hendrickx
Title Visiting scholar, UCL, Belgium
Department Dynamic failure of thin films
Changyu Hwang
Department Multi physics modeling of solid propellant rockets
Guoyu Lin
Department Cohesive modeling of fiber pushout in model composite
Spandan Maiti
Department Cohesive modeling of self-healing materials
Masoud Safdari
Department NURBS-based IGFEM, transverse failure of composites
Maryam Shakiba
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Department IGFEM modeling of transverse failure on fiber-reinforced composites
Damien Spielmann
Title Visiting scholar, EPFL, Switzerland
Department Spectral analysis of mode II crack front waves