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.
Our annual CMRL group lunch was held at Namaste, an Indian/Nepalese restaurant in Baltimore. We celebrated our recent PhD graduates in the group, Shu Guo and Jiaxi Zhang, as well as the upcoming Masters defense by Zhiren Zhu. Good luck Zhiren!
In addition, our postdoctoral fellow, Yan Azdoud, who has been in CMRL since 2014, will be leaving us this year. During his stay, his work has resulted in 2 publications. We wish you all the best Yan!
Prof. Ghosh gave a speech to acknowledge all the hard work everyone has done over the years. He wished everyone continued success and support in their future undertaking.
Prof. Somnath Ghosh will be attending at the 14th International Conference on Fracture (ICF14) in Rhodes, Greece from June 18 to 23, 2017. He will be giving a lecture on June 20th, entitled, “Fatigue Modeling In Polycrystalline Alloys: Advancing Computational Mechanics and ICME Tools“, at the Recent Advances in Fatigue and Fracture Analysis session, chaired by Dr. Nagaraja Iyyer.
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!
Prof. Somnath Ghosh gave a keynote lecture at the EMI 2017 conference entitled, “Computational Framework Involving Spatial and Temporal Multi-Scaling for Coupled Transient Electromagnetics-Mechanical Phenomena” at the Computational Methods and Applications for Solid and Structural Mechanics Minisymposia session on Monday June 5th. This conference was held in San Diego, California, from June 4th to June 7th. Dr. Akbar Bagri (a postdoctoral fellow), and Shravan Kotha (a graduate student), two members of CMRL, also attended this conference. They both presented their work by giving an oral and a poster presentation.
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.
Prof. Somnath Ghosh is invited to speak at the AAE Spring Colloquium series at Purdue University on Thursday March 30th. The title of his seminar is ‘Spatial and Temporal Multiscale Models for Advancing the Integrated Computational Structure-Materials Engineering Initiative‘.
