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This area involves study and research in mechanics of composite materials, fracture mechanics, nano and micromechanics of materials, constitutive equations, mechanical behavior at high strain rates, structural analysis, and structural stability. Experimental facilities include equipment for static structural testing; digital data acquisition equipment; uniaxial and biaxial materials-testing machines; custom loading devices; environmental chambers; microscopes; photomechanics facilities; composites processing equipment; facilities for microstructural analysis; and high-speed imaging and high strain rate mechanical testing facilities. Equipment for nano and microscale scale experiments include an atomic force microscope, an interfacial force microscope, a nano indentor, a confocal microscope and an X-ray tomography device. Computing facilities include workstations, high-performance computers, and networks of workstations.

Faculty:

Rui Huang:

• Evolving material structures of small feature sizes
• Mechanics in micro- and nanofabrication
• Mechanics and materials in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
• Computational methods (finite element, finite difference, spectral method, etc.)

Stelios Kyriakides:

• Instability in Solids and Structures (Plastic Buckling of Structures, Propagating Instabilities in Shape Memory Metals, Composites, Foams)
• Modeling of Nonlinear Behavior and Failure of Solids (Metals, Composites, Foams)

Kenneth Liechti:

• Delamination Fracture Mechanics
• Adhesive Bonding and Composite Materials
• Microelectronics Packaging
• Mark Mear:
• Micromechanics
• Fracture Mechanics
• Boundary Element Methods

Mark Mear:

• Micromechanics
• Fracture Mechanics
• Boundary Element Methods

K. Ravi-Chandar:

• Mechanical Behavior of Materials at High Strain Rates
• Fracture in Nominally Brittle Materials
• Shear Banding in Polymeric Materials
• Phase Transformation in Shape Memory Alloys

Gregory Rodin:

• Fast Algorithms for Composite Materials
• Mechanics of Ice
• Creep Deformation and Fracture
  

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