active
NSF ERI
Mechanics of granular media
Particle-resolved and multifidelity modeling of granular assemblies whose particles deform, break and rearrange under load.
Fracture & failure
Projects
Projects
These projects address different physical systems, but they share a question: what physics and what resolution must a computational model retain to support reliable analysis and design? Ideas in multiscale modeling, interfaces, optimization and error control move from one problem to another.
Current 6
active
SDBOR CRG
Design of magnetic soft materials
Choosing where to put material and where to put magnetization, at the same time, so a soft structure moves the way a design problem asks it to.
Field-responsive materials
active
SDBOR CRG
Neural operators with error estimation and control
Residual-based estimation and correction of neural-operator error in forward simulation, Bayesian inference and topology optimization.
Reliable scientific AI
active
Failure and fatigue in magnetic soft materials
Magnetic soft composites are designed as if the particle–matrix interface were perfect. This project asks what changes when it is not, and whether that is what sets how long the material keeps working.
Field-responsive materials · Fracture & failure
active
Interface fracture in particle composites
Effective properties for a composite have to come from somewhere. This project derives them from resolved micro-scale fracture simulations, after first settling which description of the interface to trust.
Fracture & failure
active
Adhesion of field-responsive materials
A pull-off force is one number describing at least four different mechanisms. Separating them is what lets a measurement support a design rule that transfers, instead of one fitted curve.
Field-responsive materials
Earlier 3
past
Mathematical foundations of fracture
Well-posedness, kinetic relations and convergence rates for models of dynamic fracture, and the crack behavior they predict around voids, inclusions and interfaces.
Fracture & failure
past
Scalable solvers for computational mechanics
Parallel and asynchronous solvers, load balancing and distributed data structures for large mechanics and transport problems.
Fracture & failure
past
MD Anderson
Mixed-dimensional modeling of tumor growth and angiogenesis
A mixed-dimensional model of tumor growth in which an evolving one-dimensional vascular network carries blood and nutrients through three-dimensional tissue.