Jinlei Shen and Preetam Tarafder, both graduate students in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, recently were awarded first and second place in the EMI 2021: Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior Student Paper Competition.
Jinlei’s paper, titled “Microstructure-informed Fatigue Crack Nucleation Prediction for Dual Phase Ti-64 Alloys using Experimentally validated Parametrically Homogenized Constitutive Models,” received the award for first place. The paper showcases Jinlei’s work in developing the experimentally validated Parametrically Homogenized Constitutive Model (PHCM) and Parametrically Homogenized Crack Nucleation Model (PHCNM) to predict fatigue crack nucleation life in titanium alloys effectively.
Preetam’s paper, which took second place in the competition, is titled “A finite deformation cohesive zone enhanced phase field model for crack propagation in multi-phase microstructures.” It showcases his development of a model for simulating interfacial decohesion and crack evolution in multi-phase elastic materials undergoing finite deformation.
The competition was sponsored by the EMI Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior (MIMB) Committee. Winners were selected after all papers were reviewed by the committee and the authors of the top five papers gave presentations about their research in a special session at the 2021 EMI Conference.
The 2022 Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) conference will be hosted by the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering on May 31- June 3, 2022 in Baltimore.
James Guest, associate professor within the department, is the conference chair. Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the department, serves as co-chair.
The conference aims to bring together scholars from around the world to exchange and disseminate the most recent developments in engineering mechanics across wide-ranging fields related to the discipline of civil engineering understood in the broadest sense, including industry applications of engineering mechanics.
Created in October 2007, the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) replaced the former ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division. EMI is the premier interdisciplinary organization of engineering mechanics that promotes research and the application of scientific and mathematical principles to address existing and emerging engineering and societal issues.
The conference is currently accepting abstracts until January 15, 2022. Submit an abstract here.