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The Whiting School of Engineering and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences held their third annual Homewood Schools’ Doctoral Hooding Ceremony at Shriver Hall. The event took place on May 23rd, 2017 at 3:00 pm.  Shu Guo who completed his doctoral degree in Spring 2017 was hooded by Prof. Somnath Ghosh. Both Shu Guo and Prof. Ghosh adorned their respective academic regalia for this event. Shu has been a member of Prof. Ghosh’s Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL), since 2010 at Ohio State University. He later moved to Johns Hopkins University with Prof. Ghosh in 2011 to pursue his PhD in the Department of Civil Engineering. The title of his thesis is “A Coupled Multi-Physics Analysis Model for Integrating Transient Electro-Magnetics and Structural Dynamic Fields with Damage”.

This year’s Mach Conference was successfully held in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 5-7. Prof. Ghosh and three members of our CMRL team attended this meeting and presented their work. Jiahao Cheng, a postdoctoral researcher, gave an oral presentation entitled, “Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling of Discrete Twin Evolution in Polycrystalline Microstructure” at the Slip, Twins, and Voids in Low Symmetry Materials session.

Graduate student, Zhiye Li, gave an oral as well as a poster presentation of her work at the Transverse Impact of Ballistic Fibers, Yarns and Laminates session. The title of her presentation and poster is “Micromechanical space-time dependent boundary condition (STBC) and explicit homogenization of composites subjected to high strain rate impact”.

Our other graduate student, Xiaofan Zhang, also participated with an oral and poster presentation. His work entitled, “Parametric Homogenization Based Continuum Damage Mechanics Model for Composites”, was presented at the Modelling and Characterization of Fiber-Matrix Interphase session.

This annual conference showcases the state of the art of multiscale research in materials, with strong emphasis on promoting advances in fundamental science and engineering of materials and structures in extreme environments.

Dr. Yonggang Huang, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Nothwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, was the invited speaker for the CE-CISMMS co-sponsored Graduate Seminar on March 9th. The title of his talk was, ‘Mechanics-guided, Deterministic 3D Assembly’. During his visit he met several faculty members from the different departments of engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE). He concluded his visit by meeting members of the CMRL at the third floor of Latrobe Hall.

Prof. Ghosh is invited to speak at the Materials Science Seminar series at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The seminar will be held on March 16th, 2017. During his visit, Prof. Ghosh will be meeting with members of the Materials Science and Engineering team.

Dr. Pedro Ponte Castañeda, the Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow and Professor, at the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, at University of Pennsylvania, was the invited speaker for the CE-CISMMS co-sponsored Graduate Seminar on February 16th. The title of his talk was,’Nonlinear Composites Materials‘. During his visit he met several faculty members from the different departments of engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE). He concluded his visit by meeting members of the CMRL at the third floor of Latrobe Hall.