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Mechanical Engineering Department,
Opus College of Engineering,
Marquette University.
1515 W. Wisconsin Ave,
Milwaukee, WI - 53233.

Computational Mechanics of Materials Laboratory

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Multiscale Materials Modeling

Materials are intrinsically multiscale — deriving many of their structural properties from the presence, configuration, and arrangement of microscale features. Our research in multiscale materials works to understand this structure-property connection through detailed microscale models and to build modeling frameworks that pass this knowledge to materials and product designers.

Computational Fatigue

An estimated 80% of all structural failures are due to mechanical fatigue, often resulting in catastrophic, dangerous, and costly failure events. However, mechanistic and accurate models to predict the fatigue process remains an elusive goal. Our group strives to understand and model the multiscale and microstructure-sensitive nature of fatigue and steer the design of more fatigue resistant materials and devices.

Materials Failure under High Loading Rates

Under high loading rates, generally found in impacts and explosions, materials failure is complex and often difficult or expensive to characterize experimentally. We develop models to understand the failure mechanisms at these loading rates as well as efficiently predict the microstructure-sensitive materials behavior over a wide range of loading-rates, pressures, and stress-states.

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