Research Interests
Modeling quasi-static and dynamic fracture of structural components, the evolution of interfaces with nonlinear constitutive laws, and developing models for stimulus-responsive hydrogels
Selected Grants
ACRR Fuel Performance Modeling
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sandia National Laboratories · 2022 - 2025Collaborative Research: Investigating Crack Nucleation and Growth Under Dynamic Fatigue: Application to Nano-Pulse Lithotripsy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025Computational Algorithms for Dynamic Fracture
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sandia National Laboratories · 2023 - 2024Plate Fuel Analysis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Idaho National Laboratory · 2023 - 2023Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2022 - 2023Computational Algorithms for Dynamic Fracture
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sandia National Laboratories · 2019 - 2023Collaborative Research: Wettability Control on the Mechanics of Hydrocapillary Fracture
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023An Integrated Experimental and Computational Investigation of Fragmentation in Transparent Polymers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2018 - 2022Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2021 - 2022Thermo-Mechanical Tire-Pavement Interaction: Computational Modeling and Field Measurements (ThermoSkid)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Khalifa University · 2020 - 2022Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2020 - 2021Modeling Fracture and Spallation of Oxide Scale on High Temperature Heat Exchangers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Idaho National Laboratory · 2021 - 2021Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Greensboro · 2019 - 2021Cohesive Phase Field Modeling of Fractures in Wellbore Cement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2019 - 2020Collaborative Research: Computational Mechanics Vision Workshop
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2020Computational Algorithms for Dynamic Fracture
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sandia National Laboratories · 2018 - 2019Computational Algorithms for Fragmentation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sandia National Laboratories · 2006 - 2019Computational Studies of Fracture Networks in Particulate Systems
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2018Fracture Integral Routines for X-FEM in MOOSE
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Idaho National Laboratory · 2015 - 2015Advanced Fracture Modeling for Nuclear Fuel
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Idaho National Laboratory · 2012 - 2015Transformative Skin: Controlled Electromechanical Instability on Polymer Surfaces
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 201512th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics Travel Grant
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2014Collaborative Research: Membrane Nanodomains--Prediction and Detection
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2013Reduced-volume Fracture Toughness Characterization for Transparent Polymers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2006 - 2012Numerical Methods for Material Systems with Microstructure: Addressing Structural Response and Multiscale Couplings
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2009 - 2012Attendees at the Robert J Melosh Medal Symposium
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2010Development of Distributed State Simulators
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2006 - 2009Computational Strategies for Phase Transitions Driven by Coupled Stress and Diffusion: Application to the Kinetics of Synthetic Hydrogels
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2005 - 2009New Numerical Methods for Transient Interaction of Structures with Fluids and Soils
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2006 - 2008Computational and Experimental Strategies for Investigating Failure in Emerging Soft-Wet Materials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2007Collaborative Research: Surface and Actuation Kinetics of Stimulus-Responsive Hydrogels
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2007WEAVE: Web-based Educational Framework for Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2002 - 2006The Robert J. Melosh Symposium in Finite Element Analysis
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2005Thermomechanical Investigations of High Speed Machining of Aluminum
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2002 - 2005Parallel Cluster for Multi-Scale Computation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2000 - 2003Towards Material Systems with Optimized Fracture Response
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2001 - 2002External Relationships
- Elsevier Inc.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
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