After completing his Masters degree this August, with his thesis, “Computational Analysis of Piezoelectric Systems Using a Coupled Multiphysics Finite Element Model“, Zhiren has joined Berkel and Company in Silver Spring, Maryland, as a junior foundation engineer.
Congratulations to George Weber! He won first prize for his poster at the 14th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM14) in Montreal, Canada. George joined CMRL in 2013 and is a graduate student from the department of Mechanical Engineering. His work is supported through the Center of Excellence on Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM) at JHU.
The title of his poster is ‘An image based finite element model for Ni-based superalloys using a two scale constitutive model accounting for morphological distributions of γ’ precipitates’ . Well done!
Prof. Somnath Ghosh will give a keynote lecture at the USNCCM14 conference entitled, “Computational framework involving spatial and temporal multi-scaling for coupled transient electromagnetics-mechanical phenomena” at the Multiphysics Computation and Coupled Effects minisymposia session on Wednesday July 19th. This conference is held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, QC, Canada, from July 17th to July 20th. Two other members of CMRL, Deniz Oztürk and George Weber, both PhD students, will be presenting their work at this meeting.
Congratulations to Jiaxi Zhang! He successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Developing a Crack Propagation Model in the Metallic Materials from Self-Consistent Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Model” on Friday June 9th, 2017. Members of his thesis committee included, Prof. Somnath Ghosh, his thesis advisor, Prof. Benjamin Schafer, Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Prof. Jaafar El-Awady and Prof. Mark Robbins.
Jiaxi 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. He is the final member of the Ohio State University students that follow Prof. Ghosh to Johns Hopkins University, to complete his doctoral degree, following his colleagues, Coleman Alleman, Jiahao Cheng and Shu Guo. We wish him all the best!
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.
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.
Congratulations to Dr. Somnath Ghosh, the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the department of Civil Engineering. He will receive the 2017 TMS Structural Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer award. Dr. Ghosh is the Director of the Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL), the Center of Excellence on Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM) and the Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulations (CISMMS).
This Minerals, Metals and Materials Society award recognizes an individual who has made a long-lasting contribution to the fundamental understanding of microstructure, properties, and performance of structural materials for industrial applications. The ceremony will take place in late February 2017 at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
