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Congratulations to Somnath Ghosh, the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, who will receive the 2020 Computational Mechanics Award from the International Association for Computational Mechanics  (IACM)!

The IACM Computational Mechanics Award is given primarily for contributions to traditional areas such as computational structural/solid mechanics, or computational fluid dynamics. It is also given to recognize contributions outside these specific areas in recognition of accomplishments in software development, scientific computing, research contributions in computational electromagnetics, semi-conductor device simulation, biomechanics or other areas that are not traditionally embraced by computational structural/solid mechanics or computational fluid dynamics, but which have general applicability to computational mechanics. Ghosh will be officially recognized at IACM’s World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Paris in mid-July 2020.

Link to Civil and Systems Engineering article

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.

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.

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.