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Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Fluids
Mechanics has had a rich history in defining, inspiring, and enabling innovation in many scientific and technological fields. Because it provides a common rigorous foundation for numerous science and engineering disciplines, its imprint can be found in numerous critical bodies of knowledge that attempt to understand, predict, and affect the world around us. The future opportunities for the advancement and application of mechanics are limitless. Quoting academician G.I. Barenblatt, solid mechanics is “an age old science perpetually in rebirth”. The department's Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Fluids group focuses on the development and application of fundamental concepts in mechanics as they pertain to the solution of challenging new problems in diverse areas such as materials science, biomechanics, geoengineering, structural engineering, micro and nanotechnology, and earth and atmospheric sciences. The core group, together with its affiliated members, embodies a world-class expertise in theoretical, experimental and computational mechanics that puts it in a unique position to tackle exciting new applications with an uncompromising rigor and quality.
Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Fluids faculty
- Roberto Ballarini
(solid and structural mechanics: elasticity, fracture and fatigue, composites, micro and nano technology)
- Peter Cundall, adjunct professor (geomechanics and numerical modeling)
- Steven Crouch (boundary element methods, geomechanics, and composite materials)
- Emmanuel Detournay (geomechanics, poromechanics, mechanics of fluid-driven fracture, and drilling mechanics)
- Andrew Drescher
- Efi Foufoula (statistical mechanics, scale-invariance, and renormalization)
- Bojan Guzina (geomechanics, wave propagation, and inverse methods)
- Kimberly Hill (granular materials, pattern formation, particle-laden flows, sediment
transport, and mechanics of pavement materials)
- Miki Hondzo
- Joseph Labuz
- Sonia Mogilevskaya (computational mechanics, boundary element method, fracture mechanics, and mechanics of composite materials)
- Fernando Porté-Agel
- Fotis Sotiropoulos
- Henryk Stolarski (structural mechanics, large deformation inelastic problems, and numerical methods in mechanics)
- Otto Strack
- Vaughan Voller (computational mechanics, free and moving boundaries, crystal growth, and
mechanics of earth surface processes)
- Steve Wojtkiewicz (structural dynamics and optimization, stochastic mechanics, and uncertainty quantification)
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