Research
The materials and solid mechanics faculty in Mechanical Engineering are a diverse group of experimentalists, theoreticians and computational experts. We work on many cutting-edge problems, as well as some long-standing classical problems, drawn from materials physics (broadly defined), biology and automotive engineering.
Specialties
- Contact mechanics
- Thermoelasticity
- Elasticity theory
- Active materials and composites
- Fracture and failure mechanisms
- Computational mechanics
- Computational mechanics and dynamics
- Structural design optimization
- Modeling and simulation of nanostructures
- Fracture and fatigue of engineering materials
- Design of batteries