Research Projects

This page lists some of the current and recent research projects, together with the name of the researchers involved. For more information, please click on the link and/or consult the related publications.

MULTISCALE MODELING OF COMPLEX MATERIALS

• MULTISCALE MODELING OF MEMS FILMS (with Fernando Stump)

• MULTISCALE MODELING OF COMPOSITES (with Alejandro Aragón)

• HETEROGENOUS ADHESIVES (with Mohan Kulkarni)

• TRANSVERSE FAILURE OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS (with Scott Zacek, David Brandyberry, Dr. Masoud Safdari, Dr. Maryam Shakiba, Angel Agrawal)

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF MATERIALS

• MICROVASCULAR MATERIALS FOR ACTIVE COOLING (with Soheil Soghrati, Ahmad Najafi, Marcus Tan, Dr. Masoud Safdari)

• WAVE PROPAGATION IN GRANULAR MEDIA (with Raj Pal, Mohith Manjunath, Dr. Amnaya Awasthi)

• MULTI SCALE DESIGN OF NONLINEAR MATERIALS (with Ahmad Najafi, Dr. Masoud Safdari)
• COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND MULTISCALE DESIGN OF ELECTRETS (with David Brandyberry)

DEVELOPMENT OF NUMERICAL METHODS

• PERIDYNAMICS FOR SIMULATING FRACTURE (with M Scot Breitenfeld)

• IGFEM: INTERFACE-ENRICHED GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (with Soheil Soghrati, Ahmad Najafi, Marcus Tan, Dr. Masoud Safdari, Qi Dang, David Brandyberry, Dr. Maryam Shakiba)

• COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MATERIALS (with Kedi Zhang)

COUPLED FLUID/STRUCTURE MODELING

• COMPUTATIONAL AEROELASTICITY (with Rajeev Jaiman)

• AERO THERMO ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS (with Chris Ostoich, Mahesh Sucheendran)

LASER INDUCED SPALLATION AND DELAMINATION OF THIN FILMS

• LASER-INDUCED DELAMINATION OF THIN FILMS (with Soma Kandula, Phuong Tran, Premsainath Selvarasu)

• MOLECULAR TAILORING OF INTERFACE USING SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS (with Chen Zhang, Dr. Amnaya Awasthi)

SIMULATION OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

• MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIALS USING FRONTAL POLYMERIZATION (with Eyas Goli, Nathan Hibbard)

• RESIDUAL STRESS DEVELOPMENTS AND DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY OF THICK COMPOSITE COMPONENTS (with Qi Zhu)

DYNAMIC FRACTURE MECHANICS

• CRACK FRONT WAVES UNDER SUBSONIC AND INTERSONIC MODE II CONDITIONS (with Damien Spielmann, Fabian Barras)

• INTERSONIC MOTION OF MODE I CRACKS (with René Carpaij, Fabian Barras)