Category: Group News

Congratulations to Prof. Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor, who received the ICCM 2018 Investigator Medal from the International Conference on Computational Methods in Rome Italy on August 6, 2018.

According to the conference committee, the Medal is presented to honor up to one individual who has made outstanding and sustained contributions in the general field of computational methods over a substantial period of professional career and has shown leadership through contributions in promoting computational methods activities. This is the highest award of ICCM.

Link to Civil Engineering article

Congratulations to Subhendu Chakraborty! He won the third prize for his poster at the the 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2018, New York City, NY. Subhendu joined CMRL in 2013 and is a graduate student from the department of Mechanical Engineering.

Akbar Bagri has completed his Postdoctoral studies at CMRL (Oct 2015 – Aug 2018) and has moved to GE Global Research Center.

CMRL congratulates Akbar Bagri and wishes him the best of luck.

Ahmad Shahba has completed his PhD dissertation titled “Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Simulation of Deformation and Fracture in Polycrystalline Microstructures” in 2018 and has joined Technical Data Analysis, Inc.

CMRL congratulates Ahmad and wishes him the best of luck.

Z Li has completed his PhD dissertation titled “Micromechanical Studies of Glass Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Matrix Composites Undergoing Deformation and Damage at High Strain Rates” and has moved to Stanford to pursue his Postdoctoral studies.

CMRL congratulates Z Li and wishes him the best of luck.

Yaghmaie has completed his PhD, dissertation titled “Multi-Physics Computational Framework For Coupled Electric, Magnetic and Mechanical Systems Using Wavelet Transformation based Multi Time Scaling (WATMUS)” and has joined OnScale.

CMRL wishes Yaghmaie the best of luck.

Jiahao Cheng has completed his Postdoctoral studies in CMRL and has joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in August 2018. At CMRL, Cheng has been working on virtual microstructure reconstruction, phase field fracture theory, multi-time and multi-spatial scale fatigue simulation, micromechanics-based constitutive modeling, homogenization, and non-linear and non-local numerical simulations. In his new position, will be working on meso-and micro-scale modeling of the mechanics of metallic material.

CMRL wishes Cheng the best of luck.

Northwestern University hosted 18th US National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics June 6-8, 2018. Post-Doctoral Fellow Reza Yaghmaie presents his research on: Two-Scale Wavelet Transformation Based Multi-Time Scale (WATMUS) Method For Simulating Coupled Transient Electro-Mechanical Fields With Evolving Damage

The Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference was held at MIT  from May 29-June 1, 2018.

Max Pinz presented “A Novel Framework for Multiscale Modeling of Ni Based Superalloys Using a Physics Based, Machine Learning Informed Constitutive Law”. Deniz Ozturk gave a presentation on “Multiscale Modeling of Fatigue Crack Initiation in Poly-crystalline Titanium Alloys”.