Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Linda & Ralph Schmidt ‘68 Professor
Chair, Faculty Mentoring and Success, Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering Faculty Ombudsperson
Research Interests
Analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches in areas of structural and computational mechanics, i.e. nonlinear and time dependent constitutive material modeling, thermal stress analysis, contact and damage modeling, delamination crack growth in laminated composites, micromechanics of composite materials and structures, multi-scale material modeling, modeling nanoindentation tests, large-scale nonlinear structural analysis, numerical and finite element modeling, neural network simulations in engineering.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Linda & Ralph Schmidt ‘68 Professor
Chair, Faculty Mentoring and Success, Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering Faculty Ombudsperson
Research Interests
Analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches in areas of structural and computational mechanics, i.e. nonlinear and time dependent constitutive material modeling, thermal stress analysis, contact and damage modeling, delamination crack growth in laminated composites, micromechanics of composite materials and structures, multi-scale material modeling, modeling nanoindentation tests, large-scale nonlinear structural analysis, numerical and finite element modeling, neural network simulations in engineering.