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Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
E.P. Schoch Professorship in Engineering

Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Office Location: W.R. Woolrich Laboratories (WRW)
Room 110C, Mail Code: C0600

Phone: (512) 471-4164

Email: kml@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

• Interfacial force microscopy
• Nano indentation of ultra thin films and self-assembled monolayers
• Mechanics of adhesion and friction
• Interfacial fracture mechanics
• Experimental mechanics
• Viscoelasticity
• Composite materials
• Microelectronics packaging

Dr. Liechti's research focuses on the deformation and failure mechanisms in multilayered materials and structures using a combination of experimental and numerical stress analytical techniques. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1982. He has two and a half years of industrial experience and has published more than 50 technical articles.  He is co-author of the book Mechanics of Materials with Marc Bedford.

His administrative assistant is Karon Selman and she can be reached at (512) 471-5963, karon@mail.utexas.edu.

For more detailed biographical information on Professor Liechti and his research interests visit MECH - SS&M and The Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials.